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9 OCTOBER – 30 OCTOBER 2013 It's On Sydney Generic A5_New Logo 6/09/13 12:31 PM Page 1 CONTENTS WELCOME 05 GENERAL INFORMATION 07 ABOUT AFI 10 ABOUT AACTA 11 HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE 13 PRODUCTION DETAILS SHORT FICTION FILM 15 SHORT ANIMATION 21 visit sydney.com FEATURE FILM 27 for more information on great events, experiences and things to do SCREENINGS PROGRAM Image© Sydney Festival, Jamie Williams Jamie Festival, Sydney Image© SYDNEY 47 MELBOURNE 49 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 50 SPONSORS & PARTNERS 51 3 Good luck WELCOME AACTA Award Welcome to this year’s showcase short filmmakers, I hope that this of outstanding contemporary nomination for an AACTA Award contenders! Australian screen productions, each leads to opportunities both in vying for our nation’s highest screen Australia and internationally. accolades – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. It is now your privilege as AFI and AACTA members to view these This showcase heralds the beginning films – either at screenings in Sydney of the viewing and voting period and Melbourne, or via the online for the 3rd AACTA Awards, and platform, AACTA TV – and to vote to I’m delighted to see such an determine the winners. accomplished slate of short films and feature films competing, with many As we commence the 3rd AACTA having already achieved both critical Awards season I take this opportunity and audience acclaim, here and to thank our sponsors and partners abroad. who make our work in recognising Australian screen excellence possible. The 15 Feature Films in Competition span many genres, including I also thank our industry for their romantic comedy to horror, and big exceptional work which makes the budget dramas to intimate coming AACTA Awards so competitive and of age stories, and I look forward compelling, as well as our members to seeing which of these Australia’s for their invaluable and ongoing leading screen professionals narrow support. Thank you. down to a list of nominees. The Short Fiction Film and Short Animation nominees have been 5 chosen by a jury of industry Damian Trewhella professionals. As is an established AFI | AACTA CEO trajectory for many Australian Stories that stay with you GENERAL INFORMATION Welcome to the AACTA Awards Latecomers arriving after the Screenings, which are held for the scheduled start of a screening may purpose of judging the AACTA not be admitted. Awards. PRODUCTION DETAILS SCREENING SCHEDULE The synopses and production details Each film will be screened once in listed in the Judges Handbook Sydney and Melbourne. Please refer have been supplied and approved to the Screening Program at the back by the producer of each entered BRAVO! of the Judges Handbook. production. Every effort will be made to avoid VOTING changes to the screening schedule, Congratulations and best wishes AFI | AACTA members hold the however in the event that changes to all the AACTA Award contenders. exclusive privilege of voting in the must be made, all members will AACTA Awards. You’re all stars. receive direct email communication and changes will also be noted on All votes will be submitted on the the AACTA website (www.aacta.org). AACTA website, via an online voting The Star is proud to play its part as form. Only one voting form per a supporter of the AACTA Awards. ADMISSION REGULATIONS AFI | AACTA member per round will AFI | AACTA members receive be accepted. complimentary entry to all sessions, upon presentation of AFI | AACTA acknowledges that their membership cards at the it may not be possible for voting cinema box office at the time of the members to view all films in STAR.COM.AU screening. competition. Therefore, individual member votes shall be weighted to Please note that tickets cannot be reflect the percentage of films each obtained in advance of screenings. member has seen. All seating is offered on a first come, Further information on voting is first serve basis, and is strictly limited available on page 13 of the Judges by the capacity of each cinema. The Handbook. AFI | AACTA cannot guarantee entry to popular sessions. Ernst & Young is the scrutineer for the AACTA Awards. Persons under the age of 18 are restricted to sessions based on the classifications listed for each 7 80 PYRMONT STREET, SYDNEY 1800 700 700 film. Films without classification are restricted to persons aged 18 and over – proof of age may be required. STAR0422_AACTA_210x148.indd 1 13/09/13 5:06 PM GENERAL INFORMATION AACTA TV The Short Fiction Film and Short Animation nominees, and a selection of Feature Films in Competition will be showcased for all AFI | AACTA members on AACTA TV during the AACTA Awards Screenings period. To access AACTA TV, please visit www.aacta.org/aacta-tv. NOMINEES AND WINNERS Nominees will be announced at the AACTA Awards Nominations Announcement later in 2013. Winners in all categories will be announced and presented at the AACTA Awards in January 2014. INFORMATION For more information regarding AFI |AACTA Membership or the AACTA Awards Screenings, please contact AFI | AACTA: E [email protected] [email protected] T 1300 139 697 W www.aacta.org 9 ABOUT AFI ABOUT AACTA The Australian Film Institute (AFI) The Australian Academy of Cinema MEMBERSHIP was created in 1958 by those with a and Television Arts (AACTA) was “AACTA membership denotes pride passion for film. launched by the Australian Film and passion for Australia’s screen Institute (AFI) in August 2011, with the industry. It shows dedication to Today, alongside the Australian primary role of identifying, awarding, furthering screen craft excellence, Academy of Cinema and Television promoting and celebrating Australia’s particularly by voting in the AACTA Arts (AACTA), which is the AFI’s greatest achievements in film and Awards, and shows a desire to professional membership body, the television. connect the industry across all crafts, AFI continues to support, encourage as represented by the Academy.” and promote Australian screen Australia has produced some of Geoffrey Rush, AACTA President culture. the best screen practitioners and productions in the world, and an Members help shape the Australian CALLING ALL SCREEN AACTA TV important part of AACTA’s role is to screen industry, particularly by the AACTA TV is yet another way we recognise this through the annual privilege of judging and voting in ENTHUSIASTS AACTA Awards – Australia’s highest the peer-assessed AACTA Awards, AFI membership is open to promote and share access to screen accolades. ensuring that those best qualified to everyone – those with a passion for premium Australian screen content. recognise excellence do so. film and television, those studying it Members are offered exclusive and those emerging in the industry. access to this online screening CONNECTING THE platform, providing an opportunity AACTA also facilitates professional INDUSTRY development for members, including One of the most important benefits to watch the year’s nominated Short AACTA is a not-for-profit, member by partnering with Guilds to provide AFI members receive is the right Fiction Films and Short Animations, organisation. AACTA membership screen craft forums, and also provides to vote in the AACTA Awards. AFI and gain access to other quality is granted exclusively to film and networking opportunities at events members vote for the winner of the curated content. television professionals, each from a throughout the year. Best Short Fiction Film and Best Short cross-section of the screen industry Animation in the 3rd AACTA Awards. We thank our screen-loving members including production across all Other benefits include complimentary for their ongoing support and screen crafts, distribution, exhibition screenings and special member rates Other member benefits include enthusiasm for Australian screen and television networks. at national cinemas, film festivals and film giveaways and updates via culture. for industry magazine subscriptions. Facebook and Twitter, and cinema, The Australian Academy is overseen film festival and screen magazine JOIN US by AACTA President Geoffrey discounts. Join us in our quest to celebrate Rush and an Honorary Council BECOME A MEMBER Australian screen excellence. - a selection of Australia’s most To apply for AACTA membership and By supporting AFI | AACTA through outstanding and highly skilled for more information: membership, you are helping to E [email protected] screen craft specialists, each chosen recognise Australia’s best and T 1300 139 697 because of their contribution to the E [email protected] brightest screen talent, creating new W www.aacta.org industry, and each representing T 1300 139 697 opportunities for our industry. AACTA’s 15 screen craft chapters, W www.aacta.org from cinematography and costume 10 design, to screenwriting and 11 directing. HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE AACTA MEMBERS AFI MEMBERS In line with best-practice international Membership of the Australian Film models, the 3rd AACTA Awards will Institute (AFI) is open to all screen again employ a two-step voting enthusiasts. AFI members are model for Feature Film voting. provided the opportunity to vote in the categories of Best Short Fiction Feature Film voting is open to AACTA Film and Best Short Animation in the members – screen professionals who 3rd AACTA Awards. have undergone an accreditation process to become an AACTA For more information on voting in the member. 3rd AACTA Awards, please visit www.aacta.org. In round one of Feature Film voting, each chapter of AACTA votes to determine a short list of nominees in the applicable award category collaborate specific to that chapter. create In round two, all members of AACTA can vote on this shortlist of nominees connect to determine the winner. This two-step model allows for celebrate a more consistent and rigorous approach to voting, and will ensure that practitioners best qualified to recognise excellence in their specific crafts are short listing nominees on which the broader AACTA membership then vote.