Past Winners

Best Australian (Live-Action) Short Film

2024: Cactus (Directed & Written by Milena Bennett / Produced by Harry Greenwood & Harriet Dixon-Smith)

2024: Dad (Directed, Produced & Written by Riley Eli Jones / Produced by Jade Whelan)

2023: The Drivers (Directed & Produced by Fraser Cameron / Produced by James Bateman)

Best Australian (Animation) Short Film

2024: Darwin Story (Directed & Written by Natasha Tonkin / Produced by Yeshen Venema & Eero Heinonen)

2023: The Better Angels (Directed & Written by Michael Cusack / Produced by Richard Chataway)

Best International (Live-Action) Short Film

2024: Thursday Special (Directed, Produced & Written by Varun Tandon / Produced by Krati Tandon & Karan Luthra)

2023: Café Marylin (Directed by András Reszeli-Soós / Produced & Written by András Attila Farkas)

Best International (Animation) Short Film

2024: Monster (Directed & Written by Eric Giessmann & Piers Goffart / Produced by Eric Giessmann)

2023: Reincarnation Mall (Directed by Eric Giessmann & Piers Goffart / Written by Eric Giessmann / Produced by Eric Giessmann, Piers Goffart & Nicole Jankowski)

Best Micro Short Film

2024: Little Hiccups (Directed & Written by Fitriani Revanda / Produced by Kate Cawley)

2023: Impulse (Directed by Nasim Nasr)

Best Unley Short Film

2024: A Million Lives (Directed, Produced & Written by Dante Niedzwiedz)

2023: Djaambi (Directed & Written by Joel Brown / Produced by Jodie Kirkbride)

Best Student Short Film

2024: Does It Come With a Warranty? (Directed by Tom Lawrence-Doyle / Produced by Jarrah Murphy & Nicholas Bourlostos / Written by Jarrah Murphy)

2023: Evacuation Afghanistan: The Story of Erfan (Directed & Written by Angus Rawson / Produced by Lila Kolomitsev)

Best Screenplay

This award was introduced in 2024

2024: Roots (Written by Sebastian Benn & Zachary Benn)

Audience Award

2024: Mary in the Mirror (Directed & Written by Justine Vlachoulis / Produced by Trinity-Lee Brown)

2023: Evacuation Afghanistan: The Story of Erfan (Directed & Written by Angus Rawson / Produced by Lila Kolomitsev)