The Australian Centre for the Moving Image announces
2014 Screen It Finalists
The top entries in Australia’s biggest moving image competition for young people
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) today announced the finalists for the annual 2014Screen It competition, Australia’s largest competition for school-aged filmmakers, animators and game makers, now in its tenth year.
This year’s competition attracted 364 entries involving 1,518 students from across Australia, creating live-action films, computer games and animations to the theme, Reflection.
ACMI Screen Education Manager, Christine Evely said: “We congratulate all the young people who entered Screen It this year. Entries were outstanding and we wish our finalists the best of luck in the lead up to the announcement of the 2014 winners.”
Screen It is judged by a panel of industry professionals including Trollbridge director Daniel Knight, lecturer and director Andrew O’Keefe, animator Rebecca Hayes, Melbourne International Animation Film Festival director Malcolm Turner, and industry representatives from the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Victorian College of the Arts and Federation Square.
Screen It Ambassadors, Bajo and Hex, hosts of ABC2’s Good Game and Good Game Spawn Point, judged the awards for the best Primary and Secondary-student created video game in the country. Jason Schleifer from DreamWorks Animation will also join the finalist judging panel this year for the Animation categories.
Winners will be acknowledged at a glittering red carpet awards ceremony in December, each receiving a certificate, a trophy and a DVD prize pack courtesy of Madman Entertainment. Primary and Secondary Live Action and Animation category winners will also receive Crumpler products, whilst the Primary and Secondary Video Game category winner will receive a PS4 and a selection of games courtesy of Sony PlayStation. Along with great prizes for each category, the primary and secondary school with the Best Overall Entries will be recognised with a state-of-the-art NECprojector.
In addition, winning entries will be added to the Australian Mediatheque where ACMI visitors can view moving image works on demand. They will also be exhibited in ACMI’s Screen Worlds exhibition alongside some of the greatest filmmakers and game developers of all time, on ACMI’sGenerator education portal and on the ACMI website.
Unlike other student film competitions, Screen It is designed to provide rich cross-disciplinary curriculum outcomes for participants. As teachers start thinking of next year’s competition, they are encouraged to use the Resources devised by ACMI's experienced educators to assist with developing the theme, assist students to gain knowledge and skills around production processes, to register their class for online Screen It Video Conferences with ACMI Education staff, and to utilise Generator, ACMI's online creative tool to support the production process.
The winners will be announced on the ACMI website on Monday 24 November. The annual Screen It Awards will be held at ACMI in Melbourne on Friday 5 December 2014.
For more information on Screen It, please visit acmi.net.au/screenit.
Screen It 2014 is proudly supported by 6A Foundation, Scootle, NEC, Crumpler, Madman Entertainment, Sony PlayStation, SYN and Avant Card.
The 2014 Screen It competition finalists are:
Primary Animation
Maristely’s Story, Holy Family Primary School (Indooroopilly, QLD)
Waterfall Reflections, St Therese Catholic Primary School (Mascot, NSW)
Ignatius Quince – The Cautionary Tale of a Child Genius, Table Cape Primary School (Wynyard, TAS)
The Reflection Project Ironside State School (St Lucia, QLD)
Reflections Cabramatta Public School (Cabramatta, NSW)
Pepperoni’s Pizza, Yarraville West Primary School (Yarraville West, VIC)
Primary Live Action
The Devoted Friend Doreen Primary School (Doreen, VIC)
Bullying No Way Man Swifts Creek P-12 School (Swifts Creek, VIC)
Don’t Change Me St Brigid’s Primary School (Gisborne, VIC)
The Tea Party Sanctuary Point Public School (Sanctuary Point, NSW)
H.E.Z. – Time Flies By Sanctuary Point Public School (Sanctuary Point, NSW)
Mirror, Mirror Charles LaTrobe College (Heidelberg West, VIC)
Primary Game
Time Machine Tea Tree Gully Primary School (Tea Tree Gully, SA)
The Adventures of LOL Man Tea Tree Gully Primary School (Tea Tree Gully, SA)
Copy Dog Jordan Stirzaker (Aspendale Gardens, VIC)
Bridges and Goblins 2 Jake Gelastopoulos (Taylors Lakes, VIC)
Sky’s Adventure Hurstbridge Primary School (Hurstbridge, VIC)
Secondary Animation
100 Pages North Sydney Girls High School (Crows Nest, NSW)
La Mia Vita Sarah Brennan (Adelaide Lead, VIC)
Recollection of Affection Jacqueline Fegal (Doncaster, VIC)
Mirrored Doncaster East Secondary College (Doncaster East, VIC)
Kid Logic Celia Dent (Beaumaris, VIC)
Emanate The King David School (Armadale, VIC)
Secondary Live Action
14 Billion Faces Lily Drummond (Marino, SA)
(K)NEW Kingswood College (Box Hill, VIC)
Parallel Universes Santa Maria College (Attadale, WA)
Boddah St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School (Karrinyup, WA)
Transcending St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School (Karrinyup, WA)
Transition Presbyterian Ladies College (Peppermint Grove, WA)
Secondary Game
Project Vena Cava Matthew Wong (Forde, ACT)
Procedure Ewan Breakey (Highton, VIC)
Façade Nunawading Christian College (Pakenham, VIC)
Orbit Harrison Turton (Beaudesert, QLD)
Reflection: The Third Stage of Grief Nathan Templar (Torquay, VIC)
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