Past Winners
Best Australian (Live-Action) Short Film
2025: Dusty (Directed by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor / Produced by Travis Jeffery, Elizabeth Sarah Middleton & Valentin Lang / Written by Travis Jeffery)
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
2025: My Monthly Struggle (Directed by Crystal Tai)
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)
2025: Exam (Directed by Jan Naszewski / Written by Jan Naszewski & Agnieszka Matan)
2024 (Live-Action): Thursday Special (Directed, Produced & Written by Varun Tandon / Produced by Krati Tandon & Karan Luthra)
2024 (Animation): Monster (Directed & Written by Eric Giessmann & Piers Goffart / Produced by Eric Giessmann)
2023 (Live-Action): Café Marylin (Directed by András Reszeli-Soós / Produced & Written by András Attila Farkas)
2023 (Animation): Reincarnation Mall (Directed by Eric Giessmann & Piers Goffart / Written by Eric Giessmann / Produced by Eric Giessmann, Piers Goffart & Nicole Jankowski)
Best International Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: Mia (Directed by Marco Noé / Produced by Marco Noé, Chico Kretzer, Fred Winter, & Inae Maree)
Best South Australian Short Film
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: M-8 (Directed by Dante Niedzwiedz/ Produced by Dante Niedzwiedz & Alice Reardon / Written by Angus Becke-Smith)
Best Micro Short Film
2025: NGADJURI Spirit and Songs of Country (Directed & Produced by Quenten Agius & Kim Mavromatis / Written by Quenten Agius)
2024: Little Hiccups (Directed & Written by Fitriani Revanda / Produced by Kate Cawley)
2023: Impulse (Directed by Nasim Nasr)
Best Unley Short Film
2025: The Crease Of This Couch (Directed, Produced & Written by Jada Zilm)
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
2025: Cats (Directed by Danilo Stanimirović / Produced by Danilo Stanimirović & Ikonija Jeftić / Written by Irena Parezanović)
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 South Australian Student Short Film
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: Edward Has A Tree Inside Him (Directed & Written by Kristoffer Lucia / Produced by Kristoffer Lucia & Genevieve Brandenburg)
Best Screenplay
This award was introduced in 2024
2025: Lonnie and the Liarbird (Written by Brydie-Rose Peters)
2024: Roots (Written by Sebastian Benn & Zachary Benn)
Best South Australian Screenplay
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: Beasties (Written by Kavitha Anandasivam)
Best Director
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (Dusty)
Best Actor
This award was introduced in 2025
2025: Travis Jeffery (Dusty)
Audience Award
2025: Dusty (Directed by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor / Produced by Travis Jeffery, Elizabeth Sarah Middleton & Valentin Lang / Written by Travis Jeffery)
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)
Honourable Mentions
2025:
1. Bear (Directed & Written by Rebecca Parker / Produced by Sarah Price)
2. Sisters (Directed & Written by Luke Neher & Sam Gill / Produced by Elle Marsh)
3. Once A Year (Directed by Caleb Keyte & Mertcan Omer Damoglu / Produced by Caleb Keyte / Written by Mercan Omer Damoglu)
4. Letters (Directed, Produced & Written by Aysel Küçüksu)
2024:
1. Repose (Directed & Written by Nathan Still / Produced by Nathan Still & Natasha Frisch)
2. The Only Son (Directed & Written by Piotr Matyja / Produced by Wojciech Fry Lewis)
3. Yakka (Directed & Written by Jack Shepherd / Produced by Matthew Toon & Lena Buchanan)
4. Monster (Directed & Written by Eric Giessmann & Piers Goffart / Produced by Eric Giessmann)
2023:
1. The 7th Night: MaoMao Returns (Directed & Written by ahLoong / Produced by Edmund Chan & Raye Lee)
2. Flappy (Directed, Produced & Written by Darcy Conlan)