This week marked the real end of the school year for me, with the screening of the graduating films at Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square in Melbourne. It was a very celebratory night for just about everyone there with speeches, awards, screenings of about 1/4 of the graduating films and a hoochy media party afterwards.
My Directors, Kyle and Tonnette, and I did pretty well with out two films, Serenade and Wally, being nominated for five awards (including best film and best producer) and winning three, Best Cinematography, Best Third Year Director and Best Visual Effects. For only just being out of the gate, I am pretty jazzed to already have some recognition for the films we all worked so hard on this year.
The next steps for the films will be to enter them into festivals including Cannes, Berlin and Oberhausen to name a few. The best thing for us now would be to win an international level festival,and that includes Sydney and Melbourne. The competition is stiff, but the films are good so we will try and see where we get to.
I was very lucky this year with both Kyle and Tonnette. They are both not only talented, but professional, easy to work with and good people. Sometimes you don’t get out of the film making process with friendships, but I think we did ok.
There are three other people who made this year possible for me, Shirley, Marie and James. They all believed in me in their own ways and I hope their faith has been rewarded.
So now its on to 2006, the VCA Masters program and the next step in my film career.
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