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WINNERS
MONTH OF OCTOBER
Devil in a Lawyers Suit
The film is about human dignity.
At the outer reaches of the marginalised are vulnerable migrant male rape victims of Refugee Council of Australia President David Bitel, who was given a sort of diplomatic immunity by the legal profession to sexually abuse his vulnerable clients at will.
After Mr Bitel was arrested and charged with 21 counts of sexual assault including rape the legal profession twice voted him as one of Australia’s best immigration lawyers.
Six weeks after his arrest Mr Bitel was a guest of honour at an ActionAid Australia Forum where former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was the keynote speaker.
Mr Bitel died in August 2016 before he could face justice at Court.
Police estimated Mr Bitel sexually assaulted 500 victims.
Now two of his victims speak out for the first time, harrowingly describing Mr Bitel as ‘evil’ and their ongoing struggle with trauma including suicidal thoughts.
The Australian legal profession had a true monster in its midst.
Winner- Best Director -Mark Tarrant, Otto Khoo
Special Jury Award - Mahesh Gautam, Imran Khan
At the outer reaches of the marginalised are vulnerable migrant male rape victims of Refugee Council of Australia President David Bitel, who was given a sort of diplomatic immunity by the legal profession to sexually abuse his vulnerable clients at will.
After Mr Bitel was arrested and charged with 21 counts of sexual assault including rape the legal profession twice voted him as one of Australia’s best immigration lawyers.
Six weeks after his arrest Mr Bitel was a guest of honour at an ActionAid Australia Forum where former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was the keynote speaker.
Mr Bitel died in August 2016 before he could face justice at Court.
Police estimated Mr Bitel sexually assaulted 500 victims.
Now two of his victims speak out for the first time, harrowingly describing Mr Bitel as ‘evil’ and their ongoing struggle with trauma including suicidal thoughts.
The Australian legal profession had a true monster in its midst.
Winner- Best Director -Mark Tarrant, Otto Khoo
Special Jury Award - Mahesh Gautam, Imran Khan
She's The One
A twist on the classic girl meets guy love story. Lisa meets a great guy named Dave. They have been dating for a while and Lisa thinks that he may be the one. She does not know that Dave is a part of a cult that tries to breed and populate the Earth with alien lifeforms and he is planning to sacrifice Lisa to be a vessel for the alien seed. She is actually the one
Best Director - Rizky Budiyanto
Best Cinematography - Rab Roslan
Best VFX/Editing - Kresna Prasetyahutama
Best Director - Rizky Budiyanto
Best Cinematography - Rab Roslan
Best VFX/Editing - Kresna Prasetyahutama
Mascarada
A man who hides behind a perfect profession, a clown who is the guardian of his truth.
His masks have been the shields of his secret, but he continues looking for the colors to paint his life.
The smile of others gives meaning to his soul, but he realizes that his soul is meaningless without his own smile.
Best Actor -Oscar Pereira
Best Film – Directed by Milagros Bernales Lavalle
His masks have been the shields of his secret, but he continues looking for the colors to paint his life.
The smile of others gives meaning to his soul, but he realizes that his soul is meaningless without his own smile.
Best Actor -Oscar Pereira
Best Film – Directed by Milagros Bernales Lavalle
Who Killed Jazz
Elite professional jazz musicians address the elephant in the room: why are musicians living in poverty while the club owners and music distributors profit off of their life's work? Have the musicians lost touch with their audience, or have they been duped and enslaved by a brutal music business?
Action packed with live performances and candid behind the scenes revelations.
Winner - Best Emerging Film Maker - Ben Makinen
Action packed with live performances and candid behind the scenes revelations.
Winner - Best Emerging Film Maker - Ben Makinen
Blond Poison
Aurora is a seductive lolita: she lives, perhaps unconsciously,
between good and evil, and so she declares the disturbing and powerful beauty of her adolescence. Aurora has a friend, an anthropomorphic cat with a grotesque demonic aspect, which only Aurora can see: the cat talks to her about freedom and reveals the unspeakable truths about sexuality and morbid desire.
Winner-Best Emerging Filmmaker-Fabio Giovinazzo
between good and evil, and so she declares the disturbing and powerful beauty of her adolescence. Aurora has a friend, an anthropomorphic cat with a grotesque demonic aspect, which only Aurora can see: the cat talks to her about freedom and reveals the unspeakable truths about sexuality and morbid desire.
Winner-Best Emerging Filmmaker-Fabio Giovinazzo
Orcus
A priest, about to lose his church due to money problems, gathers together a team of desperate men to rob a the local diocese. During the robbery they kidnap a young woman who hides a dark secret.
Winner-Emerging Film makers -Peter Daniel Kane, Jimmy Hagri
Winner-Emerging Film makers -Peter Daniel Kane, Jimmy Hagri
Manitham
A poor backward class girl from kolkata is kidnapped and handed
Over to some child trafficking mafias
The girl child is brought to bangalore city and made her to beg in
The traffic signals. A freelance photographer notices this girl and
Saves her from the mafia.
He takes her home and tries to communicate with her and tries to
Get her back to her parents.
In the process of communication he gets to know that her tongue
Has been cut and she is unable to talk anymore.
He somehow tries communicating and understands that she is
From kolkata.
She is been taken to kolkata to find her parents and in this journey
The photographer fails to find them and get her back to her
Parents.
The film ends with, the photographer returns to bangalore
Disappointed and then mafia find his location and kill him the
Process of kidnapping the girl back to home or not.
Winner- Best actor- K Ganesan
Winner - Best child actor - baby Mehvish
Over to some child trafficking mafias
The girl child is brought to bangalore city and made her to beg in
The traffic signals. A freelance photographer notices this girl and
Saves her from the mafia.
He takes her home and tries to communicate with her and tries to
Get her back to her parents.
In the process of communication he gets to know that her tongue
Has been cut and she is unable to talk anymore.
He somehow tries communicating and understands that she is
From kolkata.
She is been taken to kolkata to find her parents and in this journey
The photographer fails to find them and get her back to her
Parents.
The film ends with, the photographer returns to bangalore
Disappointed and then mafia find his location and kill him the
Process of kidnapping the girl back to home or not.
Winner- Best actor- K Ganesan
Winner - Best child actor - baby Mehvish
Team Pierre
A look into the life and times of San Francisco's iconic skateboarder and personality, Pierre sums up San Francisco in one person alone.
Winner- Best Director - Pete Koff
Winner- Best Director - Pete Koff
Learning the Covid-way
Winner- Best Documentary - Liliane Chretien, Dave Mende
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This is a story about a hard-working trolley collector who is given some grace by a homeless man during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Synopsis
In the city of Parramatta during the COVID19 pandemic, people are frantically going about their business stocking up on toilet paper and other essentials, behaving much like ants gathering their stockpile.
A key element amid all of this is the shopping trolley. It's what enables all these people to gather what they need and bring them to their homes. An overlooked person in all this is the trolley collector.
Around the Parramatta vicinity, a trolley collector gathers all the stray trolleys left in the abandoned places. He also encounters a gruff old man who won't give up his trolley to the collector.
As the collector tries to track down the last of the trolleys, the old man sees the effort the collector has gone to, to do work for everyone else, and has change of heart. Even though he is homeless himself and needs this trolley, he decides to return the trolley with a little orange from his own stash as an offering.
Winner- Best Emerging Filmmakers - Chrishantha Surith Fernando
Synopsis
In the city of Parramatta during the COVID19 pandemic, people are frantically going about their business stocking up on toilet paper and other essentials, behaving much like ants gathering their stockpile.
A key element amid all of this is the shopping trolley. It's what enables all these people to gather what they need and bring them to their homes. An overlooked person in all this is the trolley collector.
Around the Parramatta vicinity, a trolley collector gathers all the stray trolleys left in the abandoned places. He also encounters a gruff old man who won't give up his trolley to the collector.
As the collector tries to track down the last of the trolleys, the old man sees the effort the collector has gone to, to do work for everyone else, and has change of heart. Even though he is homeless himself and needs this trolley, he decides to return the trolley with a little orange from his own stash as an offering.
Winner- Best Emerging Filmmakers - Chrishantha Surith Fernando
Copper Lines
Copper Lines was written and recorded by Banjii & Mayuri to represent transformation, healing and salvation brought about by love and faith in our often dark and depressing world. But there is hope. And sometimes we find hope in unexpected places. In this song, hope is represented by a spring, unseen on the surface, that exists below a hot desert that gives life to a tree.
The music video is mainly shot in the beautiful landscapes of Sedona, Arizona creating a real life meets fantasy feeling. It also captures some raw and human moments of Banjii & Mayuri's elopement on the one year anniversary of when this song was written by the two of them, and in the same spot where the lyrics were penned.
Winner- Best Original Single - Banjii & Mayuri
The music video is mainly shot in the beautiful landscapes of Sedona, Arizona creating a real life meets fantasy feeling. It also captures some raw and human moments of Banjii & Mayuri's elopement on the one year anniversary of when this song was written by the two of them, and in the same spot where the lyrics were penned.
Winner- Best Original Single - Banjii & Mayuri
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