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Festival Newz
Welcome to the news page for the Mandurah Short Film Festival. This page will keep you up-to-date with any upcoming promotions associated with the Festival, progress of the Festival, resources that may help film makers and news & special offers from our sponsors and local businesses. Keep in touch !
And the nominations are.... Here they are....this years shortlisted finalists. Good luck to all concerned!
Karen Williams on board Karen Williams from Artemis International has agreed to join our adjudication panel again for 2007. Karen has a wealth of experience in production, mainly documentary films, with her credits including Desperately Seeking Sheila, The Eye of the Tiger and productions for Australian Story and Message Stick TV. She also produced the enchanting short film Pilbarra Pearl. A highly respected member of the film industry, Karen is a much appreciated asset to our festival. WithoutABox Keep tuned, we are currently in the process of hooking into the WithoutABox submission system. We aim to make the process of entering a simple as possible (let's face it, you've done enough work making the film!) and this is a very popular and effective method of achieving this. The current submission protocol will stand and WithoutABox will be an extra option. 4 July 2007 Generations Together I was watching an episode of Message Stick on ABC which documented the production of a dance and music event in Broome. One of the subjects explained that to find stories to present in dance and song, they went to their elders because "when you want stories, you go to the old people". How true. We often forget the value of the "storytelling" generation and our capacity to learn from them. With this in mind, our Generations Together program encourages film makers to utilise the stories - true and otherwise - of seniors as material for their short films and also involve the storyteller in the film making process. Let's not kid ourselves, however. This is a challenge. In effect it is like asking a painter to draw a scene based on a description; but with greater challenge comes greater reward. Generations Together films are eligible for entry in the film makers category (School, Peel, Indigenous etc.) but also in the Seniors category (we are expecting that the storyteller is included in the process). We hope that schools in particular will encourage media students to look at this as a project - after all there is no harm in students learning much more that film making in the process of making a film! More information including explanatory noted, brainstorming ideas, parent notification etc for schools can be obtained by Sean. 25 October 2006 And the winner is...... Well, done and dusted for another year. And what a show it was. A big 'thankyou' to all of you who submitted films and helped make the festival the success it was. And congratulations to all the winners. See you all next year! BEST FILM IN FESTIVAL 'Mind in Mine' by Steve Liew, Steve Mihaljevich and Naomi Pietracatella SMARTER THAN SMOKING AWARD 'Talk Back' by Luke Hadley OPEN Best Animation - 'CV' by Steph Brotchie and Maia Tarrell Best Drama - 'Tommy the Kid' by Stuart Clegg Best Music Video - 'Mind in Mine' by Steve Liew, Steve Mihaljevich and Naomi Pietracatella Best Documentary - 'Best Kept Secret' by Serena Ryan SPECIAL CHALLENGE Best Animation - 'Never Bin in Love Before' by Wendy Crothers Best Drama - 'Costume Drama' by Joel Slinger Best Music Video - 'Hiatus : Car Crash' by Hayden Stevens Best Documentary - 'Meet the Eye' by Iveca Lendich PEEL REGION Best Film - 'Seymour Bob' by Brodie Rocca Best Animation - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' by Matthew Rogers PRIMARY SCHOOL Best Film - 'The Doll' by Imogen Brown, Lachlan Froud, Garrick Mc Kenzie, Chelsea Smith, Alex Stirling (Filmbites Film School) LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL Best Film - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' by Matthew Rogers (Frederick Irwin Anglican College) Best Drama/Documentary - 'You Have Mail' by Jamie Brown, Baden Best Harris, Jake Harrison, Jessica Hegarty and Hannah Hugessen (Filmbites Film School) UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL Best Drama - 'Wirrelton Boundary' by Andrew Pearce (Wodonga College) Best Music Video - 'Do You Like It' by Brianna Phillips, Rebecca Cook and Bronwyn Bate (Woodvale Senior High Shool), music by XTORTYA HIMAC SCHOOL SPONSORS AWARD 'Johanna Mayer' by Bianca Meshiati, Monty Olifent, Michelle McGrath and Katherine Hazelwood (Shenton College) TERTIARY Best Film - 'Wally' by Tonnette Stanford 19 October 2006 Taaaaaa Daaaaaaa! Here they are....a complete list of all the films in this year's festival. Good luck to everyone! PRIMARY Filmbites - 'Kabloosh' Filmbites - 'Graveyard Fears' Filmbites - 'The Doll' Busselton PS - 'Johnny's Chocolate Wish' LOWER SECONDARY Frederick Irwin - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' Halls Head - 'Moto X Madness' Filmbites - 'Machinations' Filmbites - 'You Have Mail' UPPER SECONDARY Shenton College - 'Better Man' Shenton College - 'Johanna Mayer' Shenton College - 'Five Finger Discount' Shenton College - 'Bullet Theory' Wodonga Senior Secondary College - 'The Wirrelton Boundary' Woodvale SHS - 'Do You Like It?' Woodvale SHS - 'Wide Open' Woodvale SHS - 'Recipe for Rock and Roll' Woodvale SHS - 'Where Were You?' Woodvale SHS - 'One Day' Woodvale SHS - 'Ever After' Sacred Heart - 'Coming To Life' Sacred Heart - 'When You Hear Me Calling' Sacred Heart - 'Mercy' Sacred heart - 'Icarus' TERTIARY Brent Holgate - 'The GP' VCA School of Film and Television - 'Wally' Luke Hadley - 'Talk Back' PEEL REGION Matthew Rogers - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' Brodie Rocca - 'Driving Desperation' Brodie Rocca - 'In Smoke' Brodie Rocca - 'Seymour Bob' SPECIAL CHALLENGE Animation: 'Never Bin in Love Before' Documentary: 'Meet the Eye' Drama: 'A Costume Drama' Music: 'Hiatus : Car Crash' OPEN Animation Steph Brotchie and Maia Tarrell - 'CV' Danny Jennings - 'Blank Oblivion' Sam Winzar - 'Jam in the Works' Matthew Rogers - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' Frank Candilord - 'Babushka' Music Danny Jennings - 'Blank Oblivion' Steve Liew - 'Mind in Mine' Brianna Phillips - 'Do You Like It?' Matthew Rogers - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' Documentary Iveca Lendich - 'Meet the Eye' Serena Ryan - 'Best Kept Secret' Sam Winzar - 'Jam in the Works' Steph Brotchie and Maia Tarrell - 'CV' Drama Paul Lee - 'The Offering' Amy Slater - 'The Ball' Tonette Stanford - 'Wally' Stuart Clegg - 'Tommy The Kid' Leone Hooke - 'Valentines Day' Luke Hadley - 'Talk Back' - Scrubs Travis Earl - 'Shameful Legacy' 16 August 2006 Schools take note! After concerns from a number of schools regarding the timing of the event and clashes with local events, the Mandurah Short Film Festival Schools presentation will be on Saturday October 21st and not Friday October 20th.The event is at the usual matinee time of 2pm and schools will be notified with anticipated running times of Primary, Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary sections. Ticketing will be through the MPAC box office on (00 61 8) 9550 3900. Keep tuned to this site for more information over the next 2 weeks. Please note that tickets will go on sale from late August for the event. Overcoming and coming on board This year sees a new and very exciting new category for entrants, which caters for film makers who have had to overcome major difficulties in their lives. The Special Challenge category is for people with physical and mental disability or circumstantial disadvantage. To clarify, this could include a person who has overcome physical or emotional abuse, personal tragedy, severe hardship or some other obstacle in life which they have overcome. The entrants in this section are invited to include some information about their circumstances with their entries. There has already been great interest from disabled and disadvantaged film makers and we are really looking forward to giving them a chance to shine on the big screen. All the best to all participants. 11 August 2006 With the 2006 arrangements well under way, there is certainly plenty to report. We have had a healthy stream of queries so hopefully this update will clarify some "nuts and bolts" issues with the festival. Generations Together (GT). The festival has promoted a project where schools invite seniors known to students (grandparents, neighbours, family friends) to tell a story to classes. It could be a life story, historical events from their youth or their favourite bedtime story when they were children etc.). These stories then form the basis of a film project for the students. Many schools have queried whether these are the only films eligible to enter the festival. The short answer is "no". The GT films are just a suggested possible starting point and have their own award within the festival but all films by schools that are suitable for general exhibition and are less than 10 minutes are invited to enter. Open entries stream in. It is always uplifting to witness enthusiasm and with entries already arriving well ahead of the September 26 deadline, there is certainly some enthusiasm out there. If the quality of entries from last year, and those so far this year is any indication, this year will be another great exposition of the talent and imagination of our film makers. Keep them rolling in! Rotary on board. The Peel Districts Rotary has again come on board to provide a $1500 prize to the best film from the Peel region. Rotary is a hard working network of socially minded people who quietly contribute hugely to welfare, culture and community locally, nationally and internationally and this is just another example of their work. The organizers are extremely grateful for their support and encourage all the "locals" out there to get serious about winning it. Keep it clean! The committee advises all entrants to make sure that they peruse the entry conditions carefully, especially the restrictions with regard to drugs, alcohol and smoking. Due to the mixed nature of our festival, with all ages in attendance, and our sponsorship by Healthway, the judges need to be very strict with regard to this rule. To clarify, drug and alcohol use and smoking must not be shown. They can be referred to in an educational or precautionary context, such as in an anti-smoking message, but judges may ask for modification to films if they appear to glamorise these behaviours. 22 August 2005 RESULTS! Well it's all over for another year and once again we were very pleased with the quality of the entries. The standard just continues to get better and better. Congratulations to all those involved! Before we get to the results we would like to take the chance to thanks all of those who have helped make the Festival such a success. This includes the committee, the judges, all of the sponsors, the audience who turned up for the Awards Night, the schools and other groups who have supported the film-makers and of course the film-makers themselves. Roll on 2006! And now the winners......the envelope please.....(drum roll)...the winners are.... Best Film of the Festival (Sponsored by Alcoa World Alumina Australia) - The Brink by Ross Ioppolo and Jeff Billma Open Film Section (Sponsored by Alcoa World Alumina Australia) Animation Award (Sponsored by Mandurah Hyundai) - Medussa First Date by Jacob Fjord Experimental Award (Sponsored by Peel Development Commission) - A Fishy Dilemma by Emma Roges, Minx Productions Documentary Award (Sponsored by Coast FM) - Passion with Pedigree by Matt Carter Schools Short Film Competition (Sponsored by HiMac of Mandurah) Best Film over-all (Sponsored & presented by Mr Carl Roberts - HiMac of Mandurah) - The Virtues Project by Falcon Primary School Primary School Section (Sponsored by Bassett-Scarfe Realty) - The Virtues Project by Falcon Primary School Lower Secondary School Section (Sponsored by Mandurah Marina) - Chilly Man by Matthew Rogers Upper Secondary School Section (Sponsored by H&N Perry) - Pull by Allysa Burton , Woodvale Senior High School Healthway Award - Ninja Nerds by Mirrabooka Senior High School Peel Region Film Section (Sponsored by Combined Rotary Clubs of Peel) - A Cloud Over Mandurah by Clayton, Joshua and Radar Luttrell Seniors Film Section (Sponsored by Mandurah’s Coastal Times) - Stretching the Canvas by Frances Overhue BEST FILM OF THE FESTIVAL (Sponsored by Alcoa World Alumina Australia) Picture the dilemma. You are locked in your toilet with a broken door knob, your can hear your dog destroying your house , and your only hope of escape is the burglar currently ransacking your belongings. This quirky situation is the subject of Ross Ioppolo and Jeff Bilman’s short film, the Brink, which added a best film award at the 2005 Smarter Than Smoking Mandurah Short Film Festival to an already impressive list of accolades. The Brink had its world premiere at the Fremantle Outdoor Film Festival in March 2005 and has since gathered four West Australian Screen Award prizes, selection in the Revelation Film Festival, a Gold Diploma at the UK Cotswold International Film and Video Festival and was a finalist at the UK Portobello Film Festival. It was selected by Qantas Airlines as part of its in flight program this year. Jeff Bilman, the co-director and writer of The Brink was also a finalist in the Mandurah Short Film Festival with his follow up film “The Weekend”, which Zen Rosenthal, who won last years best film award with “Sam and the Green Men” was the editor for “The Brink”. The Brink was produced with assistance from the Film and Television Institute (WA), Screenwest and Lotterywest. SCHOOLS SHORT FILM COMPETITION (Sponsored by Carl Roberts - HiMac of Mandurah) Carl can’t contain his enthusiasm regarding the success of this years Smarter Than Smoking Mandurah Short Film Festival and in particular the highly competitive Schools Section, which he has been proud to sponsor since the Festival started 3 years ago. Carl, an Authorised Reseller for Apple Computer (Australia) in the Peel Region of Western Australia, also produces all the compilations and presentations during the running of the Festival along with IT teacher Mike Rogers and this year stunned many production crews and film buffs by carrying out all of the work, including the actual broadcast on the night using a new iMac G5, costing a little more than the School section prize. “ No third party software was required” said Carl “ from the opening Fanfare in iTunes, production of the compilations in iMovie HD, to final format in iDVD, the iMac cruised through ...” This year the section saw entries from schools around Australia including Sydney, NSW. However, based on a handicap system to give the primary schools a fair chance, the New Mac Mini system complete with LCD monitor, valued at over $1500 was won by one of the local primary schools, Falcon Primary, who have taken out the Primary section for the second year running, but this is their first time as Best Overall Film the Schools Section. Year 6&7 IT teacher Colin Lyons said: “I am always enthused by people who are so supportive of great events like the Festival and on behalf of myself and the kids I thank the organisers of the Festival and you for your involvement.” A presentation was made at Falcon Primary School on Friday 19th August in front of a packed assembly. PEEL REGION FILM SECTION (Sponsored by Combined Rotary Clubs of Peel) The fantastic win by the Luttrell’s film “A Cloud Over Mandurah” at the Smarter Than Smoking Mandurah Short Film Festival 2005 was certainly a family affair, albeit with a few of the little trials that family life can bring. The exceptional film documented the tragic drowning of three nuns and a priest in the Peel estuary in 1959 and won the Best Peel Region Film Award and a $1500 prize cheque, provided by the Combined Rotary Clubs of Mandurah and Pinjarra. However the making of the film had some hiccups. Radar Luttrell revealed that he and sons Clayton and Joshua at one stage spent an entire day with wife Vicki and daughter Georga filming part of the re-enactment scenes on the Peel estuary with friends and family cast as nuns and locals. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, the precious material was taped over and had to be re-shot from scratch. The result was an exceptional film which was very well received and earned praise from John Kevan, Rotary District Governor Elect of District 9460, representing the four Rotary Clubs who provided the prize. “This film brought together old and young, family and friends in a cooperative project which can entertain and enrich all in the community and represents the best of the values and endeavour that Rotary promotes. A worthy winner indeed” “A Cloud Over Mandurah” beat home excellent entries from Scott Zirus, Jeff Funnell, Grant Johnston, Matthew Rogers and many others. ANIMATION CREATION! A local school boy caught the eye of many professional film makers with his extraordinary animation entry in the Smarter than Smoking Mandurah Short Film Festival 2005. Matthew Rogers created the superhero characters “Chilly Man and Pea Boy” who, in episode 1, battle the evil inventor of the “Blendinator 2000” and save the world. His brothers Peter and Jack provided the voices of the characters to make the film a family affair. Matthew was successful in winning the best film from lower secondary school and the best animation of the Schools Short Film Contest (Sponsored by HiMac of Mandurah) which saw entries from schools throughout Australia. His film was also judged the best animation in the Peel region section. Matthew had the thrill of being feted by film makers from production companies who expressed amazement at the quality of his work. One producer director told Matthew “ I’m going to remember your name, I think I will hear a lot of it one day”. And he may just be right.
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