By Travis Johnson
Seven winners were picked from a field of 88 entries for the 2016 MIFF Shorts Awards, which were announced last night. The winners shared a total cash prize pool of $42,000, with the Best Short, Best Australian Film and Best documentary winners now eligible to submit their films to the upcoming 89th Academy Awards.
And the winners are…
Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Best Experimental Short Film
Nightlife (Cyprien Gaillard, director; Simone Manwarring andSprüth Magers, producers)
RMIT University for Best Documentary Short Film
Fairy Tales (Rongfei Guo, director; Rongfei Guo, Kit Chung, producers)
SAE Award for Best Animation Short Film
Deer Flower (Kangmin Kim, director and producer)
Cinema Nova Award for Best Fiction Short Film
In The Year of Monkey (Wregas Bhanuteja, director and producer)
Swinburne Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker
Luci Schroder for Slapper
Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film
Trespass (Mirrah Foulkes, director; Alex White, Producer)
City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film
Mrs. Metro (Aggelos Papantoniou, director; Mark Lycette, producer)
The 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival runs 28 July – 14 August. For tickets and session times, head to the official site.
