The BBC has selected Rob Brown and his micro movie Dermo Sluchaetsa (Shit Happens) for the prestigious BBC New Film Maker Award 2007.

The micro short film is a darkly comic short film that aims to summarise the human condition in 90 seconds.  Rob Brown graduated from Leeds Met Film School in 2005.  In Summer 2005 Rob Brown wrote and directed ‘Family Portrait’, a short film about a terrified mother who calls 999 when her estranged husband turns up on their driveway with a gun, which was nominated for the BBC New Filmmakers Awards 2005 and was broadcast on BBC TV in March 2003.

Family Portrait later gathered many other award nominations including the ‘Newcomer’ Award at Soho Shorts 2006 and NPA Short Film Awards before finally being chosen by renowned Film Critic and Broadcaster Mark Kermode as winner of ‘Best Drama’ at the BBC Big Screen Awards 2006.

Since then Rob Brown has been working with White Lantern on several films including ‘Dermo Sluchaetsa’, ‘Dark Room’ and ‘Madame Patch’- a stop motion animation about how panda’s aren’t as cute and innocent as they would like us to think.

The winner of the award will be announced at the Brief Encounters Film Festival in November.