11th SFS FESTIVAL Award Winners

DOCUMENTARY AWARDS

> BEST DIRECTION (Part 1)
Ilja Gray for 'Facebook' & Seth Darby for 'Always the Godfather'

> BEST DIRECTION (Part 2)
Ben Wilson for 'Hughmungos'

> BEST EDITING (Part 1)
Marinho Gomes for 'Ordinary Man'

> BEST EDITING (Part 2)
Anson Charody-Bognar for ‘Hughmungos’

> BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alice Chung for 'Basurero' (Part 1)

> BEST SOUND DESIGN
Alexis Scipione for ‘Always the Godfather’ (Part 1)

DRAMA AWARDS

> BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Part 1)
Oliver Farkas for ‘Permanence'

> BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Part 2)
Zach Peel-McGregor for ‘L'Aqua’ (Part 2)

> 16MM FILM EDITING
Anthea Hewett for ‘Permanence’ (Part 1)

> BEST DIGITAL EDITING
Phillippe Roch for ‘Fade Away' & 'Twice Shy' (Part 2)

> BEST DIRECTOR
Nick Radford for ‘Now You See Me' (Thesis)

> BEST PRODUCER (Part 1)
Ainslee Wood & Christian Lans for 'Count to Ten'

> BEST PRODUCER (Part 2)
Richard Van Der Male for ‘Day Out'

> BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 
Rhys Farmer for 'Blue Rose' & Agnieszka Baginska for 'Reflections'

> BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY
'Mental Disorders and You' by Damien Brown & 'Sweat' by Sam Grant

> BEST THESIS FILM AWARD 
'Mi Hermana' by Winnie Diaz Sempio

> BEST SOUND DESIGN
Andreas Haglund for '10 Hours Later'

> BEST COMPOSER
Brian Huynh for 'A Homemade Love Story' by Abu Shahed Emon

> BEST UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY in Part 1 (Dean Schneider Award)
Alice Chang   

> BEST ESSAY (The Richard Franklin Award)
Richard Armstrong

> BEST ACTOR (Otto–Newton Award)
Dr. John Buckmaster for 'Count to Ten'

> MOST PROVOCATIVE FILM (Sydney Underground Film Festival award)
'Mermaid' by Oscar Molinari

> SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Matt Chow, Oscar Molinari, Chino Saavedra, Zach Peel-McGregor, Rhys Farmer & Shuo Fang

> CHAIRMAN'S AWARD
Mark Tipple

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 1)
'Always the Godfather'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 2)
'A Serious Debate'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 3)
'Man on the Moon'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 4)
'Hughmungos'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 5)
'Profits'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 6)
'Reflection'

> AUDIENCE AWARD (Screening 7)
'Basurero'