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TropJR Awards 2008

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The short film competition TROP JR for Kids! By Kids! was held for the first time on Sunday 17th February 2008, The Domain, Sydney.

Entries were submitted by students 15 years and under from around Australia and eight young filmmakers were selected as finalists. Every film had to contain the Trop Jr Signature Item, or TSI, to be eligible for Trop Jr. The TSI for this was ‘Green.

EnhanceTV congratulates the winner Guy Verge Wallace of NSW for his film Poor Joshua Verde. Congratulations also goes to the finalists for their inspiring films featured on the following pages.

Trop Jr finalists and judges at The World’s Largest Short Film Festival – for Kids! By Kids! Sunday 17th February 2008 The Domain, Sydney. (Click to see full size image)

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	Title:	Poor Joshua Verde - Winner

	Director:	Guy Verge Wallace


	Details:	A boy with a tragic childhood goes on an enchanting and emotional adventure that helps reconnect with his family and utilize his creative talents so that he can be happy once again.

	Duration:	5.35 minutes

	Title:	Besties

	Director:	Jasmin-Johanna Mobbs


	Details:	Besties is a film about Ben and his five chooks. Come on a journey into his backyard to discover some interesting facts about chooks and the mischief they can get up to.

	Duration:	6.59 minutes

	Title:	The Ducks of General Green

	Director:	Tim Brown


	Details:	A retired military officer loses the plot and starts treating his ducks as soldiers.

	Duration:	6.55 minutes

	Title:	The Life of Perfarto

	Director:	Students Years 5/6


	Details:	A comedic biography about a superstar called Perfarto Pumpkinson with bizarre and special talents.

	Duration:	7.00 minutes

	Title:	Ode to Collector

	Director:	Marisa Lai


	Details:	What are the motives behind a compulsive collector? What do they collect and why? Meet Mr. Richard Henry Sullivan and peek into his secret life.

	Duration:	2.20 minutes

	Title:	Free Free At Last

	Director:	Japonica Mauala


	Details:	A young girl awakens in a dungeon, surrounded by darkness. There are strange noises and smells and the distant echoes of something terrible.

	Duration:	4.34 minutes

	Title:	Imaginature

	Director:	Chester Greaves, Callen Hardie and Matt Cochran


	Details:	What happens when nature gets muddled up with imagination? Found objects take on an absurd life of their own as they evolve and mutate into different forms.

	Duration:	2.11 minutes

	Title:	Remote

	Director:	Nera Skripic-Vuckovic


	Details:	A sadistic headmaster rules his school with an iron fist... but when a student discovers a mysterious link between a remote and the headmaster, has he picked on one kid too many?

	Duration:	3.51 minutes

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