The Valletta Awards

On Saturday evening the Africa Mercy hosted the first ever Valletta Film Awards (named after Valletta, our port of registration in Malta). Over the last few weeks, crew have made short films and 11 were shown to a packed International Lounge and a panel of judges which included me. I have never laughed so much in my laugh - my face was aching for hours. Some of our younger adults are very gifted, imaginative and bold enough to make themselves look really silly in front of the camera - one of the winning films was a comedy about an orange eating competition between two girls; another was about the ship's Crew Services Department and their Dust-Busters vacuum back-packs; and the third was an animated stick man who danced to "Y M C A" and "The Can-can"...Each of the winners received a spectacular Valletta Award made by our very own master craftsman. Photo, left to right, of Bates (winner of the award for Animation); Emily & Emily (winners of the short comedy about orange eating) and Timon (winner of the "Dust Busters" comedy), all holding their very nice awards. Olly