The Phone Call

Mat Kirkby’s short film, The Phone Call, won the Best Narrative Short prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and is rumored to be in the running for an Oscar nomination. It features a young woman who works in helpline call office (Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins) taking a call from a distraught man (Oscar winner Jim Broadbent). (via slate)

Update: The video has been taken down from Vimeo, so I’ve removed the embed. I think it was something about film festival eligibility?

Update: The Phone Call did end up being nominated for an Oscar; here’s Kirkby and friends reacting to the nomination.

• crying at work
• Jim Broadbent
• Mat Kirkby
• Sally Hawkins
• video