The winners of the 2014 Cofilmic Awards have been announced.

Connected to the Cofilmic Festival, which aims to nurture new comedy talent across film, TV and web based content, the awards recognise the best sketch, sitcom and short films.

You can watch the winners and runners-up from the three categories below...

Best Sketch: Coming Out Clown

A sketch by the comedy group This Glorious Monster, directed by Stephen Pipe.

Best Sitcom or Web Series Pilot: Ivan Brackenbury

A sitcom pilot starring Tom Binns' radio DJ character Ivan Brackenbury, directed by Jason Wingard.

Best Short Film: The Butcher

Steve Speirs and Liam Williams star in this short film about an angry butcher. It was directed by George Kane

Runners-Up

The following were the runners-up...

Seabastards by Hot Gulp:

Jeff And Caroline by Plum Stupple-Harris:

The Grave Sketch by Richard Woolford:

The awards were handed out by Steve Oram and Jack Carroll at a ceremony at The Comedy Store in Manchester on Wednesday 29th October 2014.

As part of their sponsorship of the festival, the production company Wildseed Studios will be offering a £10,000 development fund to one of the winners.

Colfilmic founder Janet Harrison says of the 2014 festival: "As always, I am amazed by the creativity and ideas which come through each year from the film makers and sketch writer/performers. It is great to see new people submitting who have not entered the competition before and also to see those who have, progress from previous years.

"Support from the comedy industry generally was strong this year with commissioners, writers and film production companies all represented and keen to find exciting new talent."