‘Open Category’ winner with 10,000 awarded by Bengalla
Jason King
‘Rover’
‘Secondary Schools’ winner with 5,000 AUD awarded by Bengalla
Erin May Ryan
‘Spoons’
Best Local Film
Samantha Dennis-Serhan
‘Wild Country’
Best Actor
Shane Hanrahan
‘Wild Country’
Best Actress
Teddy
‘Wild Country,
Best Director
Jack Barrett
‘The Ferocious Beast’
Best Cinematography
Jason King
‘Rover’
Best Production Design
Shimmy Yang
‘Homework’
Best Doggo
Loki & Harley
‘The Working Dog – one day at a time’
Best Doggo
Nellie
‘Memories of Nellie’
Best Doggo
Ivy & Maggie
‘Working Dog Expert’
Highly Commended Certificates – Open Category
- Bryan Fisher – ‘Revenge of the Short People’
- Caleb Leneham & Tom Wilson- ‘Fetch and Co’
- Hugo Morgan – ‘Hair of the Dog’
- Jacob Ian Mitchell Borradaile & Joanne Louise Kelly – ‘Memories of Nellie’
- Chris Buckley – ‘The Working Dog One Day at a Time’
- Dominic Fitzgerald – ‘Waiting for Herefordot’
Highly Commended certificates – secondary category:
- Ethan Ickowicz & Zac Ickowicz – Working Dogs: The Dogumentary
- Lachlan O’brien & Max Nightingale – The Underground
- Carl Ross & Phoenix Mcleod – 1950’s detective movie
- Jessica Freda Ash & Maya Balkin – A Day In The Life At Bennify
- Finley York – Dogma
- Jack Danger Barrett & Charlie McGovern – The Ferocious Beast
The Blue Heeler Film Festival is organised by Muswellbrook Shire Council in partnership with the University of Newcastle with prizes sponsored by Bengalla