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SPAARTAN Award Winner Announced
November 20, 2009 15:18
2009 DigiSPAA Digital Feature Film Competition
Khoa Do, Producer & Director of Missing Water
The winner of the prestigious ‘SPAARTAN Award’ for the 2009 DigiSPAA Feature Film Competition, sponsored by Movie Network Channels, was announced at the Screen Producers Association of Australia’s (SPAA) annual conference.
Award-winning producer/director Khoa Do has taken home the prize for his ground breaking film Missing Water. Filmed entirely on the Red One HD camera, Do recreated the experiences of four Vietnamese refugees fleeing in a dilapidated river boat across the open seas, within the confines of a clothes making factory in suburban Sydney.
Missing Water impressed the judges with its startling creativity and ability to immerse its audience in such a striking story, using sewing tables, machines, clothes racks and sound effects to recreate the ‘boat’, and special effects that ‘weathered’ the props and actors as their harrowing journey unfolded.
Presented with the prestigious SPAARTAN Award, Khao Do will also receive $15,000 cash, $20,000 worth of post-production, a guaranteed screening of their film on the Movie Extra channel, plus a return airfare and free registration to the prestigious CineMart International Film Festival Rotterdam.
DigiSPAA is a creative project of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) an industry body that represents Australian independent film and television producers on all issues affecting the business and creative aspects of screen production.
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