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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2018
winner form y Jirga ( 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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Year: 2016
winner form y Girl Asleep ( dir. Rosemary Myers ) Australia : Soft Tread Enterprises Windmill Pictures , 2015 7389221 2015 single work film/TVGirl Asleep is a film adaptation of the acclaimed 2014 play of the same name. It follows shy teenager Greta Driscoll as life takes unexpected turns in the lead up to her fifteenth birthday.
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Year: 2015
winner form y Putuparri and the Rainmakers ( dir. Nicole Ma ) Australia : Sensible Films , 2015 8762820 2015 single work film/TV'Against the backdrop of Australia's tangled colonial and Indigenous history, Putuparri and the Rainmakers explores one man's struggle to fulfil his destiny.'
'Tom "Putuparri" Lawford is a man caught between two worlds: his past and present in modern society, where he battles with alcoholism and domestic violence; and his future as a leader of his people, reconnecting with his ancestral lands, learning about his traditional culture and shouldering his responsibility to pass this knowledge on to the next generation.' (Source: MIFF website)
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Year: 2014
inaugural winner ($100 000 prize) form y Paper Planes ( dir. Robert Connolly ) Australia : Footprint Fims , 2014 6351167 2014 single work film/TV children's'Young Dylan, from a small outback town, dreams of competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/8/2013)
Works About this Award
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Girl Asleep Wins Australia's Richest Film Prize at CinefestOz 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 28 August 2016; -
Gillian Armstrong : I Used to Think, 'I Did It, Why Can't All the Other Women?' 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 August 2016; 'The director has been given CinefestOz’s Screen Legend award – the first woman to feature in its walk of fame' -
Jasper Jones among Finalists for CinefestOz, Australia's Richest Film Festival Prize 2016 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2016; 'West Australian film Jasper Jones has been chosen as a finalist for Australia's richest film festival prize and is set to have its world premiere screening at the event. ...' -
'Rainmakers' Wins Film Prize 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 9 September no. 609 2015; (p. 4)'Putuparri and the Rainmakers has won the 2015 CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize, Australia's richest film award...'