Last month, CJ Clarke was named the winner of the inaugural Open Shutter awards, the UK's first competition dedicated to HD-DSLR movies, organised by British Journal of Photography in partnership with Canon UK.

The Open Shutter awards celebrate films shot using one of a new generation of digital SLR cameras that in addition to capturing still images can also shoot broadcast-quality video. The cameras have been taken up by filmmakers and photographers alike, and are being used to shoot everything from Hollywood movies to weddings. Their small size and affordability opens filmmaking to virtually anybody - but more than that, the access to a huge range of lenses and the focus effects you can achieve with them open up new creative opportunities.

Open Shutter was set up to recognise excellence using this emerging technology, and to encourage dialogue between the photography and filmmaking communities.

Remarkably, Mother and Daughter was Clarke's first film. It was nominated alongside eight other entries made up of short films, promos, documentaries and full-length features, some of them produced by filmmakers with decades worth of experience.

BJP spoke with the filmmakers and photographers behind this year's nine shortlisted movies, asking them how the technology as changed their lives and the way they produce films.

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