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The High Road is a product of over a year of hard work by myself and fellow Salford undergraduates. It is the final year undergraduate short film of which I wrote and assistant directed. Since making this film, it has won 'outstanding screenplay,' at the Salford Media Awards, and has been show in both BIFA and BAFTA qualifying film festivals.
Submitted 22 October 2026 by Tegan Howard.
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42 festivals, funds and schemes worth this film.
- Competitioncloses in 11 days · 13 November 2026
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 road trip drama with two women boxed into a car, shot with a clean, symmetrical eye; the plot itself stays off-screen.
- Storynot read
Not read: the synopsis gives only production background, no account of who wants what or how it ends.
- Picturestrong
The frontal car shot is precisely composed, symmetrical, with a van's worth of boxes as a clear visual cue; the profile close-ups use light well against flat sky.
- Wordsnot read
Not read: no transcript, so the dialogue or narration was not seen.
- Worldworks
The packed car and the warm, cluttered bar in the fourth frame suggest a lived-in, specific world, though only glimpsed.
- Voicegetting there
The dead-on symmetrical car framing is a deliberate choice, but with no story or dialogue to read, a distinct point of view is hard to confirm from frames alone.
I read the one-paragraph production synopsis and looked at the four published frames; no transcript or caption track was available, so story and dialogue could not be judged. Read 2 November 2026. How the scorecard works
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