FILEF SHORT FILM FESTIVAL “LA TERRA – THE LAND”
Saturday 31 October 2015 Italian Forum Cultural Centre
AWARDS
BEST FILM ($1000 from FILEF):
Directors: Lucio Arisci, Federico Betta
Producers: Videoidee Cultural Association, Bruxelles
Think Small, Think Different. Too busy in our daily life, we forget the little things that can make the world different and better.
SECOND PRIZE ($500 from FILEF)
To APDP (Action for Peace and Development in the Philippines) for two films:
Defend Talaingod: The Lumads Quest for Justice. The Indigenous people of Talaingod in Mindanao, pushed out their ancestral lands in the mountains.
Face to Face: Woman Chieftain Slams Politician. A proud Indigenous elder of a community forced by military operations to evacuate their land, confronts with anger a politician form Manila.
Producers: BC Kilab Multimedia project on people’s struggles in Mindanao.
BEST DIRECTION:
Diploma of Screen and Media Course offered by the Sydney Film School.
Directors: Silvia Pianelli, Matteo Maffesanti and Michel Grigoletti
88 Days (on Australian farms). A journey through dreams, hopes and thoughts of young Italians in Australia on a working holiday visa.
Producers: Fondazione Migrantes
YOUNGEST DIRECTOR:
Digital Filmmaking short summer course, offered by the Sydney Film School.
Director: Tim Eddy
The Land of the Long White Cloud. An week of full immersion hiking in New Zealand, from glowing blue glaciers, through dense ancient forests and crystal clear rivers.
BEST INTERPRETATION
Camera 101, a course on acting in front of a camera, offered by the Actors Centre of Australia.
Actor: Divashini Ramesh
Director: Eelan Elanko
Adopted Land A Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka comes to Australia by boat. She is in a state of shock caused by trauma, losing her mental health after two years of confinement. Losing homeland is losing everything.