Like we did last year, in 2012 too we will bring you a first look at the BAFTA short nominees, always filled with absolutely gems all around.

Since most of these shorts are still in the festival rounds, they aren’t yet available for release, but their trailers or snippets videos are. So let’s start right away with nominated shorts for animation.

ABUELAS by Afarin Eghbal, Kasia Malipan, Francesca Gardiner

BOBBY YEAH by Robert Morgan

A MORNING STROLL by Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe

Great stuff, right? Let’s see the available footage for Shorts – live-action – now:

CHALK by Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, James Bolton, Ilaria Bernardini

MWANSA THE GREAT by Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet

ONLY SOUND REMAINS – Arash Ashtiani, Anshu Poddar

Unfortunately we couldn’t find even a trailer for the following ones:

PITCH BLACK HEIST by John Maclean, Gerardine O’Flynn

TWO AND TWO by Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen

These types of awards are a great display of originality and creativity and I for one can’t wait to see them ini their entirety.

The BAFTA Awards are held at the 12th of February.