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Congratulations to the following nominees whos works particularly stood out to the screening commitee. Join us at our Awards Ceremony on the closing night of the festival to find out which of the nominated films our judges decided will receive the following awards:

SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY – BEST FILM AWARD

Heartlines

Laya Project

Monkey Puzzle

Saving Luna

the sound of CRY

Angus Gibson & Mariki Pretorious (South Africa)

Harold Monfils & Yotam Agam (Malaysia/India)

Mark Forstmann & Tamara Popper (Australia)

Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit (Canada)   

Michael Mier & Lav Bodnaruk (Australia)
 

 

SAE INSTITUTE – BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE AWARD

Choose Connor 

Heartlines

Lullabye Before I Wake

Monkey Puzzle

Ripple Effect 

Lucas Eberl & Karuna Eberl (USA)  

Angus Gibson & Mariki Pretorious (South Africa)

Nate Pantumsinchai & Thanakorn Pongsuwan (Thailand)

Mark Forstmann & Tamara Popper (Australia)

Philippe Caland (USA)
 

 

GREENHOUSEFX – BEST ANIMATION AWARD

911/911

Dog Days  

Fission  

Postman

The Tale of How

Yoga Noga Reyoga

Mel Chin & Chip Schneider (USA)

Geoffroy de Crécy & Nicolas Schmerkin (France)

Kun-I  Chang (USA)

PostPanic (The Netherlands)

The Blackheart Gang (South Africa)

Kengo Kurimoto (UK)
 

 

BYRON AT BYRON – BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM AWARD

Consume This! A Stockumentary

Fridays at the Farm

Guilty by Nature

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea 

Saving Luna 

Sam Field (Australia)

Richard Power Hoffmann (USA)

Joseph Barnet & Laura Pye (UK)

Christopher Metzler & Jeff Springer (USA) 

Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit (Canada)
 

 

BAY FM – BEST BYRON BAY FILMMAKER -

Nominees will be announced on-line before the start of the festival.

 

FRONTLINE – BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARD

Agnieszka 2039

Apnee 

Face  

Une Instituut (Institute of the dream) 

Raymond

Things Fall Apart 

Tyger  

Martin Gauvreau (UK)

Claude  Chabot (France)

Hendrick Dusollier (France)

Mati Kütt (Estonia)

Fabrice Le Nezet, Francois Roisin, Jules Janaud (UK/France)

Rob Chiu (UK)

Guilherme Marcondes (Brazil)
 

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD

Eddie Proctor

Laya Project

Tanghi Argentini

The Pain of the Macho

Tres

Triple Concerto In D Minor  

Andre De Souza (UK)

Cheong Yuk Hoy & Agung Dewantoro (Malaysia/Indonesia)

Frank Van den Eeden (Belgium)

Paul Seipel (Australia)

Ralph Kächele, Andre Lascaris & Dominique Martinez (USA) 

Matt Stewart ACS (Australia)
 

 

BEST SHORT FILM

A Day's Work

The Sound of CRY

A Map with Gaps

Tanghi Argentini

You Better Watch Out

Tres

Rajeev Dassani  (USA)

Michael Mier & Lav Bodnaruk (Australia)

Alice Nelson (UK/Ireland)

Guido Thys & Anja Daelemans (Belgium)

Steve Callen & Jules Callen (Australia)

Robert Weiermair & Brenda Weiermair (USA)
 

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Glue Boys

Indestructible

Outback Eclipse Story

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Saving Luna

Philip Hamer (USA)

Ben Byer & Rebeccah Rush (USA)

Luke Robinson (New Zealand)

Christopher Metzler & Jeff Springer (USA)

Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit (Canada)
 

 

BEST SURF FILM

Believe

Cheele Cheele

Down the Barrel 

Sliding Liberia

Mick Waters (Australia)

Blake Copland (Australia)

Steve Lawrence (USA)

Britton Caillouette (USA)
 

 

THE AVID TECHNOLOGY BEST YOUNG AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKER

Heart's Atlantis

Further 

Julian

Mona

The Sound of CRY/The Pain of the Macho

Yesterday

Andrew Macdonald

Darius Devas

Tom Noakes

Charlotte Hamlyn

Lav Bodnaruk  

Adam Marshal, Stewart Spark & Gabriel Arias