With gender equality a hot topic issue within the film and television industry, the Australian Directors Guild has announced their nominees for 2016, and a third are women.
In the Feature Film category, the nominees are Jocelyn Moorhouse for The Dressmaker, Sue Brooks for Looking for Grace, Jeremy Sims for Last Cab to Darwin and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler for Tanna.
The Documentary Feature category also contains a strong contingent of women with Jennifer Peedom nominated for her spectacular Everest doco Sherpa, Margot Nash for the experimental and autobiographical The Silences, Lisa Nicol for the inspiring Wide Open Sky, Stefan Moore and Susan Lambert for Tyke Elephant Outlaw, and Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe for their moving portrait of a romance with Remembering The Man.
The 2016 ADG Awards will be held on May 6 in Melbourne and tickets are on sale now.
The full list of film and television nominees can be found below. For commercial, music video, online project and student nominees, as well as further information, visit the ADG site.
TV DRAMA SERIAL
Geoffrey Nottage – Home & Away / Ep 6176
David Gould – Home & Away / Ep 6341
SHORT FILM
Darlene Johnson – Bluey
Jack Sheridan – Injury Time
Corrie Chen – Reg Makes Contact
Matthew Richards – The Disappearance of Willie Bingham
Brooke Goldfinch – Red Rover
TV COMEDY
Dena Curtis – 8MMM
Aboriginal Radio – Episode 2
Craig Melville – Maximum Choppage / Ep 4
Jonathan Brough – Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane / Ep 1
Sian Davies – The Ex PM / Ep 2 TV
DRAMA SERIES
Jeffrey Walker – Banished / S1, Ep7
Shawn Seet – Love Child / S2, Ep3
Emma Freeman – Glitch / S1, Ep1
Fiona Banks – The Dr. Blake Mysteries / S3, Ep3
Kevin Carlin – Wentworth / S3, Ep1
DOCUMENTARY STAND ALONE
Sophie Wiesner – Call Me Dad
David Mason – Cast from the Storm (TV version)
Sally Aitken – Getting Frank
Gehry Jane Manning – Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation
Darlene Johnson – The Redfern Story
CHILDREN’S TV DRAMA
Daina Reid – Ready For This / Ep4
Ian Reiser – Little Lunch: The Grandparents Day
Tony Krawitz – Ready For This / Ep13
Evan Clarry – Mako: Island of Secrets (AKA: Mermaids) / S2, Ep11
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Ivan O’Mahoney – Hitting Home / Ep 1
Cian O’Clery – Changing Minds – The Inside Story / S2, Ep2
Madeleine Parry – The Maddie Parry Series / Ep 2
Sally Aitken – The Great Australian Race Riot / Ep 1
TV MINI SERIES
Michael Rymer – Deadline Gallipoli / Ep 1
Peter Salmon – The Beautiful Lie / Ep 6
Kriv Stenders – The Principal / Ep 1
Shawn Seet – Peter Allen – Not The Boy Next Door / Ep 1
TELEMOVIE
Mark Joffe – House of Hancock
Jennifer Leacey – Mary – The Making of a Princess
Rachel Perkins – Redfern Now: Promise Me
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & FEATURE FILM
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Tickets are now available for the ADG Awards, which will take place on 6 May at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.
