FILMMAKER
AUSTRALIA
Sydney Film Festival closed last night, and I was thrilled to have been Highly Commended in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films for TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW!
Thanks to all the staff and volunteers at the festival for putting on such a spectacular program, and to everyone who came out to watch our world premiere. It was pretty special.
Read more about all the Sydney Film Festival award winners at bit.ly/2tnzxQI
I'm absolutely over the moon to share that TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW will have its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival, as one of just 10 finalists in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films!
Also premiering in the Dendy Awards is A BIRTHDAY PARTY, written and directed by my VCA mate, W.A.M. Bleakley, and produced by Lucy Knox and me. What a year!
For more information about the Dendy Awards and to book your tickets, visit bit.ly/1wXOd5O
On Friday 5 May, I travelled to Melbourne for the Australian Directors' Guild Awards, where I was thrilled to be nominated for Best Direction in a Student Film for TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW.
It was an was an honour to be nominated for a second time, among such esteemed peers, and I was delighted for my friend and VCA classmate, Meaghan Palmer, who received the award in our category for her short film, TASTY.
You can read more about the event, as well as the full list of winners and nominees, in this ArtsHub article.
I'm very excited to be one of 20 filmmakers shortlisted from more than 280 submissions for the 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, in association with Sydney Film Festival.
The Fellowship is the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia, with up to four Fellowship winners receiving $50,000 each to produce their next short film in 2017, to premiere at the 65th Sydney Film Festival in 2018.
An industry panel, led by Australian actor David Wenham, will assess each finalist’s proposed short film project with the four successful fellows to be announced at Sydney Film Festival in June 2017.
Last night TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW won Best Masters Narrative Production at the Victorian College of the Arts Film & Television Awards! I was also honoured to be nominated for the Sarah Watt Award for a female director.