Celebrity judging panel announced

We are pleased to announce that the first name on our highly-anticipated celebrity judging panel is the award-winning stage and film actor Kevin Spacey.

Kevin told us: "This competition will provide a terrific opportunity for emerging talent to find a shop window for their work and it's great that Virgin Media is supporting British film in this way. I'm sure that we’re going to see some great short films and I’m excited for the judging process to begin."

Joining Kevin on the judging panel is a wide mix of well-established talent from across the world of film and entertainment; Oscar-nominated short film director Daniel Barber,  Founder and chairman of the Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson, Head of the New Cinema Fund of the UK Film Council Lenny Crooks and Virgin Media’s CEO of Content Malcolm Wall.

These names are the first to be announced but fear not we have more big-name British film talent on the judging panel to be revealed very soon…