Bibliographic record
Abstract
The film was commissioned by Short Circuit, Screen Scotland & the BFI Network as part of their Scottish Short 2023 scheme. Directed by Eubha Akilade and Cinematography by Andrew O'Connor. On her first day at a high school in rural Scotland, a London teenager is targeted for her afro hair by the class clown and must harness her inner power. The film subtly explores the emotional and psychological toll that institutional racism can take on individuals, especially in environments where people of marginalized races are pressured to conform to dominant cultural standards. In this way, the film critiques how these societal structures impose limitations on self-expression, autonomy, and the ability to define one's own identity.Blackwool premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in 2023 being the first Scottish short film to do so. It had a successfully Festival run and was the winner of the BAFTA Scotland - Best short film award in 2024. It also received a Vimeo staff pick which helped to bring the film to a wider audience. Festival Selections and AwardsWORLD PREMIERE - TriBeCa Film Festival 2023 UK PREMIERE - Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023EUROPEAN PREMIERE - Dinard Festival du Film Britannique 2023Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024 - Awarded Special Mention Bolton Film Festival 2023 New York Indie Shorts Awards 2023 - Semi-finalist Cannes Indie Shorts Awards 2023 - Semi-finalist HB Film Festival 2024 - WINNER: Best Film & Best Female Lead PerformanceToronto Black Film Festival 2023 Mirada Corta Film Festival 2023 - Semi-finalist Halifax Black Film Festival 2023 Short Encounters International Film Festival 2024 - Award winner, Best EditingVenezia Shorts Italy 2023The Norweigan Short Film Festival 2024 Women X Film Festival 2024 - Award nominee, Best British Film & Best Lead Performance
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".