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NEWCASTLE NATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL 2007 AWARDS PRESENTATION LIST

Documentary
3 A Small Question Stuart Hobson
2 Firestorm Aftermath October 2002 Gary Peterson
1 Wagtails John Sirett

Drama – Fiction

3 Out of Memory Benchmark NVM
2 Deadly Serious Novaflix NVM
1 No Virginia Geoff Peel

Experimental/Animation

3 Happy Chocolate Day Brian Lemin NVM
2 Media Mind Blake Phillips NVM
1 My World Mike O’Neill NVM

Travelogue

1 Brigadoon John Sirett

Music/Visual Arts

1 Holes Inside Blake Phillips NVM

International

1 Twins in the Sign of the Moon Filmgroup Nightwatch

Schools

3 Put Your Hands Up! Kincumber Public School
2 The School is Evil Edgeworth Heights Public
1 P and S Solicitors Belmont High

Best Sound
No Virginia Geoff Peel

Camera Craft
Firestorm Aftermath October 2002 Gary Peterson

Best Editing
No Virginia Geoff Peel

Nova Award
No Virginia Geoff Peel

Ernie Potts Memorial Trophy

 Brian Lemin

Best of the Festival

 
No Virginia Geoff Peel

Audience Choice Award

  
Holes Inside Blake Phillips.

NVM Group Production Award
   

Mansel Williams
Gary Bath
Kathy Prior
Norman Bilton
Graeme McKee
John Robertson
Ralf Jorg
     

NEWCASTLE VIDEO MOVIEMAKERS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

Last Nights (Wednesday 17th) Annual film awards were shown at the Lakes Cinema Boolaroo to a full house. The audience was particularly enthralled by the entries from schools from the Central Coast, Newcastle and the Hunter. The winner’s film was made by Blake Phillips from Belmont High with an excellent parody on a solicitor’s office in the film “P&S Solicitors.

Edgeworth Heights PS were second with what could only be classified as a horror film (!) entitled “The School is Evil” It was a very imaginative script and well acted by the pupils. Finally a film that tackled extremely well, the important social evil of bullying in schools, “Put you Hands up”. The most amazing thing about this film was that it was shot on a still camera that had the ability of taking about 1 minute of video at a time. It shows that you do not need expensive equipment to make a good movie.

Geoff Peel won the highest award of the evening with his very humorous film “No Virginia, a story of the demise of Santa Clause. Blake Phillips, an extremely talented local schoolboy, entered an animation in the music video section which not only won a Festival award, but as the result of the publicity of this film he is negotiating animation contracts with “certain” European music labels. Well done Blake.

John Sirette, documentary maker extrodinaire, blew us away with his production, Wagtails. He demonstarted his mastery of every aspect of film making in this story of two wagtails, mating, nest building and bringing up their young.

Other award winners from the club were, Mike O’Neil (animation) Brian Lemin (Moviemaker of the Year) and the clubs’ Novaflicks group (Group production award)

A record number of 36 films were entered this year with three of them from overseas.