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Sydneysiders Shine at SCINEMA Awards
Successfully mixing science and cinema, Sydney filmmakers took out four gongs.
With winning films to be screened at over 300 venues across Australia during National Science Week (August 14-22), the SCINEMA awards are a coveted prize for scientific filmmakers.
This year, Sydney filmmakers have taken out the top prizes at the SCINEMA Festival of Science Film Competition competing against filmmakers from countries around the world.
Established in 2000, the festival aims to promote science and arts through film. Festival Director Cris Kennedy said he was thrilled by the number and quality of entrants this year. "We waded through five hundred international entries for the festival this year, and it was obvious that Australian science and documentary filmmaking is world-leading stuff."
Sydney filmmaker Ian Walker won Best Director for his film I, Psychopath which follows Sam Vaknin, a man travelling through Europe with his wife to visit a psychologist and neuroscientist in an attempt to understand the extent and root of his psychopathic tendencies.
Sydney Production Company Essential Media won Best Film for How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer. The film is based on the premise of six degrees of separation and the physicists who have decided to undertake an international experiment in the hope of changing the world.
The Best Television series went to Whatever! The Science of Teens, a program dedicated to understanding why children change so much when they reach adolescence.
With 2010 being the International Year of Biodiversity, the festival contains a strong focus on the way we interact with our environment and the animals we share it with, an evident trait in the work of many of the younger filmmakers.
Kayna Fichadia, a year two student at Epping North Primary School, was awarded best Primary Student film for her five minute film, Animal Diversity in Bondi. "I really enjoyed learning about biodiversity and it made me think I might want to study science," Kayna said.
A program of films from the SCINEMA Festival will be screened in schools, libraries, art galleries and museums. For more information, click here.
Picture caption: Student Film Winners (L-R): Claire Farrugia, Rory Young & Kayna Fichadia.