2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Award Winners

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An extraordinary line up of a talent was showcased on the big screen at this year’s ATOM Awards MELBOURNE – Friday 24th October , 2008. The complete list of finalists, winners and clips of their previews, is below.

The reputable ATOM Awards program has been running for 26 years and celebrates the very best of Australian and New Zealand production. It now recognises excellence in over thirty categories of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia (including video games). The competition was open to anyone who had produced a short film, documentary, animation, electronic game, educational resource, television program or innovative new media work in the past twelve months.

EnhanceTV has these winners in the store: Lockie Leonard episodes, The Oasis (& study guide), Animalia episodes, Maverick Mother (& study guide), Seed Hunter (& study guide).

and this year's winners are...

GENERAL

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Best Animation (5 finalists)

WINNER: Father (View Clip)
NSW - Sebastian Danta, Second Sight Productions

Mutt
VIC - Glen Hunwick and Beth Frey, Circe Films and Glen Art Productions

Ephemeral
NSW - Tony Radevski and Jongsu Oh, Runtime Pictures

Chainsaw
VIC - Dennis Jungle Pictures

Culture Shock
ACT - Mei-Lynn Wilkinson, Narrabundah College

Best Children’s Television Production (5 finalists)

WINNER: Animalia - Ep 18 ‘What’s The Good Word?’ (View Clip)
VIC - Ewan Burnett and Murray Pope Animalia Productions Pty Ltd in association with Porchlight Entertainment

H2O - Just Add Water - Series 2
VIC - Jonathan M Shiff, Jonathan M Shiff Productions

FARMkids
QLD - FARMkids Pty Ltd

Play Along With Ollie
NSW - Mick Elliot 9executive producer) and Katrina Sutton Nickelodeon Australia

Dust Echoes (Series 2)
VIC - ABC Innovation in conjunction with the Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Best Documentary General (5 finalists)

WINNER: Maverick Mother (View Clip)
NSW - Janet Merewether Screen Culture Pty Ltd

Ayen’s Cooking School For African Men
SA - CathySieh Mchawala and Cathy Beitz, Vida Films

Donkey in Lahore
QLD - Faramarz K-Rahber (producer, director), Faraway Productions

The Oasis
NSW - Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions

Temple of Dreams
NSW - Tom Zubrycki, Jotz Productions

Best Documentary Human Story (6 finalists)

WINNER: Maverick Mother (View Clip)
NSW - Janet Merewether Screen Culture Pty Ltd

The Oasis
NSW - Ian Darling Shark, Island Productions

Fat Chance
NSW - Yuka Skiguchi and Nicki Roller, Fat Productions

Rare Chicken Rescue
Vickie Guest (producer), Randall Wood (director), Mark Hamlyn (exec producer FA, Trish Lake (exec NSW Film Australia in association with Freshwater Productions)

One Of The Lucky Ones
VIC - Wendy Chandler

In Her Father’s Eyes
Belinda Hawkins, Elena Christie & Mara Blazic - ABC TV Australian Story

Best Documentary Science, Technology & The Environment (5 finalists)

WINNER: Seed Hunter (View Clip)
VIC - Sally Ingleton, 360 Degree Films

Australia Land of Parrots
VIC - David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Over My Dead Body
QLD - Vickie Gest and Ian Walker, Viz Poets

Sleek Geeks ‘Forces’
NSW - Cordell Jigsaw Productions

The Burning Season
NSW - Cathy Henkel and Jeff Canin, Hatchling Productions

Best Documentary Short Form (<30 mins) (5 finalists)

WINNER: Casualties of War (View Clip)
SA - Jeni Lee, Carousel Media

Halal Mate
VIC - Jeni McMahon, Rebel Films

White Sound
NSW - Sarah Tracton, Metro Screen Roller Derby Dolls Vickie Gest (producer), Phoebe Hart (director) Mark Hamlyn, Trish Lake NSW Film Australia in association with Freshwater Productions

Rare Chicken Rescue
Vickie Guest (producer), Randall Wood (director), Mark Hamlyn (exec producer FA, Trish Lake (exec NSW Film Australia in association with Freshwater Productions

Best Documentary Social & Political Issues (4 finalists)

WINNER: Hope (View Clip)
VIC - Steve Thomas and Sue Brooks, Flying Carpet Films

The Sounds of Aus - The Story of the Aussie Accent
VIC - Yael Bergman and Lawrie Zion, Princess Pictures

The Oasis
NSW - Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions

The Burning Season
NSW - Cathy Henkel and Jeff Canin, Hatchling Productions

Best Experimental (5 finalists)

WINNER: The Eternity Man (View Clip)
NSW - Rosemary Blight, John Wyver, Alex Fleetwood (producers), Goalpost Pictures

The Sacrament
ACT - Frazer Bull-Clark, Mei-Lyn Wilkinson, David Proctor, Narrabundah College

Remembering Bogle Chandler
VIC - Rebecca Young, RMIT

Four Stories - A Focus On Mental Health
VIC - Matt O’Donnell and Leigh Ryan Sting, Theory Creative

Broken Spell
VIC - Magda Matwiejew

Best Interactive / Video Game (2 finalists)

WINNER: Mayhem Intergalactic
ACT - Chris Pelling, Inventive Dingo

Order of the Machine
VIC - Drew McMahon, Victoria University

Best Multimedia (4 finalists)

WINNER: Immersion (View Clip)
VIC - Angela Barnett, Andrew Buchanan, Darren Ballingall, Christian Rubino, Chris MacKellar

The Dynamic Map - The Melbourne Story
VIC - ENESS Museum Victoria

Remembering Bogle Chandler
VIC - Rebecca Young, RMIT

Mission H2O
VIC - Stephen Huxley, Swinburne University

Best Multimodal Production (4 finalists)

WINNER: The Oasis (View Clip)
NSW - Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions

Find 815
Hoodlum / ABC (US)

Thursday’s Fictions
Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes and Karen Pearlman. NSW The Physical TV Company,
AFTRS LAMP, The Literature Board of the Australia Council

Girl Friday
VIC - Kylie Robertson, Ish Media

Best Short Fiction (5 finalists)

WINNER: Nice Shootin’ Cowboy (View Clip)
NSW - Ben Phelps, John Maynard

Hugo
VIC - Rita Walsh, Nicholas Verso, Rachel Bowen, Thaumatrope Productions

Twilight
NSW - Joe Circle Theory Collective

Edgar and Elizabeth
WA - Renee Webster / Melissa Kelly, Factor 30 Films

Life’s A Giggle
VIC - Neil Foley / Grant Hardie / Ben Milward-Bason, Monkey Business Media

EDUCATIONAL / VOCATIONAL

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Best Indigenous Resource (4 finalists)

WINNER: Watuwal Malangur Ga Nhina (Living With Dogs) (View Clip)
NT - Gregory Stehle, ARDS Inc.

Desert Heart
VIC - Jeni McMahon, Rebel Films

Courting with Justice
WA - Natalie Bell and Debbie Carmody, Taylor Media

Koori Playgroups
VIC - Nella Arthur, Playgroup Victoria

Best Instructional/Training Resource (5 finalists)

WINNER: OHS Risk Management - for the film, television and commercial production industry (View Clip)
NSW - Cathy Miller, Marguerite Grey, Jenny Barltrop, Peter Wasson, SPAA, SAVV-E, Team Effort

How to be a TV Star
NSW - Nicholas Piper with Derrick Siu Plop Entertainment in association with Onion Media

Facing Ovarian Cancer
NSW - Kay Stammers, Media One

Rollermache
VIC - Hugh Davies, ABC Multiplatform Kids Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Life’s A Giggle
VIC - Neil Foley / Grant Hardie / Ben Milward-Bason Monkey Business Media

Best Educational Multimodal Production (4 finalists)

WINNER: Australian Women In War (View Clip)
VIC - Ryebuck Media and Department of Veterans’ Affairs

The Oasis
NSW - Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions

Exploring Australian Plants
VIC - Ryebuck Media

Australians in the Vietnam War
VIC - Ryebuck Media

Best Multimedia Learning Resource (5 finalists)

WINNER: Rollermache (View Clip)
VIC - Hugh Davies ABC Multiplatform Kids Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Screen
NSW - Sabina Wynn, Australian Film Commission

Making Multicultural Australia for the 21st Century
NSW - Lyndon Sharp, Board of Studies New South Wales + Dept of Education New South Wales

Mission H2O
VIC - Stephen Huxley, Swinburne University

Dust Echoes Website
VIC - Victoria Till, ABC Innovation in conjunction with the Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Best Primary Education Resource (3 finalists)

WINNER: Eureka Multimedia English Tutor - Spelling (View Clip)
NSW - Anthony Alevras, Nodtronics Pty Ltd

Thinking Globally, Global Perspectives in the Early Years Classroom
VIC - Curriculum Corporation

Exploring Australian Plants
VIC - Ryebuck Media

Best Secondary Education Resource (5 finalists)

WINNER: Lockie Leonard (View Clip)
VIC - Bernadette o’Mahony, Australian Children’s Television Foundation

Australian Screen
NSW - Sabina Wynn, Australian Film Commission

Australian Women In War
VIC - Ryebuck Media and Department of Veterans’ Affairs

RESource Website
VIC - Tony Byrne, Catholic Education Office Melbourne

Rollermache
VIC - Hugh Davies, ABC Multiplatform Kids Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Best Tertiary Education Resource (2 finalists)

WINNER: The Oasis (View Clip)
NSW - Ian Darling, Shark Island Productions

Response Ability: Resources for teacher education: early childhood and primary
NSW - Ian Hamilton and Anna Kelly Limelight Films

STUDENT

Best Middle School (7-10) Multimedia Production (4 finalists)

WINNER: Beast (View Clip)
Victoria - Sarah Lang, St.Catherine's School

Brucinator
ACT - Diuyonshy Dube, Kwabera Anstah, Darry Tam, Joseph Guinto, Gold Creek School

The Water Boy
VIC - Stephanie Leung, Mount, St Joseph’s Girls’ College

Revenge of the Worm
VIC - Ebony Sammut, Mount St Joseph’s Girls’ College

Best Middle School (7-10) Video Production (3 finalists)

WINNER: Dropped In (View Clip)
Qld - Alyce Burnett, Immanuel Lutheran College

The Feud
WA - Balga SHS, SNSP Program Filmbites Youth Film School

Somewhere I Belong
VIC - James Tan, Overnewton Anglican Community College

Best Primary Film Video Production (4 finalists)

WINNER: Remote (View Clip)
QLD - Nera Skripic-Vuckovic, Mayfield State School

Nerdtron Vs Halfdolla
NSW - Samuel Burrows, Camdenville Public School

National Hen News
NSW - Miranda Rogers, Camdenville Public School

Up, Up and Away
NSW - Harvey Williams, Camdenville Public School

Best Primary Multimedia Production (3 finalists)

WINNER: My Life As A Rain Drop (View Clip)
VIC - Isabella Horrigan, Methodist Ladies College

A Message From The Past
VIC - Shyamila Deniyage, Lyndale Primary School

The Final
VIC - Year 6, Lyndale Primary School

Best Secondary Animation (4 finalists)

WINNER: Culture Shock (View Clip)
ACT - Mei-Lynn Wilkinson, Narrabundah College

Rut
VIC - Sarah McConnell, Firbank Grammar School

The Lands of Good and Bad
VIC - Elise Cassar, Brentwood Secondary College

Creative Creatures
NSW - Guy Verge Wallace

Best Secondary Documentary (4 finalists)

WINNER: UnAustralian (View Clip)
VIC - Ben Sale, Sandringham College

I’m A Little Teapot
VIC - Elyse McConnell, Melbourne Girls’ College

Trampoline
VIC - James Purcell, Scotch College

Emancipation
VIC - Kristen Zekic, Overnewton Anglican Community College

Best Secondary Fiction (3 finalists)

WINNER: Creative Creatures (View Clip)
NSW - Guy Verge Wallace

The Lane Game
VIC - Isabella Giovinazzo, Melbourne Girls’ College

Deception
VIC - Tom Franke, Scotch College

Best Secondary Music Video (2 finalists)

WINNER: Enough Faker (View Clip)
ACT - Frazer Bull-Clark, Daniel Matthews-Hunter, Jake Allan, Narrabundah College

Where You’ve Been Hiding
VIC - Alex Case, Wesley College

Best Senior (11-12) Multimedia Production (2 finalists)

WINNER: Zest For Life Fitness (View Clip)
VIC - Sarah McConnell, Firbank Grammar School

Video Instrument Prototype
VIC - Andy Kitchen, Footscray City College

Best Tertiary Animation (5 finalists)

WINNER: Animal Instincts (View Clip)
SA - Cameron Edser, Bond University GooRoo Animation

Crooked
VIC - Tali Gal-On, Victorian College of the Arts

Lucille
VIC - Tali Gal-On, Victorian College of the Arts

Paper City Architects
VIC - Daniel Agdag, VCA School of Film and Television

Nocturne
VIC - Rie Takeshima, Holmesglen TAFE

Best Tertiary Documentary (4 finalists)

WINNER: Undressing Vanessa (View Clip)
NSW - Matthew Pond, AFTRS

Out of the Black
VIC - Kylie Plunkett, Victorian College of the Arts

Canteen
WA - Dayne Blundell-Camden, WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan University

Searching for Michael Peterson
NSW - Jolyon Hoff, AFTRS

The Oldest Secret
VIC - Cecilia Condon, Open Channel

Best Tertiary Experimental (3 finalists)

WINNER: Theory Of The Game (View Clip)
VIC - Jasper Montana

3 hot tales
SA - Linda Kennedy, Flinders University

He Climbed In
QLD - Dylan Wiehahn, Queensland University of Technology

Best Tertiary Interactive/Video Game (3 finalists)

WINNER: Mayhem Intergalactic (View Clip)
ACT - Chris Pelling Inventive Dingo

Order of the Machine
VIC - Drew McMahon, Victoria University

Catarian Empire
VIC - Sam Mair, Victoria University

Best Tertiary Multimedia (3 finalists)

WINNER: Remembering Bogle Chandler (View Clip)
VIC - Rebecca Young, RMIT

Zodac
VIC - Yunus Ozmen, Victoria University

Mission H2O
VIC - Stephen Huxley, Swinburne University

Best Tertiary Short Fiction (4 finalists)

WINNER: Close Distance (View Clip)
NSW - Richard Vilensky, AFTRS

296 Smith St
VIC - John Evagora, Victorian College of the Arts

Mockingbird
NSW - Hannah Hilliard, AFTRS

Plastic
NSW - Sandy Widyanata, AFTRS

Images of Age, sub-category (2 finalists)

WINNER: In her father's eyes (View Clip)
VIC - Belinda Hawkins, Elena Christie and Mara Blazic, ABC TV Australian Story

The Oldest Secret
VIC - Cecilia Condon, Open Channel

TEACHER'S AWARD

WINNER: Tanya Schneider, Cherbourg State School, QLD

Julie-Anne Smith, Overnewton Anglican Community College, VIC

Katie Pinder, Mt.St Joseph Girls' College, VIC

Peter Allen, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, VIC

Chris Morgan, Newstead College, TAS