19th WA SCREEN AWARDS

Saturday 11 March 2006
Winthrop Hall, UWA

The 19th WA Screen Awards were presented on Saturday 11 March at Winthrop Hall to an large audience of screen industry pracitioners and VIP’s. The Film & Television Institute would like to thank all the entrants in this year’s awards and congratulate the winners in 28 award categories.

The 19th WA Screen Award winners are

Industry Sector Award Winners

Outstanding Contribution to the West Australian Screen Industry

Paul Barron

Six Outstanding Achievement Awards for Excellence

Outstanding Achievement Award
Raging Pixel
Launch Pad
(Creative Use of New Media)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Electric Pictures
Submariners
(Series Production)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Meredith Watson Jeffrey
Superflu – Race Against a Killer
(Editing)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Tim Count, Keith Van Geyzel, Glenn Martin & Ric Curtin
Submariners
(Music & Sound Design)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Raging Pixel
Launch Pad
(Innovation in Form/Content)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Mago Films
Surfing The Menu – Series 3
(Achievement in the Market Place)

People’s Choice Industry Award

Electric Pictures
Submariners

Early Career Sector Award Winners

ABC Young Filmmaker of the Year

Zak Hilditch

Genre Awards

Best Animation Production
Ransis and Alee
Randall Lynton

Best Documentary Production
A Dollar for the Good Ones
Joshua Lee

Best Drama Production
Frankie’s Story
Annie Parnell

Best Community Television Production
Grinding to a Halt
Burleigh Smith

Best Music Video
Pa Don’t Understand Me
Nic Montagu

Best Non-Traditional Narrative
De Ja Vu
Peta Walter

Best Secondary Student Production
Snap
Keir Wilkins

Best Tertiary Student Production
Story of Hong
Warren Tan

Craft Awards

Animation/Visual Effects
Chris Frey
Phaid

Acting / Performance
Viva Skubiszewski
Drama School

Cinematography
Mark Parish
Phaid

Directing (Drama)
Zak Hilditch
At Play

Directing (Non-Drama)
Ethan Marrell
The Willetton UFO Conspiracy Theory

Editing
Luke Jago
Nightfill

Original Music Composition
Cliff Lynton
Ransis and Alee

Production Design
Anthea Power
Inhalexhale

Screenplay / Writing
Damien Spiccia
A Trick of the Moonlight

Sound
Murray Christian
The Bond

People’s Choice Early Career Award

Anya Watroba and Nathan Keene
At Play