IF Awards deadline 17 September
Time is fast running out to have your say on which Australian film was
the best of the year in the Inside Film
Awards.
It's been another cracking year for local films and the IF
Awards have announced the 15 front-runners for the coveted People's Choice
award. They range from the heart-breaking The Boys are Back to hit Indigenous musical Bran Nue Day and explosive drama Animal Kingdom. The list includes the adaptation
of John Marsden's much loved teen action series, Tomorrow, When the
War Began, and Matching Jack, a tearjerking story of childhood cancer. If you
haven't seen the films on the list then we suggest you get cracking and then
cast your votes online at IF Awards.
The categories include Best Feature Film, Best Actor/Actress, Best Script and
Best Director.
Rating for the Inside Film Awards closes on 17 September 2010 - make sure that your vote for Australian cinema is heard.
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Animal Kingdom premiere hosted by Time Out and Inside Film Awards
Inside Film Magazine
The top 15 are:
Accidents Happen
An Australian-made flick set in the USA, starring Geena Davis as the mother of a severely accident-prone family.
Animal
Kingdom
A powerful Aussie crime drama roars into cinemas.
David
Michôd on Animal Kingdom
Beneath
Hill 60
Brendan Cowell stars in a new movie hailing a decisive Australian
contribution to WWI.
The Boys Are Back
Clive Owen is a father attempting to raise his two sons in the wake of the death of his wife.
Bran Nue Dae
The second biggest Indigenous-themed film in Australian history, and a musical at that.
Bright Star
Jane Campion's latest frock show has the power to haunt despite its
longueurs.
Charlie and Boots
A concerned son played by Shane Jacobson drags his grieving dad, Paul Hogan, across the country to have the fishing trip they always talked about.
Daybreakers
Vampires have hunted the human race nearly to extinction in the new
eco-chiller from Australia's Spierig Brothers.
I Love You Too
Brendan Cowell and Peter Dinklage star in Peter Helliar's surprisingly touching romcom.
The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2
The wog boys are back, a little older, not much wiser and heading to Greece.
Mao's Last Dancer
Bruce Beresford delivers one of his best films in the story of Chinese
ballet star Li Cunxin.
Matching Jack
Matching Jack is the story of a woman betrayed by her husband and desperately seeks a donor to save her son's life.
Tomorrow, When the War Began
The film of John Marsden's first book in the Tomorrow series sees a group of teenagers fight to defend their small town from a foreign invading force.
Triangle
Melissa George stars in this horror flick set in the Bermuda Triangle, where nothing good ever happens.
The
Waiting City
Aussies attempt to adopt a child in Calcutta in Claire McCarthy's
debut feature.
2009 Inside Film Awards - Winners
Samson & Delilah sweeps IF Awards 2009
They were plenty of stars at Luna Park in Sydney to celebrate the 11th annual Kodak Inside Film Awards on Wednesday night. The blissfully short ceremony was hosted by comedian Eddie Perfect, who wrote two songs for the show, with Sam Worthington, Jan Chapman, Kirk Pengilly, Peter O'Brien, Jacqueline McKenzie, Megan Gale, Adam Elliot, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Scott Hicks among the celebrity presenters.
Cannes Camera D'Or winner Samson & Delilah took out the SHOWTIME IF Best Film Award for Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper. First timers Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara overcame serious competition from Hugo Weaving, Frances O'Connor, Anthony La Paglia and Sacha Horler to win the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively. Warwick Thornton also took out the honours with the NFSA Best Director IF Award.
The award for Living Legend went to Australian cinema innovator Baz Luhrmann. Said Kodak IF Award General Manager Clare Sawyer, "His contribution to world cinema as a genre-defying director is undeniable. With only four films to his name he has revolutionised cinema, time and time, again both here and internationally.
Luhrmann quipped that he was glad to be the "youngest" ever recipient of the award.
In addition Australia took out the top gong for Best Box Office Success over the past year, having taken over $37,555,144 at the box office.
Feature film Balibo didn't walk away empty handed winning the Zig Zag Lane Best Sound and AVID Best Editing categories on the night while Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate picked up the Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography.
Independent Spirit was heralded by Granaz Mousavi, Kate Croser and Julie Ryan with their remarkable feature film made in Iran My Tehran for Sale. The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent went to producer and director Dominic Allen of Scarab Studio Films whose short film Two Men was one of the hits of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The awards were rounded off with the announcement of The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, the story of an Irish penal convict who was hanged in Hobart in 1824 for murder and cannibalism, as the winner of the FACB IF Award for Best Documentary.
The breadth of Australian film talent was clearly evident in the Short Film categories from the Nick Cave narrated winner of the Autodesk IF Award for Best Animation The Cat Piano, the Deborah Mailman directed teen love story Ralph took home the Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film and the moving story of homelessness told solely through a camera phone in the winner of the Production Book IF Award for Best Short Documentary, Mankind Is No Island by Jason Van Genderen.
Evidencing the relationship between film and music, Warwick Thornton won the Dinosaur Design IF Award for Best Music for Samson & Delilah while Dan Reisinger took home the Chaotic Pictures IF Award for Best Music Video for Short Stack's 'Sway Sway Baby'.
In what has been a fantastic year for Indigenous film, the 2009 Kodak IF Awards were delighted to award the TDC IF Award for Best Film Festival to Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival.
