The winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary will also be eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary Shorts Award categories.
The 2022 St Kilda Film Festival’s most prestigious title of Best Short Film will see one of five nominees take home a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of City of Port Phillip. This year’s nominees for Best Short Film are Baltasar, The Better Angels, The Mirror, Mars and Freedom Swimmer.
The Craft Award winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize recognising excellence in filmmaking. Sponsored by VicScreen, the nominees for the Craft Award are Freedom Swimmer, Bleue’s Breath, Bunker: The Last Fleet, and Miss Underwater.
“This year’s judging was just about the most difficult, and at the same time rewarding, experience in mounting the festival,” said Festival Director, Richard Sowada. “In all honesty our judges could have discussed and debated films and film craft all weekend and I hope that kind of rigour, respect and spirit is reflected in the strength and quality of the final selections.”
The St Kilda Film Festival’s Top Short Films are judged by a panel of industry professionals, with the 2022 judging panel made up of Emma Bortignon (You Won’t Be Alone, the Netflix smash hit Clickbait and NBCU’s La Brea), Johanna Kelly (Like Lambs, Chris Hemsworth’s Centr fitness app videos) and Pauline Clague (Artistic Director of Winda Film Festival in Sydney).
This year’s winners will be announced at the St Kilda Film Festival’s Closing Night Awards on Sunday 5 June, taking place online.
Now in its 39th year St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF) returns to the big screen across Friday 27 May – Sunday 5 June 2022. SKFF is Australia’s longest-running short film festival, recognising the genre of short film, including music videos, gaming and immersive forms, celebrating some of Australia’s best local short filmmakers and screen artists.
Tickets are now on sale at: www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au
SKFF is supported by major government partners Screen Australia and VicScreen.
Full list of award winners:
Best Original Score
Supported by House of Marley
Nominees:
Joseph Franklin (Mourning Country)
Madeleine Cocolas (The Moths Will Eat Them Up)
Sean Timms (The Better Angels)
Jackson Mico Milas (Giants)
Best Achievement in Sound Post-Production
Supported by Music & Effects and the Australian Screen Sound Guild
Nominees:
Jennifer Leonforte (The Moths Will Eat Them Up)
Anonymous (Freedom Swimmer)
Doron Kipen & Jennifer Aldred (Nest)
Samuel Rodwell (Inferno)
Best Achievement in Editing
Supported by Roar Digital and Adobe
Nominees:
Raymond Evans (Mars)
Ryan de Rooy (There’s Someone Here)
Veronica Buhagiar (Farmers)
Stig Wemyss (Hatchback)
Best Achievement in Screenplay
Supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild and Cinema Nova
Nominees:
Brietta Hague (Baltasar)
Joel Kohn (The Mirror)
Tony Radevski (Risen)
Madeleine Gottlieb (You and Me Before and After)
Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking
Supported by Post Lab IO
Nominees:
Bunker: The Last Fleet
Shiny One
Tooly
Finding Jedda
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Supported by the Australian Cinematographers Society and Blackmagic Design
Nominees:
Robby Piantanida (Miss Underwater)
Kieran Fowler (Giants)
Samuel Rodwell (Inferno)
Ellery Ryan ACS (Amissa Anima)
Best Young Actor
Supported by Profile Creative
Nominees:
Riley Styles (Amissa Anima)
Maya Robinson (Alba)
Winta McGrath (Risen)
Ingrid Torelli (The Mirror)
Best Actor
Supported by Chameleon Casting
Nominees:
Scott Johnson (Alba)
Ras Samuel Welda’abzgi (BLVCK GOLD)
Ling Cooper Tang (The Moths Will Eat Them Up)
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay (You and Me Before and After)
Best Animation
Supported by JMC Academy
Nominees:
Bleue’s Breath
The Better Angels
Freedom Swimmer
Forgotten
Best Documentary
Supported by Shaun Miller Lawyers
Nominees:
Betty and Bushy
Acts for the Invisible
Freedom Swimmer
Inferno
Best Director
Supported by the Australian Directors’ Guild
Nominees:
Tony Radevski (Risen)
Brietta Hague (Baltasar)
Eddy Bell (Giants)
Raymond J Evans (Mars)
Craft Award
Supported by VicScreen
Nominees:
Freedom Swimmer
Bleue’s Breath
Bunker: The Last Fleet
Miss Underwater
Best Short Film Award
Supported by City of Port Phillip
Nominees:
Baltasar
The Better Angels
The Mirror
Mars
Freedom Swimmer
Under the Radar – Best Youth Short Film
Supported by City of Port Phillip
Nominees:
Blue Belt
Before We’re Gone
Reflexions
Various shades of off-white
