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ScreenWest congratulates WA Screen Award winners
10 March 2010
It was a night of celebration and cheer as the WA screen industry came together to recognise the local talent after another bumper year of local screen production.Sue Taylor was honored with the Lotterywest Award for Outstanding Achievement for a Practitioner. Sue has produced or line produced close to $30million of film and television drama in Western Australia during her career. A number of her productions have achieved significant recognition including 3 Acts of Murder, Courting with Justice, and Last Train to Freo.
To add to this list, her acclaimed ABC telemovie 3 Acts of Murder also took home the Lotterywest Award for Outstanding Achievement for a Production.
This year there were two recipients of the Lotterywest Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry - John Rapsey and Carmelo Musca.
John has been, and continues to be, a prolific contributor to television drama. Series creator, writer and script editor, John's credits include: Haydaze, Ship to Shore I-III, Sweat, Fast Tracks and Foreign Exchange, RAWFM as well as an anthology of 20 short films for the Arena Channel called In Bed with Desire. John heads the Scriptwriting program at Edith Cowan University and is Chair of the WA branch of the Australian Writers' Guild.
Carmelo has been producing film and television projects for over 30 years. Much of Carmelo's work concerns his passion for social issues. He co-wrote and directed the 13 part series The Rich Tradition, an exploration of peasant culture, music and food. The success of the series led to him being invited to the inaugural jury of the Slow Food Movement, which then led to him producing Slow Food Revolution for Film Australia. Recently Carmelo produced the critically acclaimed documentary My Asian Heart, on photographer Philip Blenkinsop, supported by ScreenWest. Currently Carmelo is working on his latest project Collision Course, an art installation piece in conjunction with Australian Dance Theatre.
The future certainly looks bright for the screen industry, with WA's emerging filmmakers pulling out all the stops with an impressive display, providing a glimpse of the promising talent and skills of the next generation of screen practitioners.
The first award of the evening went to Regan Bennet who received the ScreenWest Bill Warnock Award for his script Yilgarn Street. This award provides assistance to develop a promising, low-budget feature script, written by a less established writer and comes with a total support package valued at $6,000.
In the emerging categories:
- Michael Hoath took out the FTI - Young Filmmaker of the Year Award, which is presented to someone aged 25 years or under who has shown great promise in their film career.
- Vincenzo Perrella and Dan Osborn had a couple of turns at the podium taking both the Hog's Breath Café - Best Film Award as well as the Curtin University - People's Choice Award with their gleefully sardonic short film This is Perth.
Click here for the full list of winners.
