An animated movie a couple of seagull’s romance with a drone, and an homage to the common-or-garden verge assortment are the large winners of the primary Best Australian Short Film Competition.
The winners of the nation’s richest quick movie competitors had been introduced at Rooftop Movies in Northbridge on Thursday evening at a particular occasion live-streamed nationally on PerthNow, the most important sponsor of the awards, together with SAE University College.
Judges, together with actors Mark Coles Smith and Kirsty Marillier, director Nel Minchin, Perth Festival’s Tom Vincent and The West’s movie critic Ben O’Shea, praised the calibre of the entrants, saying the way forward for Australian movie was in protected arms.
“The quality of entries on the whole for this year’s competition made the selection process particularly difficult,” Coles Smith mentioned.
Home and Away star Marillier mentioned she was floored by the entrants.
“So much stood out. If I could dwindle it down I’d say the cinematography, the larger-than-life concepts, and the level of innovation involved in the edit,” she mentioned.
“Thank you for the work you do and for inviting me into your world. You are all individual visionaries and I feel humbled to have been a part of this process. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next.”
Judges awarded the $30,000 Best Australian Short Film Competition Main Prize to Perth director and animator Radheya Jegatheva for his animation, Bird Drone.
The 24-year-old Perth filmmaker, an trade rising star, spearheaded the heartwarming venture a couple of seagull who falls in love with a drone.
Developing the concept with author Clare Toonen and producer Hannah Ngo, Jegatheva mentioned he had been fascinated with the concept of the lovelorn fowl.
“Unrequited love is so universal and I just really thought it would be a great thing to explore in an animated format especially because so often human emotions can be told through non-human characters … it’s able to reach so many different people,” he instructed The West Australian final month.
“I guess part of the challenge as well was to try and make audiences sympathise with a seagull.
“With animation, you’re able to do that and you can make it more appealing and cute, but while still staying true to the nature of seagulls and have them, you know, stealing chips and that kind of thing.
“I really wanted to put all that love, care and detail into an animation that I noticed in the films that I grew up watching — it feels like a love letter to Pixar and Studio Ghibli, the kind of studios that really saved me growing up.”
Taking out each the $10,000 West Australian Short Film Prize and the $5000 People’s Choice Award was Perth venture Verge Collection — a tribute to the annual ritual of tossing out undesirable items.
Developed by Fremantle college associates Taylor Finch, Nicholas Verryn, Nadine Barry and Kyle Thistlethwaite, the movie was described by judges as one of the best native movie, and was the clear winner from the hundreds of votes solid by PerthNow readers.
For Perth director Verryn, the piles of garbage didn’t symbolize waste — somewhat objects with tales and reminiscences.
“Growing up, I was a fan of verge collections. I like to get my hands dirty and see what items there might be,” Verryn mentioned.
“I remember in particular, there was one time I might have been around 12 when I picked up a book on the verge and it was a copy of the Kama Sutra.
“I didn’t really know what it was at first. But I opened it up and I got the idea pretty quickly and I wondered how this got here.”
The $5000 Best Animation prize was cut up between Australian Mongrel — a inventive exploration of migration in Australia — and Mahdi Poursamad’s Self-Portrait.
Self-Portrait follows a painter as capturing the essence of these on the point of passing, confronting his personal mortality.
MColes Smith mentioned Poursamad’s movie was one in all his private favourites, describing it as “boundary pushing and technically impressive”.
Juno Shean’s The Ways We Cook took out the $5000 Next Gen Youth Prize for her movie a couple of son underneath stress to prepare dinner for his complete household at a Korean barbecue restaurant.
NSW director Harvey Abrahams was awarded the $5000 Future of Film Innovation Prize for his movie Substratum, concerning the younger inheritor to an Aussie dictatorship as he navigates an remoted world of energy and management.
The $7500 WA First Nations Filmmaker Prize went to Marlanie Haerewa’s The Tale of Mr Kimberley, which tells the story of Sam Lovell, the person who got here to be often called the godfather of tourism in WA’s far north.
Coles Smith, recognized for his roles on Mystery Road: Origins, mentioned the competitors and the entries had left him feeling “immensely proud”.
“It was an absolute joy reviewing this year’s short film entries, and being reminded of all the wonderful talent that exists within our creative communities,” he mentioned.
“The future of Australian film looks very bright indeed.”
The Best Australian Short Film Competition Prize Winners
Best Animation ($5000) Tie ($2500 every)
Australian Mongrel
Recipients: Rocco Fazzari and Belinda Lopez, NSW
Self-Portrait
Recipient: Mahdi Poursamad, NSW
Next Gen Youth Prize ($5000)
The Ways We Cook
Recipient: Juno Shean, WA
Future of Film Innovation Prize ($5000)
Substratum
Recipient: Harvey Abrahams, NSW
WA First Nations Filmmaker Prize ($7500)
The Tale of Mr. Kimberley
Recipient: Marlanie Haerewa, WA
The Best West Australian Short Film Prize ($10,000)
Verge Collection
Recipients: Taylor Finch, Nicholas Verryn, Nadine Barry and Kyle Thistlethwaite, WA
The Best Australian Short Film Competition Main Prize ($30,000)
Bird Drone
Recipient: Radheya Jegatheva, WA
The People’s Choice Prize ($5000)
Verge Collection
Recipients: Taylor Finch, Nicholas Verryn, Nadine Barry and Kyle Thistlethwaite, WA
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
