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Telemovie - Original
Subcategory of AWGIE Awards
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History

Note: There were no nominees for Original Telemovie in 2014.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner form y separately published work icon Mary : Making of a Princess Samantha Strauss , ( dir. Jennifer Leacey ) Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Network Ten , 2016 8570346 2016 single work film/TV

'Twenty-eight-year-old Mary Donaldson has all but given up on love when one night she goes to the pub and meets a prince. But falling in love is the easy part, compared to what it takes for an Australian girl to become the future Crown Princess of Denmark.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Year: 2015

winner form y separately published work icon The House of Hancock Gina Vs Rose : The House Of Hancock Paul Bennett , Katherine Thomson , ( dir. Mark Joffe ) 2015 Australia : Cordell Jigsaw Productions Nine Network , 2015 7704808 2015 series - publisher film/TV

'A sweeping saga of empires rising and falling as the world’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, fights to maintain and expand the mining dynasty left to her by her father, whilst her children sue her for their share of the multi-billion dollar inheritance.' (Production summary)

Year: 2013

winner form y separately published work icon Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , ( dir. Robert Connolly ) Australia : Network Ten Matchbox Pictures , 2012 Z1861848 2012 single work film/TV

'Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, Underground follows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends — the International Subversives — as they try to break into the computer systems of the worlds most powerful organisations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms with the technologies, with each other, and with the Senior AFP Detective who is intent on shutting down their group.'

Source: Australian Television in Production website.

Year: 2012

winner form y separately published work icon Mabo Sue Smith , ( dir. Rachel Perkins ) Sydney : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2011 Z1792989 2011 single work film/TV

'Tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 20/5/2014)

Year: 2011

winner form y separately published work icon Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here Peter Gawler , ( dir. Shawn Seet ) Australia : Screentime , 2011 Z1758111 2011 single work film/TV crime

'In 1998 two masked bandits undertook a series of hits on Asian restaurants in Melbourne, leaving a dire message for victims to give police: "Tell them Lucifer was here." A police sting known as Operation Hamada was set up to get them. But in the middle of a stakeout, two policemen Gary Silk and Rod Miller were killed in cold-blood on a lonely street in Moorabbin.'

Source: www.tvtonight.com.au (Sighted 05/10/2011).

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