Highly commended awards and winners to be announced on Opening night.
People’s Choice, will be an Opening Night film, as selected by the Opening Night audience.
Best Film International (Open category)
Short Draft, Spyridon Papaspyrou
Bazigaga, Jo Ingabire Moys winner
Duos, Marion Defer
One Last Summer, Xavier Lacaille
Best Australian Film
Heart Throb, Greta Nash
Best Film By a Female Director (Open category)
Duos, Marion Defer
Bazigaga, Jo Ingabire Moys, winner
La Perra, Carla Melo Gampert
Unsynchronised, Zooey Gao
Best Film West
Heart Throb, Greta Nash
Mr Chicken Goes to Mars, Katrina Mathers, Leigh Hobbs, winner
Creek Geeks, Andrew Robb, Jessica Gerger
Best Documentary
Heat Beat, Tamara Brane-Gregory
The Drivers, Fraser Cameron
Unsynchronised, Zooey Gao, winner
Best Emerging filmmaker
Bokeh, Christian Misuraca
Last Chance, Zak Marrinan, winner
Heat Beat, Tamara Brane-Gregory
Best Cultural Diversity
Bokeh, Christian Misuraca, winner
Bazigaga, Jo Ingabire Moys
The Armchair on the Pavement, Mary Kolonia
Best Student -Secondary Student
Larceny, Chase Bradshaw
The Veiling of a Heart, Jess Nipperess
Magpie Mocha, Dylan Wijesekera, winner
Sticky Notes, Jorja Kavellaris
Best Acting Performance
Eliane Umuhire, Bazigaga
Gabriel Cali, Heart Throb,winner
Pablo Pauly, Duos
Best Animation
La Perra, Carla Melo Gampert
In una goccia / In a drop, Valeria Weerasinghe, winner
Mr Chicken Goes to Mars, Katrina Mathers, Leigh Hobbs
Best Indigenous Achievement
Just Beneath the Surface, Jimmy John Thaiday
Allira, Tyeli Hannah, winner
Best Comedy
Short draft, Spyridon Papaspyrou, winner
Creek Geeks, Andrew Robb, Jessica Gerger
Morning After, Emily Quattrocchi
