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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2020

winner form y separately published work icon Standing Up for Sunny Steven Vidler , ( dir. Steven Vidler ) Australia : See Pictures , 2019 16526779 2019 single work film/TV

'Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte stars in this charming Australian rom-com about a loner with cerebral palsy who is roped into helping a comedian (Philippa Northeast) overcome her shyness.

'Mitte, who has cerebral palsy in real life, gives a winning performance as Travis, a young man living in a ramshackle Sydney rental whose disability contributes to his social isolation and anger management issues. When he loses his maintenance job after lashing out at bullies, Travis ends up in a pub, where he puts his withering sarcasm to good use defending Sunny – a reluctant up-and-comer on the comedy circuit – from a sexist heckler. Soon Mikey (Sam Reid), the pub's owner and Sunny's overbearing boyfriend, hires Travis to help train Sunny in the art of the comeback, and naturally sparks ensue – along with romance and laughs aplenty. Standing Up for Sunny is a lively comedy with plenty to say about living with disability and discrimination.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival.

Year: 2019

winner form y separately published work icon Buoyancy Rodd Rathjen , ( dir. Rodd Rathjen ) Australia : Causeway Films , 2019 10722728 2019 single work film/TV

'An innocent Cambodian boy is enslaved on a Thai fishing trawler and soon realises that his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Year: 2018

inaugural winner form y separately published work icon Jirga Benjamin Gilmour , ( dir. Benjamin Gilmour ) Australia : Felix Media Pty Ltd , 2018 14350660 2018 single work film/TV

'A modern morality tale about a former Australian soldier, Mike, who returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system – the Jirga.'

Source: Screen Australia.

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