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Aevolum Cinema Presents to reveal Cornered at Leatherhead Theatre

Aevolum Cinema Presents returns to The Leatherhead Theatre on the 30th September with Cornered, the latest evening in its touring programme celebrating a new wave of independent short filmmaking. Thousands of award winning short films are made around the world every year. Many are recognised by BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festival juries, yet after their festival runs, they quietly disappear. They are not on Netflix, they are rarely shown in cinemas, and they are seldom broadcast elsewhere. Aevolum Cinema Presents was created to help close that gap. The touring short film programme brings award winning independent films to local audiences across the UK, screening them in historic theatres, country house hotels and acclaimed arts centres. The aim is simple, to bring these films into real rooms and connect them with real audiences. The Leatherhead Theatre hosted the programme's premiere on 30 June 2026, with the opening evening, The Choices That Shape Us. The September return introduces a new theme and four new films to the same stage. Cornered brings together four festival winning shorts from a new generation of independent filmmakers, each working with complete creative freedom and without a commercial brief. The programme features Pay Back by Steve Ramsden from the UK, which has won three international awards, including Best Thriller at Venice Shorts and Best Thriller Short at the LA Indie Short Fest. Also screening is Ma Prison by Kitty Harper from the UK, a five time award winner including Best Short Film at the Mindfield Film Festival in Albuquerque and Best Score at the Midlands Movies Awards.  Five and a Half by Heidi Nyburg from the USA has received eight international awards, including Best Director at the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series. Completing the programme is Domino Springs by Dan Hertzog from the USA, which has received 52 international awards across 26 festivals. Together, the four films have been recognised across three continents. Without programmes such as Aevolum Cinema Presents, these films might otherwise never reach audiences in the UK beyond the festival circuit. There is a growing group of talented independent filmmakers creating bold and uncompromising work, often without financial backing and while facing major challenges in getting their films made. Aevolum founder Natalie Bark says the company exists to give these filmmakers a platform and to bring films already recognised by festival juries around the world into venues where audiences can discover them.

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