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Young Guns | The Sharpies | Animation

Young Guns

Best Overall Film  $500 RED ROOSTER
Award Presented by Tim Kethell - RED ROOSTER
COHERENCE    Coffs Coast
Producer - Nick Wagland and Billy White  -Coffs Harbour
Anonymous man, anonymous location, something is not right. Thriller: An anonymous man is on his way down a corridor, striding, looking pretty intense, only to realize where he is going is not the place what it seems.

Runner Up
COLD FRIEND - Coffs Coast
Producer Leon Wiseman
Director Dylan Berger
Bellingen High School -  Urunga
Two boys escape from the law but one does not make it.  Has his friend betrayed him? His friend is haunted by his actions.

People’s Choice Award
COHERENCE  - Coffs Coast
Producer - Nick Wagland and Billy White  -Coffs Harbour
Anonymous man, anonymous location, something is not right.
Thriller: An anonymous man is on his way down a corridor, striding, looking pretty intense, only to realize where he is going is not the place what it seems.

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The Sharpies

Best Overall Film  $2000 JANISON AWARD
Award Presented by Sue Vander Kolk from Janison
EARLY CHECKOUT               
Producer - Jim Lounsbury
Ballina NSW
Drama: Love goes horribly wrong in a hotel room. (with Academy Award nominee Jacquie Weaver in a guest role!)

Runner Up Film  $500
SQUEEZE                                   
Director/Writer - Will Goodfellow, grew up in Coffs Harbour
Producer Lucy Gaffy
Glebe NSW
Comedy: Trevor’s prison breakout attempt through a putrid, claustrophobic sewage pipe goesdown the gurgler when his escape is blocked by his ex-cellmate Gary - the most annoying man in creation- trying to sneak back in.

Best Mid North Coast Film
Award Presented by James Parker -  Jetty Research
DANDELION Mid North Coast
Producer/Director - Steven Cutmore
Port Macquarie NSW
Mockumentary - One man's journey back from addiction.

Best Coffs Coast Film
Award Presented by Mike Close -  ETC
KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY  - Coffs Coast
Producer – Director - David Foulkes
Sawtell, NSW
Comedy: It's been a long time since Daniel visited his kooky Mum & Dad on the farm. It might well be the last.

People’s Choice Award
APPY EVER AFTER              
Producer - Rupert Le Poer Trench
Surrey Hills, NSW
Drama The table is set for a romantic dinner. Kate has prepared something special but unfortunately Steve is stuck at the office.
In today's ever changing world of phone technology can Kate and Steve keep the romance alive? Steve thinks he's found the perfect 'app' to keep them living in marital bliss....

Best Sound  0r Score
Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium
Award Presented by Lesley Shoer – President CHR Con
CLASS WARS                            
Producer - Afrim Memed
Footscray, Victoria
Drama: PETER sits uninterested as he is stuck in detention class after school. He is frequently fidgeting with his pencil and aimlessly looking around the room for some sort of entertainment. He locks eyes with JOHNNY, another student sitting nearby. JOHNNY turns around and reaches into his pocket only to pull it out again and give PETER the finger. PETER reacts angrily to the gesture as JOHNNY turns around laughing. This means war! PETER looks down at his pencil and makes an action as if he is loading a gun. Lock and Load. Things are going to get messy!

Animation

Best Animation  $1000
Dream Giver    
Award presented by Coffs Harbour City Council                     
Producer - Tyler Carter
Utah  USA
A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literal nightmare when an orphan's book of Ancient Aztec Mythology comes alive. The Dreamgiver must save the orphan from his own nightmare!

Runners Up Film  $200
Spirit of the Bluebird                
Producer - Xstine Cook
Calgary Canada
Documentary Anim:  Using spray paint on a garage where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered in 1999, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large scale animation of a bluebird in flight. The beauty and freedom of the bluebird's motion is contrasted with remembrances of Gloria's surviving family members, who give an emotional glimpse of
a woman lost to violence and the injustice of the legal system.

'Spirit of the Bluebird' is a fitting tribute to a woman who embodied the bluebird spirit, and speaks to deeper themes of the ongoing mistreatment of Canada's Aboriginal peoples by the criminal justice system, and the long term negative effects of the Residential School system.

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