The 20th WA Screen Awards were held at His Majesty’s Theatre on 23 March. Special guests were Peter Templeman and Paul Goldman. MC’s were Damon Lockwood and Sam Longley.

INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO INDUSTRY AWARD (2 winners)

Joan Peters
Daryl Binning

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT INDUSTRY AWARDS (6 winners)

Outstanding Achievement for Drama Direction
Sleepover Club
Southern Star Entertainment, commissioned by the Nine Network and Nickelodeon UK
James Bogle, Mark DeFriest, Steve Peddie, and Andrew Lewis

Outstanding Achievement for Editing
Sleepover Club
Southern Star Entertainment, commissioned by the Nine Network and Nickelodeon UK
Meredith Watson Jeffrey and Lawrence Silvestrin

Outstanding Achievement for Documentary Production
Bom Bali
Electric Pictures, screened on Channel 10 Network

Outstanding Achievement for Visual FX
Sleepover Club
Southern Star Entertainment, commissioned by the Nine Network and Nickelodeon UK
Richard Turner

Outstanding Achievement for Documentary Direction
Saving Andrew Mallard
Artemis International, screened on ABC TV
Michael Muntz

Outstanding Achievement for Documentary Production
The Winner’s Guide to the Nobel Prize
Electric Pictures, screened on ABC TV

BILL WARNOCK AWARD
Steven McCall for screenplay Enemy on the Wall

OPEN CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS

Best Community Television Production
The Beach Taken By Land
Tibor Meszaros

Best Experimental Production
The Diabolical Dr Pancoast
Michelle Glaser

Best Music Video Production
Snowman ‘Smoke and Mirrors’
Steve McCallum

Award for Innovation in Cross Platform Media
(No award presented)

EARLY CAREER AWARD WINNERS

ABC YOUNG FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Alison James

GENRE AWARDS

Best Drama Production
My Shout
Jeff Asselin and Julian Argus

Best Documentary Production
Meet the Eye
Vicinity Film Project

Best Animation Production
Professor Pebbles
Papercut Media / Davison Bros

Best Tertiary Student Production
Gusto
Jonathon Miller

Best Secondary Student Production
A Cambodian Story
Cameron Frost and Syan Vallance

CRAFT AWARDS

Award for Directing (Drama)
Some Dreams Come True
Christopher Kenworthy

Award for Directing (Non-Drama)
Salt of the Earth
Hansa Natola & Ross McCullum

Award for Animation
Professor Pebbles
Pierce Davison

Award for Cinematography
Still Life
Patrick Herford

Award for Editing
Gusto
Alice Bergfall

Award for Acting
The Department of Nothing
Nicholas Stevenson

Award for Screen Writing
Brood
Mark Hudson

Award for Production Design
My Shout
Emma Fletcher

Award for Visual Effects
Ableman’s Final Account
Christopher Trappe

Award for Sound
Ableman’s Final Account
Kingsley Reeve

Award for Original Music Composition
Ableman’s Final Account
Malcolm Clark, Lee Jones and Luke Steele

IF PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
McGee Noble for Department of Nothing