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.
The film was one of three recipients of Screen Australia’s 2011 Springboard Short Film Course. The course mentors creative duos to produce a short film which will be the grounding for a feature film idea.
The win and cash prize will help the duo on the related feature These Final Hours about a young man who is making his way to a party on the last day of the earth but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father.
The feature has already received funding from Western Australia’s state film agency ScreenWest, investing $750,000 as part of the West Coast Visions initiative as well as from Screen Australia in December.
Transmission was also selected at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
St Kilda Short Film Awards winners list:
Best Short Film
Transmission – Dir. Zak Hilditch / Prod. Liz Kearney
Craft Award
Winner: Into the Sun – Dir. Amy Gebhardt / Prod. Allison Lockwood
Commendation: Ten Quintillion – Dir. Romilly Spiers / Prod. Romilly Spiers, Daniel Gregg
Best Director
Transmission – Dir. Zak Hilditch
Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking
Yapawarnti Palu Rijikarrijani – Dir. Kai Raisbeck / Prod. Kai Raisbeck
Best Documentary
The Globe Collector – Dir. Summer DeRoche / Prod. Andrea Distefano
Best Animation
The Missing Key – Dir. Jonathan Nix /Prod. Garth Nix
Best Comedy
Boo! – Dir. Rupert Reid / Prod. Matthew Reeder
Best Actor
Angourie Rice – Transmission
Best Achievement in Screenplay
After the Credits – Josh Lawson
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Paper Planes – Nick Matthews ACS
Best Achievement in Editing
Transmission – Merlin Cornish
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Light as a Feather – David McDonnell
Best Achievement in Production Design
Cryo – Karen Murphy
Best Original Score
The Missing Key – Miles Nicholas, Jonathan Nix, Kathryn Brownhill
Best Achievement in Sound Post Production
Nullarbor – Matt Bauer
Under the Radar – Best Youth Short Film
The Trouble with Alexander – Directed and Produced by Blake Borcich
SBS Award Winner
THE WILDING, directed by Grant Scicluna and produced by Jannine Barnes.
topics
cinema
film
Liz Kearney
Screen Australia
Screen West
short film
These Final Hours
Transmission
Zak Hilditch
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.
User ID not verified.