The nominations for the 2007 Inside Film Awards were announced this morning by Lisa Hensley, Michael Adams and Pia Miranda at Sydney’s Water Bar. Leading the way is Tony Ayres’ The Home Song Stories with nine nominations including The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film, The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor (Joel Lok), The In Style IF Award for Best Actress (Joan Chen) and The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director (Tony Ayres).
The Jammed, directed by Dee McLachlan, follows with six nominations including Best Feature Film and Best Actress (Veronica Sywak). The final film to receive a nod for Best Film is Michael James Rowland’s Lucky Miles, which received five nominations in total. Other films to watch out for at the Inside Film Awards on the 16 November include Noise with five nominations, Clubland with three and Boxing Day with two nominations.
Joel Lok from The Home Song Stories is the youngest person ever to be nominated for The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor. He is joined by Brendan Cowell for his performance in Noise and Richard Green for Boxing Day. The In Style Award for Best Actress sees nominations for Brenda Blethyn (Clubland), Joan Chen (The Home Song Stories) and Veronica Sywak (The Jammed). Tony Ayres, Matt Saville and Kriv Stenders have all been nominated for The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director. Matt Saville is nominated for Noise, Tony Ayres for The Home Song Stories and Kriv Stenders for Boxing Day.
An Australian bomb disposal expert in Laos, disability and classical music are the focus of the three films nominated for the IF Award for Best Documentary. The nominated films are Bomb Harvest (directed by Kim Mordaunt), Unlikely Travellers (directed by Michael Noonan), and 4 (directed by Tim Slade). The nominees for the IF Award for Best Short Documentary are My Brother Vinnie (directed by Steven McGregor), Nigger Lovers (directed by Rhonda Hagan) and Flour, Sugar, Tea (directed by Lee Willis).
The Inside Film Awards have introduced a new award this year – the 3 IF Award for Best Music Video. Over 70 clips were eligible and the three nominees are Gotye’s Heart’s A Mess directed by Brendan Cook, Paul Kelly’s God Told Me To directed by Natasha Pincus and The Beautiful Girls’ I Thought About You directed by Kiku Ohe.
The nominees for The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film are Crocodile Dreaming (directed by Darlene Johnson), Nana (directed by Warwick Thornton) and Soul Mates (directed by Naomi Rossdeutscher). Additionally the nominees for The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Short Animation are Sweet & Sour (directed by Eddie White), The Goat That Ate Time (directed by Lucinda Schreiber), and Richard (directed by Mick Elliott).
The three films nominated for Best Feature film (Lucky Miles, The Jammed and The Home Song Stories) are all also nominated for The Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography, with Geoff Burton ACS, Peter Falk and Nigel Bluck being nominated respectively. Similarly, the situation is the same for The IF Award for Best Script with Dee McLachlan (The Jammed), Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories) and Michael James Rowland and Helen Barnes (Lucky Miles) all receiving a nomination. The nominees for the IF Award for Best Music are Grant Innes McLachlan (The Jammed), Antony Partos (The Home Song Stories) and Bryony Marks (Noise).
The awards for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Sound are decided on by film professionals with skills and expertise relating to each category. The nominees for the IF Award for Best Editing are Anne Carter and Dee McLachlan for The Jammed, Henry Dangar ASE for Lucky Miles and Geoff Hitchins for Noise. Clubland (Nell Hanson), The Home Song Stories (Melinda Doring) and Lucky Miles (Pete Baxter) have all been nominated for The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design and Andrew Neil, Liam Egan, Ian McLoughlin and Steven Jackson Vaughan (Clubland), Craig Carter, John Wilkinson, James Harvey and Andrew Neil (The Home Song Stories) and Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen and Philippe Decrausaz (Noise) are the nominees for The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound.
Clare Sawyer, General Manager of the Inside Film Awards comments: ‘The diversity of films that are nominees this year is really astounding, with strong showings from six feature films in what are the people’s choice awards for Australian Films. We are delighted to see the industry continuing to flourish and grow with projects by strong creative teams who are taking their films to Australian audiences. The Inside Film Awards looks forward to celebrating the industry and the nominees on the Gold Coast on 16th November.’
The SHOWTIME
IF Award for Best Feature Film
The Home Song Stories – directed by Tony Ayres & produced by Michael McMahon & Liz Watts
The Jammed – directed by Dee McLachlan and produced by Sally Ayre-Smith & Dee McLachlan
Lucky Miles – directed by Michael James Rowland and produced by Jo Dyer & Lesley Dyer
The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director
Tony Ayres – The Home Song Stories
Matt Saville – Noise
Kriv Stenders – Boxing Day
The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor
Brendan Cowell – Noise
Richard Green – Boxing Day
Joel Lok – The Home Song Stories
The In Style IF Award for Best Actress
Brenda Blethyn – Clubland
Joan Chen – The Home Song Stories
Veronica Sywak - The Jammed
The Kodak IF
Award for Best Cinematography
The Home Song Stories – Nigel Bluck
The Jammed – Peter Falk
Lucky Miles - Geoff Burton, ASC.
The IF Award for Best Music
The Home Song Stories – Antony Partos
The Jammed – Grant Innes McLachlan
Noise – Bryony Marks
The Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script
The Jammed – Dee McLachlan
The Home Song Stories – Tony Ayres
Lucky Miles – Helen Barnes & Michael James Rowland
The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film
Crocodile Dreaming – Directed by Darlene Johnson & produced by Sue Milliken
Nana – Directed by Warwick Thornton & produced by Kath Shelper
Soul Mates – Directed by Naomi Rossdeutscher & produced by Rachel Clements and Paul Howard
The Lab IF Award for Best Short Animation
The Goat That Ate Time – Directed & produced by Lucinda Schreiber
Richard – Directed & produced by Mick Elliott
Sweet & Sour – Directed by Eddie White & produced by Sam White and The People’s Republic of Animation
The SBS IF Award for Best Short Documentary
Flour, Sugar, Tea – Directed by Lee Willis & produced by Gina Twyble
My Brother Vinnie – Directed by Steven McGregor & produced by Sarah Bond
Nigger Lovers – Directed by Rhonda Hagan & produced by Daryl Sparkes & Stephen Hagan
The IF Award for Best Documentary
Bomb Harvest – Directed by Kim Mordaunt & produced by Sylvia Wilczynski
4 – Directed by Tim Slade & produced by Joanna Buggy
Unlikely Travellers – Directed by Michael Noonan & produced by John Hart
The 3 IF Award
for Best Music Video
God Told Me To – Directed by Natasha Pincus. Artist: Paul Kelly
Heart’s A Mess – Directed by Brendan Cook. Artist: Gotye
I Thought About You – Directed by Kiku Ohe. Artist: The Beautiful Girls
The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design
Clubland – Nell Hanson
The Home Song Stories – Melinda Doring
Lucky Miles – Pete Baxter
The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing
The Jammed – Anne Carter & Dee McLachlan
Lucky Miles – Henry Dangar, ASE
Noise – Geoff Hitchins
The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound
Clubland – Liam Egan, Ian McLoughlin, Andrew Neil & Steven Jackson Vaughan
The Home Song Stories – Craig Carter, John Wilkinson, James Harvey & Andrew Neil
Noise – Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen & Philippe Decrausaz
The Independent Spirit IF Award
Cross Life – Claire McCarthy
Searching 4 Sandeep – Poppy Stockell
Darling!: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story – Julian Shaw
The Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent
Philippa Campey
Bonnie Elliott
Ben Hackworth
Erin White
ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay
The Adventures of Abigail Storm – Luke Preston
The Farm – Peter Dai Evans
Intersection – Robin de Crespigny
The following awards will also be presented at the Inside Film Awards on 16 November:
* The Living Legend IF Award
* The Film Finance Corporation IF Award for Box Office Achievement
* The Inside Film Magazine Award for Festival of the Year
The Inside Film Awards are produced by IF Productions, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Intermedia Group, publisher of Inside Film Magazine.
The Inside Film Awards are proudly supported by:
Principal Partner: Queensland Events Corporation Major Partners: Film Finance Corporation Australia, SHOWTIME Major Government Partner: Australian Film Commission Broadcast Partners: SBS, SHOWTIME Government Partners: NSW Film and Television Office, Gold Coast City Council Event Producers:
David Grant Special Events Award Level Partners: Animal Logic, Atlab, Australian Film Commission, Cutting Edge, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Holding Redlich, Hutchison 3, Inside Film Magazine, In Style Magazine, Kodak Australia, The LaB sydney, Production Book, Queensland Events Corporation, SHOWTIME, Zig Zag Lane, ZTudio Supporting Partners: AFTRS, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birch Carroll & Coyle, Dendy Cinemas, Dinosaur Designs, FIJI Water, ghd, Hopscotch Films, Imperial, Kodak Australia, The LaB sydney, MAC Cosmetics, Moneypenny, Orana Film Transport, Palace Cinemas, Palace Films, Screen Producers Association of Australia, Trackdown Media Partners: Hutchison 3, In Style Magazine, Inside Film Magazine, Production Book Official Travel Partners: Showfilm, Avis Auditors: Moneypenny Legal Partner: Holding Redlich
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