Transmission dominates at St Kilda Short Film Festival
Post-apocalyptic short film Transmission dominated the St Kilda Film Festival Awards last night.
The short drama, about a deadly pandemic and its impact on a father-daughter relationship, won top prize of Best Short Film at the awards plus a $10,000 cash prize.
Of the nominees in the Best Short Film category, Transmission beat out Anthony Maras’s The Palace, Peekaboo directed by Damien Power and At The Formal directed by Andrew Kavanagh.
Produced by Liz Kearney and written and directed by Zak Hilditch it was a big night for Transmission with Hilditch winning Best Director and Angourie Rice who plays the daughter winning Best Actor while editor Merlin Cornish won Best Achievement in Editing.
Angourie Rice is only 11 years old. She had just turned 10 when she shot the film. She’s on this website in the WA Office of Road Safety TVC with her mother and younger sister (“Distracted Drivers Are Dangerous”) and appears in the Chevron “We Agree” TVC deconstructed on The Gruen Transfer last year.