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17/12/2025

And the award for Best VFX at Birmingham Horror Film Festival goes to SNARE! Big congratulations to our VFX Artists Benedict Jewer, Simon Edwards, Haixin Dang and Antonio Pavlov!

If you have already seen the film, you will recognise this beautiful deer. What you may not know is the process behind creating this creature, achieved by the wonderful Benedict Jewer! See here a breakdown of some of the fantastic VFX work that has gone into the film.

He tells us a bit about the challenges of achieving such shots: “The hardest part of any VFX shot is making sure that the CG elements feel integrated into the scene, through lighting, compositing, and interaction with the environment. We spent a lot of time finessing the deer as it was an integral part of the story and needed to be believable when seen alongside the actors.”

Stay tuned for more BTS and VFX breakdowns to come…

The CT Team

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SNARE has excitingly also picked up awards for Best Director: Short film (Sam Blakeney-Edwards) and Grand Prix: Short Fi...
05/12/2025

SNARE has excitingly also picked up awards for Best Director: Short film (Sam Blakeney-Edwards) and Grand Prix: Short Film at the London Film and Horror Awards 2025!

Knowing that our film and cast & crew’s work is being recognised and appreciated at a multitude of festivals with different publics and judges is always incredibly fulfilling. We are very happy to once more be celebrating the craftsmanship and work that went into this production. Congratulations again to everyone involved!

The CT Team

Starring:
Kit Clarke
Jay Villiers
Phoebe Sparrow
Lisa Garvey

Written and Directed by: Sam Blakeney-Edwards

Produced by: Louis Taylor-Baggs

DOP: Aaron Medway
1st ACs: Lucas Blake & Ben Jesse
2nd AC: Niall Enright & Alessio Morreale
Steadicam Op: Luke Oliver
Camera trainee: Eric Iverson .sdiversen

Unit/BTS stills by: Diane Pognan .photo & Ben White

Sound Recording by: David Erwood

MUAH/MFX: Josie Mullins & Rebecca Birch

Prop Master: Jake Brown

Stunts: Will Dent

Edited by: Phil Whitehead

Sound design by: George Castle
Fred Pearson

Dialogue Editor: Rachel Scott

Composer: Ben Pearson

VFX Artists: Ben Jewer
Simon Edwards

Colourist: Matt Stevenson

Set PA: Theo Jesson

Celebrating our Best Short Film and Best Director (Sam Blakeney-Edwards) wins for SNARE at Birmingham Horror Film Festiv...
28/11/2025

Celebrating our Best Short Film and Best Director (Sam Blakeney-Edwards) wins for SNARE at Birmingham Horror Film Festival with some sneaky BTS shots!

We cannot thank our talented cast and crew enough for the achievements on this one. SNARE was shot across two weekends in October a couple of years ago and what a fantastic journey it’s been.

Our team has worked very hard across the whole process, and there was always smiles all round.

Congratulations everyone!

The CT team

Starring:
Kit Clarke
Jay Villiers
Phoebe Sparrow

Written and Directed by: Sam Blakeney-Edwards

Produced by: Louis Taylor-Baggs

DOP: Aaron Medway
1st ACs: Lucas Blake & Ben Jesse
2nd AC: Niall Enright & Alessio Morreale
Steadicam Op: Luke Oliver
Camera trainee: Eric Iverson .sdiversen

Photography by: Diane Pognan .photo & Ben White

Sound Recording by: David Erwood

MUAH/MFX: Josie Mullins & Rebecca Birch

Prop Master: Jake Brown

Stunts: Will Dent

Edited by: Phil Whitehead

Sound design by: George Castle
Fred Pearson

Dialogue Editor: Rachel Scott

Composer: Ben Pearson

VFX Artists: Ben Jewer
Simon Edwards

Colourist: Matt Stevenson

Set PA: Theo Jesson

13/11/2025

The very talented Phoebe Sparrow has taken home the award for Best Actress: Short Film for her role as Harriet in SNARE at the Dead Northern Horror Film Festival 2025!

Well deserved, we are celebrating this win with a big congratulations to Phoebe and a snippet of her deeply affecting performance in this role.

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The CT Team

Incredibly thrilled to announce that SNARE has been officially selected for the Los Angeles International Horror Film Fe...
29/10/2025

Incredibly thrilled to announce that SNARE has been officially selected for the Los Angeles International Horror Film Festival 2025! The festival takes place from October 30th - November 1st, see more details at the link in our bio.

Stay tuned for what’s next…!

The CT Team

Another super exciting announcement - SNARE has been selected for this year’s Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival whi...
24/10/2025

Another super exciting announcement - SNARE has been selected for this year’s Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival which takes place from 27th October - 2nd November in Islington, London!

SNARE will be screening at 5pm on the 2nd of November, so we hope to see you there! Link to festival tickets can be found in our bio.

See you in November…

The CT Team

Great news! If you’re in London and haven’t caught our short film SNARE yet, you still have time - we have been official...
19/10/2025

Great news! If you’re in London and haven’t caught our short film SNARE yet, you still have time - we have been officially selected for the London Film and Horror Film Awards 2025!

The screening will take place on October 26th at Peckhamplex SE15 4ST from 6-10pm. Find tickets at the link in our bio, we hope to see you there…



The CT Team

We are very thrilled to share with everyone that SNARE has not only been selected but is also nominated for an award at ...
08/10/2025

We are very thrilled to share with everyone that SNARE has not only been selected but is also nominated for an award at the Birmingham Horror Film Festival taking place on the 10th-11th October 2025!

SNARE will be screening on the 11th as part of Block 3 from 14:45-16:45. Find a link to the festival in our bio.

More to follow…

The CT Team

Another very exciting announcement: SNARE has been officially selected for the monthly Short to the Point ISFF Awards! A...
02/10/2025

Another very exciting announcement: SNARE has been officially selected for the monthly Short to the Point ISFF Awards!

As always it’s a pleasure to be selected and big love to the incredible cast and crew for all of their work and to for recognising it.

Stay tuned for more…

The CT Team

We are very proud to announce that SNARE has been selected as part of the Dead Northern 2025 film festival based in York...
22/08/2025

We are very proud to announce that SNARE has been selected as part of the Dead Northern 2025 film festival based in York, U.K!

The festival will take place from September 26th - 28th, with Snare screening on the 27th at 10:30am as part of the Flesh & Bone short film showcase. Come find us there!

Ticket link in our bio.

Stay tuned…

- the CT Team

We are very excited to share that Snare, our latest folk horror short film directed by Sam Blakeney-Edwards  is official...
02/08/2025

We are very excited to share that Snare, our latest folk horror short film directed by Sam Blakeney-Edwards is officially complete!!

Snare now begins the next stage, hitting the global festival circuit.
With that, we are now proud to announce that Snare is part of the official selection for 2025 Film Festival based in Florida!

Find us mentioned as part of this year’s most fantastic international short films in the amazing ‘Bloody Disgusting’ article by Meagan Navarro.

Along with a virtual program announcement for Popcorn Frights film festival announced by .

Link to watch our film during the festival will be valid in USA only, and can be found in our bio!

We will be back with more…

Human. Nature.

- the CT team

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