AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2010
winner form y The Lost Thing ( dir. Andrew Ruhemann et. al. )agent Melbourne : Passion Pictures Australia , 2010 Z1700980 2010 single work film/TV fantasy'A boy discovers a bizarre looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realising it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference from everyone else, who barely notice its presence, each unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to their day to day lives. For reasons he does not explain, the boy empathises with the creature, and sets out to find a "place' for it".'
Source: The Lost Thing website, http://www.thelostthing.com/
Sighted: 21/06/2010
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Year: 2007
winner form y The Girl Who Swallowed Bees ( dir. Paul McDermott ) Australia : Australian Film Commission , 2007 Z1456432 2007 single work film/TV fantasy horror'"THE GIRL WHO SWALLOWED BEES" is the story of a confused and upset child who only sees one way out of her emotional turmoil. She settles on bizarre method to hasten her demise. Instead nature conspires to affect her in a life-altering and ultimately, a life-affirming way.'
Source: Author's website (http://www.paulmcdermott.com.au/the-girl-who-swallowed-bees/). (Sighted: 19/7/2012)
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Year: 2003
winner form y Harvie Krumpet ( dir. Adam Elliot ) Australia : Melodrama Pictures , 2003 Z1575863 2003 single work film/TV humour fantasyA claymation film telling the story of Harvie Krumpet, an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck. From being born with Tourette's Syndrome, to getting struck by lightning, to having a testicle removed, to developing Alzheimers disease: Harvie's troubles seem unending! Yet Harvie learns many lessons in life and enjoys its many fruits. He finds love, freedom, nudity, and ultimately the true meaning of what it is to be human.
(Source: National Film and Sound Archive record.)