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and the winners are...

CANBERRA

Best Film: Fleeting Moments - Benjamin Nunney

Best Director: Ujjwal Rai - After Hours/My First Date/I Am Free

Best Cinematography: Nathan L Collett - Lucky Fowl

Best Editing: Declan Shrubb - Out of the Loop

Best Production Design: Baxter Sheridan - Places, Please!

Best Script/Screenplay: Rob La Terra - The Punt

Best Sound Design: Frank Lipson - The Horn

Best Visual Effects: Adventurers Wanted - Tom Pugh

Best Score: Lee Francis Evatt & Laura Harris - B-Roll

Best Actor: Ryan Hedges - Martyr

Best Actress: Savahna O'Donnell - Ayudar

Best Comedy: Creek Geeks - Andrew Robb & Jessica Gerger

Emerging Talent: Lilly Endres - 1988

Highly Commended: How Would You Do It? - Quentin Nguyen

Highly Commended: And ...Breathe - Tamzin Nugent Nugent, Liz Lea & Sue Healey

Highly Commended: Two Graves - Carl Emmerson, Dan Sanguineti & Mikey Watson

Highly Commended: Broken Fingers - Spencer Wilds & Mert Boyali

Highly Commended: Empty House - Taylor Thomson & Nicholas Gaisbauer

NATIONAL

Best Film: Memorabilia - Ceridwen Dovey & Rowena Potts

Best Director: Jack Shepherd - Yakka

Best Cinematography: Bernard Winter - Laugh with Me

Best Editing: Sarah Panzetta - Armstrong

Best Production Design: Pernell Marsden - Small

Best Script/Screenplay: Nick Richardson - Still Life

Best Score: Alex Olijnyk - Small

Best Art Design: Pernell Marsden - The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie and Celeste
Best Actor: Travis Jeffrey - Dusty

Best Actress: Libby Segal and Frankie Gillespie McKay - The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie and Celeste

Best Comedy: Room For One More - Jesse Vogelar

Highly Commended: The Muse - Jessica Sherlock

Highly Commended: Still - Cornelius Marco & Adrian Dias

Highly Commended: Get Home Safe - January Jones & Karla Hillam

Highly Commended: A Rose for Katrina - Harry Quinlan

INTERNATIONAL

Best Film: Loser - Colleen McGuinness

Best Director: Virgile Texier - 2024, Année Quelconque

Best Cinematography: Émile Sornasse - My Week with George Clooney

Best Editing: Oleg Korneev & Demitri Zujew - Crease

Best Production Design: Benoit Febrinon - Memory Lane

Best Script/Screenplay: Payam Kordestani - Nietzschean Suicide

Best Sound Design: Jack Cochran - Cancer Alley

Best Art Direction: Dunes

Best Actor: Luc Brumagne - Memory Lane

Best Actress: Andrea Ariel - Forever Yours

Best Comedy: Flutter - Shane W. Brennan & Aaron Chalke

Highly Commended: Sweatshop Girl - Selma Cervantes

Highly Commended: Tango Siesta - Dinko Bozanic

Highly Commended: CLOUD STUDY - Esa-Lu Lorenz

Highly Commended: The last whinny of a horse that had dreamt of becoming a butterfly - Mahdie Mohammadi

SMITH'S SHORT SHORTS TOP 5 FILMS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Grafitti Sonata - Georgia Curry

Meet Me At Smith's - Megan Munro

RISING STARS - Luke McWilliams & Tim Stiles

The Audition - Spencer Wilds & Patrick Sullivan

The Moon & Stars in Smith's Alternative - Thomas, Richard & Juliet Garrett

SCHOOLS/UNDER 18s

Best Film: Nix's Symphony - Karina Loerchner

Best Canberra: Martyr - Oscar Rosauer


Highly Commended: manca - Mil Burford

Highly Commended: L'ecole de Cirque - Matilda Judith Deeble

Highly Commended: Blood and Bone - Charlie Butters & Chloe Thomas-Way

Highly Commended: Mockingbird - Oskar Martin

Highly Commended: Anna McGee's Wild Ride - Ava Bounds

FIRST NATIONS STORIES

Best Film: The Gap - Ada Tuna

First Runner Up: Just Beneath The Surface - Jimmy John Thaiday

Second Runner Up: Voices of Old Mapoon - Karin Calley

Highly Commended: To Be Silent - Tace Stevens & Skye Leon

Highly Commended: Marlu Man - Zac James & Brooke Collard

DOCUMENTARY

Best Film: What's in a name? - Ruth Liliana Levin

Best Canberra: Dad - Riley Eli Jones

 

Highly Commended: As The Leash Comes Loose - Jackson Hayat & Tom Buckingham

Highly Commended: Kentaro - Tilmann Stewart & Gaku Matsuda

Highly Commended: Pirsas - Angélica María Torres Tamayo

Highly Commended: Max Mcvicker - James Hiscutt

Highly Commended: Everything Changed - Fletcher Lloyd Crowley

MUSIC VIDEO

Best Film: Sheppard "Daylight" - Josh Harris

 

Highly Commended: Girls Like U - Robby Peters

Highly Commended: Pretty Stare - chicarica - Luz Andrea Sierra

Highly Commended: Peach PRC "Like a Girl Does" - Josh Harris

Highly Commended: AJR "Maybe Man" - Edoardo Ranaboldo

Highly Commended: Wait in the Car - Damien Hyde

Highly Commended: I'm Leaving - Michelle Brand

2-MINUTE FILM

Best Film: The Punt - Rob La Terra

 

Highly Commended: Red Light Green Light - Corey Grispo

Highly Commended: The Lure - Tony Hipwell

Highly Commended: A Starry Night In Apollo Bay - Amanda Vanderkleij & Ryan Telfer

 

ANIMATION

Best Film: Le Charade - Erika Totoro

Best Canberra Animation: Hidden Purpose - Scott Cadzow

Best U20's Animation: Nix's Symphony - Karina Loerchner

Best Direction: Octopus Banana Hotchpotch - Milanka Fabjancic

Best Animation Craft: Sweet Like Lemons - Jenny Jokela

Highly Commended: Tennis, Oranges - Sean Pecknold

Highly Commended: Nyanga - Medhin Tewolde Serrano

Highly Commended: CHAIN - Ling Han

Highly Commended: Hooba - Sem Assink

EXPERIMENTAL

Best Film: Torii - Martin Gerigk

 

Highly Commended: Feeling - Holly George

Highly Commended: Subversion - Jack Riley

Highly Commended: Types of Rain - Ian Gibbins

SPIRITUS FILM PRIZE

Open Category Winner: The last time I saw you - Damian McLindon

Highly Commended: Screentime - Alexandrena Parker

Regional Winner: To be silent - Tace Stevens

Highly Commended: We are flying stars - Todd Antony

Highly Commended: Tomorrow's trees - Adam Lichoudaris

Highly Commended: Inner Depths - Mark Russel Bernard

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