The ADG yesterday announced the nominees for the Inaugural Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Awards to be held on the night of Saturday 13 October, during the 2007 ADG Atlab Conference. 42 Directors were nominated in all, covering thirteen categories across a range of genres including feature film, television, documentary, music video, short film and television commercials.
A full list of nominees can be seen below.
The inaugural Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Awards which honour outstanding achievement and contributions in film and television will be announced on the Saturday night of the 2007 ADG Atlab Conference – Saturday 13 October – at the Awards Dinner being held at Sydney’s Swissotel.
The Dinner is to be hosted by Julia Zemiro of SBS’s RocKwiz and co-host of ‘The Jonathan Coleman Experience,’ on radio across Australia.
The Awards came about as the ADG recognised there were no Australian awards for Directors that were voted solely by Directors. Only productions screened for the first time between July 1 2006 and June 30 2007 have been eligible for entry.
To attend the Awards and the Conference go to http://www.adg.org.au/ to download the registration form and
Fax your registrations to 02 95557086, Email mailto:admin@adg.org.au or Call 02 9555 7045.
2007 ADG Director Awards Nominees
Feature Films
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction:
Director: Darren Ashton for Razzle Dazzle
Director: Cherie Nowlan for Clubland
Director: Matthew Saville for Noise
Director: Kriv Stenders for Boxing Day
* Finders screening award:
Director: Tony Ayres for The Home Song Stories
Director: Michael James Rowland for Lucky Miles
Director: Kriv Stenders for Boxing Day
Director: Dee McLachlan for The Jammed
TV
* Television Telemovie
Director: Jessica Hobbs for Curtin
Director: Ray Quint for Bastard Boys
Director: Matthew Saville for The King
* Comedy
Director: Tony Rogers for Wilfred Ep 6
Director: Will Usic for Stupid Stupid Man ’A very very private function’
* Series (Periodical)
Director: Ian Watson for Tripping Over Ep 6
Director: Graeme Burfoot for Two Twisted ’Call Back’
Director: Kate Dennis for Love My Way ’Cars Without Brakes’
Director: Peter Andrikidis for Blackjack ’Ace Point Game’
* Series (On Going)
Director: Tony Krawitz for All Saints Ep 393 ‘Precious Moments’
Director: Richard Jasek for McLeod’s Daughters Ep 177
Director: Peter Fisk for All Saints Ep 380 ‘The Hearts of Men’
* Television Commercial: Visual Narrative
Director: Sean Meehan for Saboteur, MS Society
Director: Richard Gibson for Liquid Freedom, Vodaphone
Director: Damien Toogood for Go Places, CPA
Director: Julius Avery for Connex for Cancer, Connex
* Television Commercial: Performance
Director: Sean Meehan For Children See, Children Do, National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN)
Director: Julius Avery for Double Bus, TAC
Director: Sean Byrne for Barry Hall, Ford
Documentary
* Series/Factual Entertainment/Natural History
Director: Russell Vines for Eco House Challenge Ep.1
Director: Catherine Marciniak for Life at One
Director: Alan Lindsay for Air Australia Ep. 1
Director: John Staimton for Ocean’s Deadliest
* Stand Alone
Director: Mark Gould for The Winner’s Guide to the Nobel Peace Prize
Director: Kim Mordaunt for Bomb Harvest
Director: Chris Tuckfield for In Our Name
Director: David Bradbury for Raul the Terrible
Director: Tom Zubrycki for Temple of Dreams
Music Video
* Music Video Nominees
Director: David Barker for Butterfingers, Get up out of the Dirt
Director: Morgan Christie for Living End, Nothing Else Lasts Forever
Co-Directors: Paul Goldman and Alice Bell for Silverchair, Straight Lines
Short Film
* Short
Director: Anthony Maras for Spike up
Director: Nash Edgerton for Spider
Director: Tori Garrett for The Barrows
Director: Erin White for Dugong
* Student Short
Director: Rebecca Parker for This Girl in the Desert
Director: Dean Francis for Vermin
Director: Julius Avery for End of Town
* Career Achievement Award for First Assistant Direction
To be announced on the night
[release from the ADG]