The Funny Women Team has worked day and night watching 100’s of Comedy Shorts over the last few months to bring the list of videos down to 20. Here is our longlist including an exceptionally high standard of videos. The longlist represents a variety of eclectic comedy genres. Faced with the ongoing challenge of creating, producing, and directing video shorts for the majority of the last three years, it was truly heartening to see how many of our entrants had produced such brilliantly original content.
Without further ado, our longlist for 2022:
| Short Title | Writer | Region |
|---|---|---|
| PMS: Premenstral Superhearing | Caterina Incisa | Greater London |
| Dispel | Charlie Baker | Greater London |
| Becoming A Karen | Chess Tomlinson | Newcastle |
| Silent Love | Denise Moreno | Greater London |
| The Work Place | Devin Thomas | USA |
| Cars Schmars | Ella Gonzales | London |
| Tea Time | Emily Brown | East of England |
| Body Positivity Women | Eryn Tett | Manchester |
| The Beautiful Game – Thick ‘n’ Fast | Georgina Thomas/Cassie Symes | East of England |
| The Plan | Gigi Burgdorf | Greater London |
| Women’s History Sketch | Imogen Bole | Greater London |
| World’s Worst Therapist? | Jenna Wimshurst | South East |
| Creative Writing | Lorelei Mathias | Brighton |
| My Entertainment Badge | Lorna Rose Treen | Greater London |
| Bidentity Crisis | Nayonica Ghosh | Leicester |
| What is it like being white? | Sapphire McIntosh | Greater London |
| New Mum’s New Toy | Sarah Grant / Katrina Allen | Glasgow |
| OnlyFran | Sarah Roberts | Greater London |
| Lostmin: The World is not your oyster, from “Life in ADHD” | Tristan Alice Nieto | Greater London |
| Great Aunty Ji Expectations | Zara Janjua | Greater London |
Prizes for the 2022 Comedy Shorts Award supported by LSFF include
Exclusive Screening as part of the London Short Film Festival
A cash prize of £1000
Mentorship and Support from Funny Women, our Industry Partners and our Community
A custom made Tatty Devine necklace trophy
Judging continues until we reach our Shortlist of 10 films. The shortlist will be announced via the website, social media and emails to the successful entrants on the 25th August 2021.
The winner will be announced at the Funny Women Stage Award final on the 29th September at Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
Longlist for Comedy Writing Award sponsored by Sky Studios HERE
Semi finalists for Stage Award sponsored by NextUp… HERE
