50th MIFF Shorts Awards
MIFF features one of the most highly regarded short film competitions in the Southern Hemisphere. This year the eligible short films were competing for a total cash prize pool of $42,000.
The MIFF 50th Shorts Awards winners were as follows:
City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film ($10,000) – A Fine Young Man
Film Victoria Erwin Radio Award for Best Australian Short Film ($7000) – The Palace
Transmission Films Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker ($5000) – At the Formal
Cinema Nova Award for Best Fiction Short Film ($5000) – Green Crayons
Holmesglen Award for Best Animation Short Film ($5000) – Nullarbor
Swinburne Award for Best Documentary Short Film ($5000) – Leonids Story
Melbourne International Film Festival Award for
Best Experimental Short Film ($5000) – A History of Mutual Respect
|
Proudly supported by |
   |
   |
The MIFF Shorts Awards is a BAFTA and Academy® accredited competition. The winners of the Best MIFF short, best fiction, best animation categories will be eligible to submit their film for the 2011 Academy Awards®.
View MIFF 49th Shorts Awards Winners (2010)
MIFF 50th Shorts Awards Jury Members
 Tait Brady Tait Brady is a consultant to independent producers, distributors and film agencies on matters ranging from creative assessment and script development to marketing, publicity and festival strategies. He also lectures on industry matters at AFTRS and elsewhere, and has a number of projects in development across a range of formats (doco, TV series, features). He is currently in post on his first feature, The 25th Reich. From 2004 to 2008 he was one of two Feature Film Evaluation Managers at the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC); from 1996-2004 he was General Manager of the leading independent distribution company Palace Films. Prior to joining Palace in 1996, Tait was Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival for 9 years (1988-96). |
 Robert Connolly Robert Connolly is the writer and director of the feature films The Bank (2001), Three Dollars (2005), and most recently, Balibo (2009). Through his production company Arenafilm he is also the producer (together with John Maynard) of the award-winning films The Boys (1998) and Romulus, My Father (2007). He has won three AFI awards for screenwriting for The Bank, Three Dollars and Balibo. In 2007 Romulus, My Father won the AFI Award for Best Film. As a director, he has screened his films in over thirty major international film festivals, won numerous prizes and had considerable commercial success in Australia and internationally. Robert’s most recent film Balibo premiered as the Opening Night film at the Melbourne International Film Festival, with its North American premiere in official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. It won Best Film at this year’s Sao Paulo International Film Festival Robert received a Centenary Medal for services to the Australian Film Industry in 2001, and is currently on the Board of Screen Australia. |
 Julie Ebbinghaus Julie Ebbinghaus is the Head of Australia and Head of Marketing for global cinema platform MUBI. Before entering the film industry, she spent a number of years in banking and lived as an expatriate in Singapore and Hong Kong. She holds a Business Degree with a Major in Marketing, and currently spends her time between Sydney and London and frequenting various film festivals. |