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Australian filmmakers well represented at MIFF Short Awards

South Australian director Anthony Maras has picked up Best Australian Film at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival Short Awards,  for his offering The Palace.

Based on true events The Palace follows a family as they flee the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

The Palace won Best Short Film (Live Action) and the Audience Award at  Sydney and Adelaide Film Festivals respectively – making it eligible for consideration in the short film category at the 2012 Academy Awards.

The award for the Emerging Australian Filmmaker was awarded to Andrew Kavanagh for his short At the Formal , and Best Animated Short Film went to Australian directors Alister Lockhart and Patrick Sarell for Nullabor.

The Grand Prix was picked up by Canada’s  Kevan Funk for A Fine Young Man.

2011 MIFF Short Awards Winners List:

  • Transmission Films Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker : Victorian Andrew Kavanagh for At the Formal.
  • Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film: South Australian Anthony Maras for The Palace
  • Swinburne Award for Best Documentary Short Film: From Germany and the Ukraine,  Rainer Luwigs and Tetyana Chernyavska for Leonids Story
  • The Holmesglen Award for Best Animation Short Film: Victorian directors Alister Lockhart and Patrick Sarell for Nullabor
  • Cinema Nova Award for Best Fiction Short Film: Canada’s Kazik Radwanski and Daniel Montgomery for Green Crayons
  • Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Best Experimental Short Film: Portuguese directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt for A History of Mutual Respect
  • City Of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film: Canada’s Kevan Funk for A Fine Young Man
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