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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2014
winner form y
Mystery Road
Moree Girls
( dir. Ivan Sen
)
Australia
:
Mystery Road Films
,
2013
Z1870365
2013
single work
film/TV
Jay Swan, a detective, returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found near a trucking route out of town.
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Year: 2012
winner form y
Snowtown
The Snowtown Murders
( dir. Justin Kurzel
)
Australia
:
Warp Films Australia
,
2010
Z1679026
2010
single work
film/TV
crime
horror
Sixteen-year-old Jamie feels isolated by the poverty of his surroundings, his lack of a father figure, and his mother's preoccupation with his younger, more demanding brothers. So when he falls in with the charismatic and much older John, he is slowly drawn into John's world of homophobia, violence, and murder.
