Julia Shalimova was the overall winner and also picked up the accolade for best Shakespeare-themed animation in Shakespeare Shorts, an annual short film competition organised by the Stratford-based Shakespeare Birthday Trust.
Kenneth Branagh who judged the contest said of her film Romeo and Juliet?, "in a wildly impressive competition where there really shouldn’t be any winners, this film just about nabs the glittering prize.
“It is witty, imaginative and subversive. It puts a smile on your face, encourages you to believe that you will know what happens next, and how this treatment will present it, and then it really surprises you by doing things differently.
“Perhaps its major achievement is to make Shakespeare seem such fun. A small, perfectly formed gem."
There were almost 200 entries for the competition. Keeghan vanderWater was the winner in the best interpretation of a passage from Shakespeare category for his film Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Horatio while Steven Fox’s Out Spot! was voted best film inspired by Shakespeare.