Kate Bush<\/a> has set out her stalls as a filmmaker by winning a prize for her directorial debut. <\/p>\n\n\tThe \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d legend won the animation award on Thursday for her anti-war short film \u201cLittle Shrew\u201d at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in Wales, which also happens to be a BAFTA-qualifying event. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe film \u2014\u00a0inspired by the war in Ukraine \u2014\u00a0is set to Bush\u2019s song \u201cSnowflake\u201d from her 2011 album \u201cFifty Words for Snow\u201d and features a small mammal searching for hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHow wonderful! \u2018Little Shrew\u2019 is incredibly excited that she\u2019s been awarded such a huge honour,\u201d said Bush. \u201cThank you so very much from her, myself and all the team. We are over the moon!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBush wrote and directed the animated black-and-white film, storyboarded from her own sketches and illustrations by\u00a0Jim Kay,\u00a0to help raise money for children impacted by war via the charity War Child.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe singer recently enjoyed a huge resurgence when her song \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d was featured in Season 4 of Netflix\u2019s \u201cStranger Things,\u201d reaching number one in the U.K. and several other countries, making Bush the oldest female artist to achieve a U.K. No. 1. The song went on to surpass 1.5 billion streams on Spotify, over fifty years since Bush signed her first record deal.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther winners at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival included Anthony D\u2019Ambrosio\u2019s \u201cTriumph of the Heart,\u201d which took the Feature Film prize, while Aaron Wheeler\u2019s \u201cThe Edge of Existence\u201d claimed the Feature Documentary award. Ian Puleston-Davies earned the Short Film Made in Wales honour for \u201cBox of Frogs\u201d and the Rising Star Award went to Isaac Thornton and Danny Taylor for \u201cThe Cards We\u2019re Dealt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u200b\u201dWhat an incredible year it has been for the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival,\u201d said festival creative prroducer Stifyn Parri. \u201cThis year\u2019s success has been beyond anything I could have imagined\u2014most notably because a lifelong inspiration of mine, Kate Bush, shared her remarkable work with us by entering her film.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved music icon, Brit Award winner, Grammy nominee and now \u2026 award-winning film director. Kate Bush has set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,161468,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-439008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-bush","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}