BOFA announces finalist for their Digital SLR competition
The Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival has announced the finalists for their Digital SLR Short Film Competition
The festival is currently on in Launceston, Tasmania. Winners of the competition will be announced at the BOFA Awards Dinner.
The films have been selected for reflecting the festival’s contemporary issues and this year’s themes of “new horizons” or “food for thought.”
Judges for the competition include Gregor Jordan (Dir: Ned Kelly, Two Hands) Rowan Woods (Dir: Little Fish, The Boys) and Karena Slaninka, Screen Tasmania’s CEO.
The Digital SLR Short Film Competition 2011 finalists for the MyState BOFA Film Festival are:
- ‘Abbie’, Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min
- ‘Being Bradford Dillman’, Dir. Emma Burch, UK, 10 min
- ‘Bookman’, Dir. Ben Bryan, Australia, 10 min
- ‘Bottled’, Dir. Michael Sloane, Australia, 9 min
- ‘Cloud’, Dir. Gilbert James, UK, 12 min
- ‘Emilia Eckle’, Dir. Alyssa McClelland, Australia, 7 min
- ‘Good Men’, Dir. Brian Connors, USA, 12 min
- ‘Life in Red String’. Dir. Keir Wilkins, Australia, 9 min
- ‘Peekaboo’, Dir. Damien Power, Australia, 10 min. Filmmaker from Tasmania
- ‘Red Orchid’. Dir. Haydn Kwan, Australia, 7 min
- ‘Sharfik’, Dir. Karina Gazizova, USA, 14 min
- ‘Stiff Competition’, Dir. Ashleigh Hanley, Australia, 10 min
- ‘The Bachelor Experience’, Dir. Fiona Dalwood, Australia, 2 min
- ‘The Grace of Others’, Dir. Alexander Brunacci, Australia, 11 min. Filmmaker from Launceston, Tasmania.
Winners will be awarded in three categories, with generous prizes supplied by sponsors:
- Best Tasmanian Short Film Award: $1000 cash from Screen Tasmania
- Best International Short Film Award: $1000 travel and tuition from AFTRS the winner
- Best Youth Short Film Award: $1000 cash thanks to Launceston City Council
The Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival runs until Sunday 27 November with screenings including Nine’s Beaconsfield Telemovie, Caught Inside, El Bulli, Norwegian Wood and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
