Bill Warnock Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Bill Warnock Award was created in 2001 to commemorate and continue Bill Warnock’s legacy of powerful and imaginative storytelling which was instrumental to the WA screen industry.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2011

winner Damien Spiccia for Beyond the Pale

Year: 2010

Yilgarn Street Regan Bennett , 2011 single work drama

Year: 2009

winner form y separately published work icon Falling Star The Flying Fleas Meg Shields , 2009 (Manuscript version)x402188 Z1832095 2009 single work film/TV

'A dyslexic wildchild, frustrated by her father's obsession with her sister's Olympic aspirations, fights to enter the first kids' team in a grueling outback marathon race and be seen as a star in her own right.

A feature family film based on an actual marathon event held in outback Australia for 38 years.'

Source: Falling Star website, www.fallingstar.com.au (sighted: 13/12/2011)

Under the title: The Flying Fleas
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