Audience Choice Awards - Narrative Shorts

First Prize - Catfish Films Audience Choice Award

Catfish Films voucher valued at $5,000

Australian Directors Guild Associate Membership

A bag from Crumpler

WINNER: Numurkah (entered by Ryan Coonan & James Hicks)
Writer: Ryan Coonan; Director: Ryan Coonan; Producer: James Hicks
Genre: Horror
While attempting to destroy their car to cash in on the insurance money, Jim and Steve find themselves in a lot more trouble they bargained for.

Second Prize - Video Australasia Audience Choice Award

Video Australasia equipment hire voucher valued at $1,500

Australian Directors Guild Associate Membership

WINNER: Slapping Christie
Writers: Holly Alexander & Mitchell Forrester; Director: Mitchell Forrester; Producers: Holly Alexander, Mitchell Forrester & Chris Lassig
Genre: Comedy
What would you do if your ex-lover started sleeping with your housemate?

Third Prize - Open Channel Audience Choice Award

Open Channel equipment hire voucher valued at $500

WINNER: Swimming to the Boy
Writer: Tim Dean; Director: Tim Dean; Producer: Carolyn Thomas
Genre: Drama
The story of a family's journey, and how this year, their annual catalyst for their world suddenly turning upside down.

Fourth Prize - Inside Film and Production Book Audience Choice Award

2009 Production Book plus online access, and 12-month IF magazine subscription

WINNER: Your Turn
Writer: Gillian Bartlett; Director: Sarah Grimmer; Producer: Donna Lyon
Genre: Comedy
Esther and Joan have been playing chequers over the Internet for hours – or has it been years

Fifth Prize - Encore Audience Choice Award

2009 Encore Directory and 12-month magazine subscription

WINNER: The Ballad of Betty and Joe
Writers: Rivka Hartman & Martha Ansara; Director: Martha Ansara; Producers: Martha Ansara, Charlie
Carman, Adam Rigby & Rivka Hartman.
Genre: Musical Fantasy
Alone in the big city, Betty busks for a living. But her earnings are meager and to make things worse, Joe,
the new security guard, is trying to confiscate her fiddle. While Betty dreams of fame and fortune, Joe
dreams of earplugs – something’s got to give!

Industry Award

Music and Effects Encouragement Award for Best Sound Design

Music and Effects voucher valued at $750

WINNER: Thimbles
Writer/Director/Producer: Justin Olstein
Genre: Drama / Art house
When a violent and verbally familiar threat presents itself in the adjacent hallway, a middle-aged seamstress
seeks to protect herself with the only armour at hand… her thimbles.

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Audience Choice Awards - Documentary Shorts

Best Documentary Award - AIDC Audience Choice Award

3-day pass to the Australian International Documentary Conference

Open Channel equipment hire voucher valued at $1,000

Australian Directors Guild Associate Membership

A bag from Crumpler

WINNER: The Year I Got Younger
Writer: Genevieve Bailey; Director: Genevieve Bailey; Producer: Genevieve Bailey and Henrik Nordstram
A hangover tastes the same in every city. Shot in Galway, Prague and Melbourne this Irish fiddle player reflects in his old and new found addictions.

Runner Up Documentary Award - ADG Audience Choice Award

Australian Directors Guild Associate Membership

Open Channel equipment hire voucher valued at $750

WINNER: Bouncer
Writer: Tom Vogel, Director: Tom Vogel, Producer: Tom Vogel
A documentary on the world of crowd control. Seven bouncers are interviewed and give an insight into a dangerous profession.

Open Channel Special Mention Awards

Each winner receives an Open Channel short courses/ equipment hire voucher valued at $250

WINNERS:

The Ungrateful Australian
Writer: Tom Meadmore, Director: Tom Meadmore, Producer: Tom Meadmore
During a free trip to France to meet his father’s new fiancée, an ungrateful Australian gains perspective on his place within the universe while visiting a wonder of the world.

1973
Writer: Karen Flores-Alfaro, Director: Karen Flores-Alfaro, Producer: Anna Bandini
A political documentary, that takes place in Chile 1973. Where a mother struggles to survive amongst the civil turmoil and must face the most difficult of odds to give her children a future.

Monarch
Writer: Shane Willis; Director: Shane Willis; Producer: Nick Cole
During the Cold War the C.I.A. operated a program know as MONARCH. The project involved traumatisation, sensory deprivation, ritual abuse and forced drug use to control the minds of its victims.

Door Prizes kindly donated by Cinema Nova and Crumpler