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A Man And His Machine is a short documentary which was an entire solo project, with the exception of my subject matter, Marlon Maidment. I filmed this documentary while doing an exchange at Columbia College in Chicago, USA. It premiered at BIFA qualifying festival Kino London Film Festival.
Submitted 22 October 2026 by Tegan Howard.
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42 festivals, funds and schemes worth this film.
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Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize (Glasgow Short Film Festival)
checked 28 Oct 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 22 days · 24 November 2026
Manchester Film Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 25 days · 27 November 2026
Open City Documentary Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - CompetitionFree to entercloses in 43 days · 15 December 2026
Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source
Filtered by the film's length and ordered by deadline; every row carries the date we checked it and where. The film is public here, so the ones that want a premiere are marked. The festival plan says how to run the year.
The scorecard
A solo-shot documentary portrait with intimate close-ups, let down by a synopsis with no sense of what's at stake.
- Storynot read
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- Pictureworks
Close, handheld framing on the subject's face reads as intentional and intimate, though the low light flattens detail in the headphone and wardrobe shots.
- Wordsnot read
Not read: no caption transcript was provided, so nothing said by the subject or any narration could be assessed.
- Worldgetting there
Frames show a dim room, a clothes rack and a CCTV-style insert, enough to suggest a textured life but too fragmentary to judge if the world convinces.
- Voicegetting there
The split-screen CCTV frame against a talking head hints at a formal choice, but with no transcript or story context it is not clear what idea it serves.
I read the synopsis and the three published frames; no transcript was available, so dialogue, narration and the shape of the story could not be assessed. Read 2 November 2026. How the scorecard works
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