• Closing Night
• Awards
• Judges’ Biographies
  

Awards

Best Short Film - $10,000 cash               Swing    Director: Christopher    Houghton    Producer: Louise Pascale		sponsored by the City of Port Philip
Craft Award - $1, 000 cash    Booth Story    Directors: Edwin McGill, Kasimir    Burgess    Producers: Jason Byrne,     Kasimir Burgess, Edwin McGill		sponsored by Film Victoria
Best Director - $1,500 cash (Animal Logic) and an ASDA member pack including.    Stuart Moulds     Stalled		co-sponsored by Animal Logic and Australian Directors Gild
Best Documentary - $1,000 cash    My Brother Vinnie    Director: Steven McGregor    Producer: Sarah Bond		sponsored by Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Best Animation - $500 cash & DVDs to the retail value of $1,000    Extreme Makeover    Director: Jonathan Daw    Producer: Vicki Sugars		sponsored by Madman Entertainment
Best Comedy - Equipment hire to the value of $4,000    Car Pool    Director: Martha Goddard    Producer: Veronica Wain		sponsored by Cameraquip
Best Actor - $1,000 cash Joint winners:    Rhondda Findleton    Look Sharp      Nicholas Eadie    Still Life		sponsored by the Dogs Bar
Best Achievement in Cinematography - 5 x 400 ft rolls of Kodak 16mm Colour Negative Film valued at $1,000    Carl Robertson    Death’s Requiem		sponsored by Kodak
Best Achievement in Screenplay - $500 cash & 1 year Cinema Nova Gold Pass for 2 valued at $750, plus a public screening at Cinema Nova. 1 year membership to the AWG and a script assessment valued at $445.    Tahnee McGuire    Still Life		co-sponsored by Cinema Nova & the Australian Writers Guild
Best Achievement in Editing - $1,500 in-kind services for telecine or editing facilities    Scott Alexander    Stalled		sponsored by Digital Pictures
Best Achievement in Visual Effects - $2,000 in-kind services    Annabelle Murphy     & Cath Murphy    Marti’s Party		sponsored by Complete Post
Best Achievement in Sound Post Production - $2,000 in-kind services    Jarrod Factor    The Cat and Claudia		sponsored by Music & Effects
Best Original Score - $3,000 in-kind services    Nick Finch    Booth Story		sponsored by Monkeesee
Audience Award - 1 free membership to the IF Club and 2 x 1 year subscriptions    My Brother Vinnie    Director: Steven McGregor    Producer: Sarah Bond		sponsored by Inside Film Magazine
SBS Television Award - Offer to purchase the winning film for broadcast on SBS TV    Sweet and Sour    Director: Eddie White    Producers: Sam White, Barry    Plews & HughNguyen		sponsored by SBS
Most Positive Image of Ageing - $2,000 cash    Pop’s Dream    Director: Bronwyn Purvis    Producer: Christopher    Saunders		sponsored by Department of Victorian Communities - Office of Senior Victorians
Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking - $1,000 cash    B.L.A.C.K. An Aboriginal Song    of Hip Hop    Director / Producer: Grant Leigh    Saunders		sponsored by Sydney Film School

Judges’ Biographies

Trudy Hellier

Trudy Hellier's acting credits include Frontline, Round the Twist and the double AFI nominated Love Letters from a War. As a writer/director her most recent play The Furies, co-written with writer/director Elise McCredie, premiered Off Broadway in 2006.

Trudy wrote and associate produced, Break & Enter, AFI winner for Best Screenplay and Best Short Film, and Australian Critics Circle award winner for Best Short. She wrote and directed Trapped which screened at the New York Film Club, Palm Springs and Odense Film Festivals, having premiered at the St Kilda Film Festival. Trudy currently has three feature films in development including, Car City with Melodrama Pictures and Dog Daze with LM Films.

David Lightfoot

David Lightfoot has held diverse positions on productions including Bad Boy Bubby (1994), Three Forever (1996), The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), Innocence (1999) and Japanese Story (2003). He produced the highly successful Wolf Creek which premiered at the 2005 World Cinema Competition at Sundance Film Festival and gained Official Selection in Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2005.

David is founding director of the Garage Shorts Film Festival, and consults to the SA Film Corporation, Screenwest, leading film study education institutions and completion guarantors. He is currently producing the feature film Rogue with Greg McLean and Matt Hearn for The Weinstein Company.

John Ruane

Writer/director John Ruane’s accolades include AFI Best Short Film Awards for Queensland (1976) and Feathers (1987), which also won Best Short at the Turin Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at San Francisco. John adapted and directed the feature Death in Brunswick starring Sam Neil and John Clarke, and That Eye, The Sky, a feature based on the novel by Tim Winton and starring Peter Coyote, which screened at the 1994 Venice Film Festival during Critics Week.

He directed Dead Letter Office, a feature written by Deb Cox, starring George Del Hoyo and Miranda Otto, which won the Jury prize at 1999 Verona Film Festival. John has also worked as a script assessor and editor on numerous projects and for various government bodies.