CinéfestOz Film Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The CinéfestOZ Film Prize is part of a three-year sponsorship arrangement with Eventscorp’s Regional Events Program, which is funded by the Western Australian Government’s Royalties for Regions. CinéfestOZ acknowledges its strong partnership with ScreenWest, Western Australia’s screen funding and development agency.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2018

winner form y separately published work icon Jirga Benjamin Gilmour , ( dir. Benjamin Gilmour ) Australia : Felix Media Pty Ltd , 2018 14350660 2018 single work film/TV

'A modern morality tale about a former Australian soldier, Mike, who returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system – the Jirga.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Year: 2016

winner form y separately published work icon Girl Asleep Matthew Whittet , ( dir. Rosemary Myers ) Australia : Soft Tread Enterprises Windmill Pictures , 2015 7389221 2015 single work film/TV

Girl Asleep is a film adaptation of the acclaimed 2014 play of the same name. It follows shy teenager Greta Driscoll as life takes unexpected turns in the lead up to her fifteenth birthday.

recipient (Screen Legend Award) Gillian Armstrong

Year: 2015

winner form y separately published work icon Putuparri and the Rainmakers Nicole Ma , ( dir. Nicole Ma ) Australia : Sensible Films , 2015 8762820 2015 single work film/TV

'Against the backdrop of Australia's tangled colonial and Indigenous history, Putuparri and the Rainmakers explores one man's struggle to fulfil his destiny.'

'Tom "Putuparri" Lawford is a man caught between two worlds: his past and present in modern society, where he battles with alcoholism and domestic violence; and his future as a leader of his people, reconnecting with his ancestral lands, learning about his traditional culture and shouldering his responsibility to pass this knowledge on to the next generation.' (Source: MIFF website)

Year: 2014

inaugural winner ($100 000 prize) form y separately published work icon Paper Planes Steve Worland , Robert Connolly , ( dir. Robert Connolly ) Australia : Footprint Fims , 2014 6351167 2014 single work film/TV children's

'Young Dylan, from a small outback town, dreams of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/8/2013)

Works About this Award

Gillian Armstrong : I Used to Think, 'I Did It, Why Can't All the Other Women?' James Robert Douglas , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 August 2016;
'The director has been given CinefestOz’s Screen Legend award – the first woman to feature in its walk of fame'
Jasper Jones among Finalists for CinefestOz, Australia's Richest Film Festival Prize Roxanne Taylor , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2016;
'West Australian film Jasper Jones has been chosen as a finalist for Australia's richest film festival prize and is set to have its world premiere screening at the event. ...'
'Rainmakers' Wins Film Prize 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 9 September no. 609 2015; (p. 4)

'Putuparri and the Rainmakers has won the 2015 CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize, Australia's richest film award...'

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