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Guardian reveals winners of inaugural GuardianWitness Awards

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By Ishbel Macleod, PR and social media consultant

March 28, 2014 | 2 min read

GuardianWitness has celebrated its first year by announcing the winners of the inaugural GuardianWitness Awards, with winners announced across nine categories.

GuardianWitness is the Guardian's user-generated content platform, which launched in April 2013 in partnership with digital communications company EE.

Clare Margetson, the Guardian's network editor and chair of the awards judging panel, said: "The overall winner demonstrates a fantastically exciting way of using GuardianWitness.

"This was about creativity rather than journalism. And that's something we feel strongly about - just as the Guardian as a whole has a fine history of supporting the creative arts in so many forms, so GuardianWitness should showcase not just journalism but the creative arts as well."

EE Contributor of the Year Award

Andy Luck and George Tymvios scooped both the original short film award, and the grand prix EE contributor of the year award, for their film Pasty Child.This quirky animated short, which follows the growing pains of a young girl with a pasty for a head, was praised by judges as "absurdist and dark yet warm and sympathetic" with "a simplicity and clarity that's always welcome."Margetson said of the film: "The winner combined ingenious tech, a singular aesthetic, perfect characterisation, a brilliant compressed narrative and pitch-black humour. Its 180 seconds stay with you as long as many full-length movies."

Best Original Still Award

Soar by Souvid Datta scooped best original still award at the GuardianWitness ceremony.

Award for a series of contributions

Giles Bennett for his photographs of floods in Aberystwyth and Barbaros Kayan for his series on the Turkey protests
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