IF Awards put on hold due to ‘sponsorship competition’ and ‘lack of funding options’
The Inside Film Awards have been put on hold, it has been announced.
The awards, which work on a people’s choice system, as opposed to the show put on by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, which is industry voted, has cited numerous reasons for the postponement.
Factors include a difficult economic climate, sponsorship competition and a lack of funding options in NSW, according to IF.
The IF Awards received $120,000 from Screen Australia from the screen agency’s festivals and conferences funding program in 2010 and also received funding in 2011.
A good idea – there are too many bodies dishing out awards left, right and center, to the point where they become meaningless. The Director’s Guild and Writer’s Guild should also consider putting their ceremonies on ice as well as they are pretty much pointless awards.
Dean I’d say many writers would value the awgies very highly – it’s about peer recognition in a difficult field.