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Festivals and Awards
This list shows some of the Screen Australia documentary programs that have screened in festivals or won awards in recent months, as well as some upcoming screenings.
Click on a particular title to find out more about that program (including a comprehensive list of festivals and awards) or to place an order.
Note: these are festival dates, not the screening dates for programs.
| Date | Program | Festival | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
December 2008 | |||
| 1/12/2008 | MobiDocs | Figuring Landscapes | 'Country Song' selected for UK and Australian Exhibition |
October 2008 | |||
| 19/10/2008 | Rare Chicken Rescue | Wildscreen - International Wildlife and Environmental Film Festival | Finalist - Animal Planet International People and Animals Award |
August 2008 | |||
| 24/8/2008 | Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? | SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia | Finalist |
| 24/8/2008 | Life at 1 | SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia | Finalist |
| 24/8/2008 | Winners' Guide to the Nobel Prize, The | SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia | Finalist |
| 9/8/2008 | MobiDocs | Melbourne International Film Festival | Coopers Festival Lounge Special Event Screenings |
July 2008 | |||
| 8/7/2008 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | RomaFictionFest | Finalist - Competitive Documentaries Section (Episode 1: A Likely Lad) |
| 1/7/2008 | Muddy Waters - Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef | Earth Vision - Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival | Winner - Special Jury Prize (2004) Screening as part of Best of Earth Vision '92 - '08 (2008) |
June 2008 | |||
| 13/6/2008 | Rare Chicken Rescue | Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards | Winner - Best Documentary |
| 7/6/2008 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of the Arts | Winner - Best Australian Produced Single Television Production (Jack Thompson episode) |
May 2008 | |||
| 31/5/2008 | Change the World in 5 Minutes | Newtown Flicks Short Film Festival | Hot Up A Shopping Trolley selected to screen. |
| 21/5/2008 | Moving History - 60 Years of Film Australia | Focal Awards | Highly commended - Award for Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms |
| 15/5/2008 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | Leo Awards | Winner - Best Documentary Series |
| 7/5/2008 | Change the World in 5 Minutes | St Kilda Film Festival | Finalist - Sam and Marni |
| 4/5/2008 | Constructing Australia : Bridge, The | TV Week Logie Awards | Winner - Most Outstanding Documentary |
| 4/5/2008 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | TV Week Logie Awards | Finalist - Most Outstanding Documentary |
| 2/5/2008 | Ceremony - The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land | Göttingen International Film Festival | |
| 1/5/2008 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Chicago International Television Competition Hugo Awards for Excellence in Television | Winner - Certificate of Merit, Educational/ Documentary Series |
March 2008 | |||
| 6/3/2008 | Who Do You Think You Are? | WA Screen Awards | Winner - Most Outstanding Documentary (Jack Thompson) |
February 2008 | |||
| 3/2/2008 | Growing Up and Going Home | Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films (MIFF) | Finalist - International Film and Video Competition |
| 1/2/2008 | Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? | Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards | Winner - Shot Documentary Category |
| 1/2/2008 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | Victoria Film Festival | Episode 4: Northwest Passage selected to screen |
January 2008 | |||
| 29/1/2008 | Constructing Australia : Bridge, The | Pacific International Documentary Film Festival | Finalist - Official Competition |
| 20/1/2008 | Change the World in 5 Minutes | Flickerfest: International Short Film Festival | Screening of Every Day at School |
| 8/1/2008 | Change the World in 5 Minutes | Flickerfest: International Short Film Festival | Finalist - Supervalue |
| 8/1/2008 | MobiDocs | Flickerfest: International Short Film Festival | Finalist - Country Song |
December 2007 | |||
| 17/12/2007 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | Sydney Morning Herald Couch Potato Awards | Readers choice - Best local telemovie or miniseries |
| 8/12/2007 | Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery | Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards | Winner - Group Award |
| 8/12/2007 | Constructing Australia | Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards | Special mention - Group Category |
| 8/12/2007 | Prime Ministers' National Treasures, The | Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards | Special mention - Group Category |
| 5/12/2007 | Air Australia | AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards | Finalist - Visual Effects Award (David Rutherford, Reigy Skwarko, Paul Siciliano, Delon Govender) |
| 5/12/2007 | Unfolding Florence - The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst | Singapore Design Festival | |
November 2007 | |||
| 29/11/2007 | Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? | Walkley Awards | Finalist - Television Current Affairs, Feature, Documentary or Special |
| 27/11/2007 | Life at 1 | APRA - AGSC Screen Music Awards | Finalist - Best Music for a Documentary (Nerida Tyson-Chew) |
| 27/11/2007 | Life at 1 | APRA - AGSC Screen Music Awards | Finalist - Best Original Song Composed for Screen ("Life at 1", Nerida Tyson-Chew) |
| 27/11/2007 | Floating Brothel, The | APRA - AGSC Screen Music Awards | Finalist - Best Music for a Documentary (Brett Aplin) |
| 27/11/2007 | Constructing Australia : Pipe Dreams | APRA - AGSC Screen Music Awards | Finalist - Best Music for a Documentary (James Lee) |
| 24/11/2007 | Fabric of a Dream, The - The Fletcher Jones Story | VIC & TAS ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Awards | Winner - Gold Award Dramatised Documentaries (Kevin Anderson ACS) |
| 23/11/2007 | Ceremony - The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land | Forumdoc.bh.2007 | Finalist - International Competition |
| 22/11/2007 | Change the World in 5 Minutes : Hot Up A Shopping Trolley | International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) | Winner 'Most Applicable Tip' - TNT Planet Me Film Contest |
| 17/11/2007 | Constructing Australia : Wire Through the Heart, A | SA & WA ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Awards | Winner - Silver Award Dramatised Documentaries (Corey Piper) |
| 17/11/2007 | Constructing Australia : Pipe Dreams | SA & WA ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Awards | Winner - Gold Award Dramatised Documentaries (Ian Batt) |
| 13/11/2007 | Ceremony - The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land | International Festival of Ethnological Films | |
| 10/11/2007 | Constructing Australia : Bridge, The | NSW & ACT State ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Awards | Winner - Silver Award Dramatised Documentaries (Peter Coleman) |
| 3/11/2007 | Growing Up and Going Home | Asia-Pacific Broadcast Union Prizes | Finalist - Youth Television Category |
October 2007 | |||
| 25/10/2007 | Growing Up and Going Home | Heart of Gold International Film Festival | |
| 19/10/2007 | Growing Up and Going Home | ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards | Finalist - Best Documentary Human Story |
| 19/10/2007 | Ceremony - The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land | ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards | Winner - Best Indigenous Resource |
| 19/10/2007 | Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? | ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards | Finalist - Best Documentary General |
| 13/10/2007 | Life at 1 | Australian Directors Guild Awards | Winner (Catherine Marciniak) - Documentary, Series/Factual Entertainment/Natural History |
| 13/10/2007 | Winners' Guide to the Nobel Prize, The | Australian Directors Guild Awards | Honorable Mention (Mark Gould) - Documentary, Stand Alone |
| 13/10/2007 | Air Australia | Australian Directors Guild Awards | Finalist - Documentary, Series/Factual Entertainment/Natural History |
| 10/10/2007 | MobiDocs | MIPCOM Mobile and Internet TV Awards | Begging for Change - Finalist in Best Short Form Entertainment, Factual |
| 10/10/2007 | MobiDocs | MIPCOM Mobile and Internet TV Awards | Marree Man - Finalist in Best Short Form Entertainment, Factual |
September 2007 | |||
| 29/9/2007 | MobiDocs | Vancouver International Film Festival | Screening of "Away" |
| 8/9/2007 | MobiDocs | Toronto International Film Festival | Screening of "I've Never Had Sex" |
| 7/9/2007 | Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? | DocNZ - International Documentary Film Festival New Zealand | |