St Kilda Film Festival, Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, is pleased to announce the 2018 award nominees in the running for more than $50,000 worth of cash and prizes across 17 categories.
City of Port Phillip Mayor Bernadene Voss says the Council is excited to announce the high calibre award nominees ahead of Saturday’s Closing Night Ceremony.
Cr Voss said that the 2018 St Kilda Film Festival’s most prestigious title of Best Short Film will see one of four nominees take home a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of the City of Port Phillip. This year’s nominees for Best Short Film are The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lost Property Office, Mrs McCutcheon and Eye Contact.
“The City of Port Phillip is always proud to be able to showcase the innovative and inspiring films created and starred in by some of Australia’s best talent. The St Kilda Film Festival has an incredible variety of films shown in this year’s program. We look forward to revealing the winners of the 35th St Kilda Film Festival awards later this week at the Closing Night event”, Cr Voss said.

The St Kilda Film Festival’s Top 100 Films are judged by a panel of industry professionals, with the 2018 judging panel made up of Edwina Exton, Cassandra Magrath and Neil Pigot. This year’s winners will be announced at the St Kilda Film Festival’s Closing Night Awards on Saturday 26 May at the St Kilda Town Hall.

2018 ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL NOMINATIONS:

Best Short Film
– The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald
– Lost Property Office
– Mrs McCutcheon
– Eye Contact

Craft Award
– The Land Will Eat You
– Eye Contact
– Cooee

Best Director
– Alex Ryan – Red Ink
– John Sheedy – Mrs McCutcheon
– Shaun Perry & Jay Perry – The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald
– Daniel Agdag – Lost Property Office

Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking
– A Life Together
– Coat of Arms
– Welcome to Country

Best Documentary
– A Life Together
– One Shot
– The Ryan James Project
– Mister Herschell

Best Comedy
– Carnal Privilege
– The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald
– Partners
– For Your Sins

Best Animation
– Lost Property Office
– I’m Still Here
– Ambulance
– Last Tree Standing

Best Actor
– David Smith – Partners
– Oscar Redding – Red Ink
– Matilda Ridgway – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
– Eliza Scanlen – Grace

Best Achievement in Cinematography
– James L Brown – Black Lips
– Ryan Alexander Lloyd – Eye Contact
– Warwick Thornton – Coat of Arms
– Sky Davies – Mrs McCutcheon

Best Achievement in Screenplay
– Ben Young – Mrs McCutcheon
– Dylan River – Coat of Arms
– Raphael Elisha – Girl of the Sky
– Shaun Perry & Jay Perry – The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Achievement in Editing
– Marcus D’Arcy – Coat of Arms
– Simon Direen – A Life Together
– Sophia Bender – Behind Barres
– Toby Morris and Ben Zemanek – Cooee

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
– 3 Block Studio and Jongsu Oh – Pilè
– Alt VFX – Fysh
– Bertrand Polivka – How The Light Gets In
– Vardan Karapetyan – Last Tree Standing

Best Young Actor
– Alex Kis – Disco Dykes
– Asal Shenaveh – Waterfall
– Bethany Whitmore – Mwah
– Wesley Patten – Mrs McCutcheon

Best Achievement in Sound Post Production
– Chris Goodes – Lost Property Office
– Liam Egan – Coat of Arms
– Markus Kellow – Fysh
– Matt Read – The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Original Score
– Dami Summers – Partners
– Haydn Walker – Girl of the Sky
– Michael Yezerski – Fysh
– Red Ink

Best Youth Short Film
– Cardiac Relations
– Don’t Call Me Beautiful
– iRony

As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary will also be eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary Shorts Award categories.