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.