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Emerging Filmmaker Award
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The North Bellarine Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Award is a jury-selected award presented to a filmmaker who resides or has resided in the State of Victoria (Australia) and is no older than 25 years of age at the time that they make their submission.
Submission period for the 2021 Award opens in April
2020 Emerging Filmmaker Award
The winner of the 2020 Emerging Filmmaker Award is Grace Griffith for her period drama, Fallen, set in Mont St Quentin, France during World War One.
When a Captain tumbles into a trench with a serious bullet wound, a Private tends to the wound and distracts the Captain with conversation. As the two men reveal intimate details of their life back home in Australia, they make a chance revelation that will change the course of their war.
Fallen was also awarded the Gold Remi at the WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival and Best Student Film at the Montreal Independent Film Festival.
Grace is from Wandiligong in north-east Victoria and currently based in Traralgon. She is a graduate of the Swinburne University Film and Television program.
The winner of the 2019 Emerging Filmmaker Award was Tadji Ulrich for his beautiful film When We Were One.
When this world is forever torn apart, Will must find a way to hold on to Aimee and for them to once more be as one.
Tadji is a young filmmaker based in Melbourne. His first film, I Believe, was shortlisted for Trop Jr and, as part of the 2016 Little Big Shots International Film Festival, was shown at ACMI and the Sydney Opera House. In 2018, his mockumentary Outcasts Anonymous won Trop Jr, the world's largest short film festival for kids.
Tadji and co-star Ana Swadling
Tadji accepting the 2019 Victorian Emerging Filmmaker Award
The North Bellarine Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Award is a jury-selected award that was started in 2019 to recognise a young filmmaker who demonstrates exceptional talent and commitment to their craft.
The award is open to filmmakers who resides or have resided in the State of Victoria (Australia) and are no older than 25 years of age at the time that they make their submission.
The submission period for the 2021 award will open on about 1 April 2021.
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