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With the final nominees officially released last week we have perused this year’s honour roll and spotted the following AFTRS people up for a prestigious AFI award:

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES:

Spirited Jacquelin Perske (Screenwriting 1994) with Claudia Karvan and John Edwards.

The Circuit, Series 2 Ross Hutchens (Directing 1986) with Colin South

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY: The Snowman AFTRS Foundation lecturer Rachel Landers along with Dylan Blowen

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FICTION FILM: AFTRS short film The Love Song Of Iskra Prufrock made by AFTRS graduate Lucy Gaffy (Directing 2009) and current Producing student Lyn Norfor

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER ONE HOUR: You Only Live Twice ‐ The Incredibly True Story Of The Hughes Family. AFTRS Head of Documentary, Ruth Cullen.

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST EDITING IN A DOCUMENTARY Contact Tania Nehme (Editing 1991)

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION & MACQUARIE AFI AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Bright Star. Jane Campion (Directing 1984)

- MACQUARIE AFI AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Bran Nue Dae Rachel Perkins (Producing 1996) along with Reg Cribb and Jimmy Chi.

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Waiting City Denson Baker ACS 
(Cinematography 2001)

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST SOUND Animal Kingdom Sam Petty (Editing 1991) with Rob Mackenzie and Philippe Decrausaz

Beneath Hill 60 Liam Egan (Sound 1987), Alicia Slusarki (Sound 1992), Tony Murtagh (Sound 1991) with Mark Cornish

Tomorrow When The War Began Robert Sullivan (Sound 1987) with Andrew Plain, David Lee and Gethin Creagh

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Animal Kingdom Antony Partos (Sound 1991) and Sam Petty (Editing 1991)

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN’S TELEVISION ANIMATION The Legend Of Enyo Avrill Stark (Producing 1994) with Michael Christensen

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST TELEFEATURE, MINI SERIES OR SHORT RUN SERIES A Model Daughter: The Killing Of Caroline Byrne Karl Zwicky (Cinematography 1982)

- AFI AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY IN TELEVISION Tangle, Season 2 – Episode 15, Sleepwalking Fiona Seres (Television 1998)

Image: Production still from AFTRS short film ‘The Lovesong of Iskra Prufrock

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AFTRS people nominated for IF awards

by the redset on October 19, 2010


Yesterday the nominees for the 2010 IF awards were
announced with nine AFTRS graduates nominated for
awards across key categories.

The AFTRS honour IF award roll includes:

The AFTRS IF Award for Best Direction
Rachel Perkins for Bran Nue Dae

The SA FILM IF Award for Best Sound
Sam Petty for Animal Kingdom
Robert Sullivan, Liam Egan, Tony Murtagh for Beneath Hill 60
John Dennison & Tony Vaccher for Bright Star

The Dyson IF Award for Best Production Design
Felicity Abbott for Bran Nue Dae

The CineAlta by SONY IF Award for Best Cinematography
Denson Baker for The Waiting City

The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent

Adrian Wills and Craig Boreham

The School wishes best of luck to all of the AFTRS people who worked on the projects nominated for the 2010 IF awards.

Image:  Poster for Rachel Perkin’s ‘Bran Nue Day’

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Just over two weeks until 2011 applications close

October 15, 2010

DARE TO TRY Applications for AFTRS 2011 courses closing soon don’t miss your opportunity to learn from the best in business and experience life changing opportunities The Australian Film Television and Radio School, Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast School, attracts students from all over Australia who are driven to create, experiment and hone their [...]

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AFTRS & Cinema des Antipodes at Cannes

May 19, 2010

The competitive Cannes Film Festival is just one of the events running at festival time. Also taking place are official sidebar events as part of the Cannes Cinephiles program, and one of these is the Cinema des Antipodes a program of new and unseen features and shorts from Australia and New Zealand. This year the [...]

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Luminous LUMINA issue 3 available now

May 13, 2010

Issue 3 of LUMINA – the Australian Journal of Screen arts & Business is OUT NOW and the the best bit: you can now purchase copies from our NEW online store! ISSUE 3    ISBN 978-0-9806550-2-5 Featuring interviews with Jeffrey Katzenberg & Mike Selwyn. A memoir by Louis Nowra;Robert Connolly lays down a challenge on how [...]

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Segue: from Vogue Australia to Will Wright who says “game design, a lot like dealing drugs”

March 15, 2010

While posting a tweet on twitter this morning – about a gorgeous photo spread, shot here at AFTRS and featuring two of our fabulous graduates Kriv Stenders and Warwick Thornton, that accompanies an article on the Australian Film Industry {The New Wave, page 204}, in the latest issue of Australian Vogue – the red set [...]

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Luminous LUMINA – “a chunky effort”

March 4, 2010

Michael Bodey, over at the Australian, wrote some words yesterday about the second edition of LUMINA – a journal published by the AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION and RADIO SCHOOL which  incidentally is availale to order at bookstores now…. Michael’s words as they appeared in  Reeltime in  The Australian March 03, 2010: “THE second edition of the [...]

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Friday on my Mind: Great Adpatations with Jennifer Byrne

February 22, 2010

Friday on My mind this week:  Great Adpatations with Jennifer Byrne Feb 26 In light of one of Australia’s best loved novels Cloudstreet by Tim Winton being adapted into a 6 hour mini sereis commissioned by Showtime and set to start shooting in Perth, the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club host Jennifer Byrne will examine [...]

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Just one week to go – 2010 AFTRS course applications November 1 deadline

October 23, 2009

Just seven days to go  until we close applications for our 2010 courses With the most diverse and flexible suite of courses ever offered by the Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast School – 2010 is set to be a stellar year. AFTRS has fantastic new Graduate Certificate Courses on offer for next year that [...]

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Blast from the past – AFTRS grad crafting where the wild things are

October 5, 2009

Steve Newman: very tiny wild things Spotted in the LA times today is news that Miniatures and VFX DOP Steve Newman is doing “speccy work”on Where The Wild Things Are the upcominig feature from Spike Jonze Steve is one of our earliest cinematography grads and has also taught here over the years….. the piece reports [...]

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