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Sep 15, 2025 | News

Little Dude Films’ produced short film, From Mother, With Love, continues its highly successful film festival run by winning the Best Comedy Award at this year’s 30th Portobello Film Festival.

Little Dude Films’ director and the film’s producer, Ian Beaumont attended The Portobello Film Festival Awards Ceremony on 14th September 2025 and spoke on behalf of the film after the Best Comedy Award was announced. From Mother, With Love is directed by Gabi Wood and written by Mark A.C. Brown.

Below is a photograph of Ian with Festival organiser, Jonathan Barnett after the awards ceremony.

This win completes a hat-trick of successes for Little Dude Films at The Portobello Film Festival. In previous years, we have won Best Drama awards in the Festival for two other short films we respectively produced and executive produced: Shades of Beige, starring Michelle Dockery and Drift, both of which were written and directed by Aimee Powell.

Please watch this space for more film festival news for From Mother, With Love.

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