The Triangle Wars wins best Australian doco at Antenna Festival
Director Rosie Jones has won the Award for Best Australian Documentary Film for her film The Triangle Wars at the inaugural Antenna International Documentary Film Festival.
The film follows the conflict between local government, big business and the community over the development of a ‘mega mall’ on the foreshore of St Kilda.
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen won the SBS Award for Best International Documentary Film for Into Eternity, looking at how Finland considers their options regarding the very real, very long-term issue of nuclear waste storage.
Matt Cooney took out the Best Australian Students Documentary Film Award for his film Ol’ Blue Eyes, about the life of Sydney taxi driver, Zachary Kryuchkov, who is a classically trained singer from Ukraine playing his CDs to his customers.
This year was the first outing for the Antenna Film Festival. Director David Rokach told Encore: “We felt there is a need for a documentary festival and the amount of people that came proved it. We’re now sitting down evaluating what we’ll do next, but it will definitely be back next year.”
Rokach added: “I think we created an environment with the festival where people were hanging around for four days from one cinema to another, so it was a good experience.”
“It was interesting to see there was a different audience for each film, especially a film like (Irish bare-knuckle boxing story) Knuckle, people who wouldn’t normally see documentaries.”
The festival opened on Wednesday 5 with Memoirs of a Plague by Australian director Robert Nugent at the Dendy Opera Quay Cinemas with the following screenings at the Chauvel Cinemas. The festival closed last night, Sunday 9 with Philip Cox’s The Bengali Detective and the announcement of competition winners.
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When can we see this documentaries again???
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