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The latest Show Me Shorts Film Festival winners have been unveiled in Auckland.
The annual festival is now underway and celebrates the very best in short film making.
Jack Woon took home the coveted Kodak Best Film Award for his dreamy drama about awkward teenage love, The Great Barrier. Woon also took out the SDGNZ Best Director prize. A pre-recorded acceptance speech was sent up from Dunedin where he is currently working on a new project.
Australian film The Kiss by Ashlee Page took home both the
Panavision Best Cinematographer prize and the StarNow Best Actor
award for an outstanding performance by Nicole
Gulasekharam.
Tammy Davis collected the Script to Screen Best Screen Play for his
crowd pleasing directorial debut film about two thieves, Ebony
Society, which he also wrote.
The judges, James Brookman, Catherine Fitzgerald and Paul Grinder,
paid tribute to the bright futures of all the filmmakers. "What a
privilege to watch these films," said film producer Catherine
Fitzgerald, whose Samoan language feature film The Orator is
currently in cinemas. "The diversity of stories, storytelling and
talent made selecting nominees and winners a real challenge, but
equally fills me with excitement in anticipation for what the
future will bring from these filmmakers. "
With a total prize pool valued at over $10,000, the winners
received a range of tools that will help them continue to make more
films, such as film stock from Kodak, camera gear hire from
Panavision, writing workshops and subscriptions to industry
publications.
The Show Me Shorts Film Festival is now showing at five locations
around Auckland, and opens next week in Wellington, Christchurch
and Dunedin, before it moves on to smaller regional centres.
