2019 Nominees & Winners
The 2019 Byron Bay Film Festival has 14 awards for excellence across the following categories:
Dramatic Feature
Documentary
Short Film
Surf Film
Byron Film – our Locals Award
Animation
Experimental Film
Cinematography
Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year
Screenplay
Cinematic VR Experience
Best Interactive VR Experience
Music Documentary
The Rob Stewart Environmental Film Award
Young Australian Filmmaker of The Year Finalists
David Szasz
Luca Blades
Abbie Pobjoy
Julia Dawsom
Claudia Bailey
Tom Parolin
Jake Mannix
Victoria Thompson
Julian Cullen
Olivia Altavilla
Winner - Claudia Bailey
Byron Bay International Screenplay Finalists
Tim Schildberger: Alone Together
RC Arthur: Sailor
Anderson Boyd: The Lease of Nature
DJ McPherson: His Name is Jeremiah
Gabrielle Gozo: Thunder Roars, Get Indoors
John Pisano-Thomsen: The Politics of Love and Dance
David Hearne: The Case of the Notorious Roboticist
Joanne Bellew: Mojo
Philip Sedgwick: Rejected by Rumor
James Mayon: Fear Sum
Joanne Bellew: Rudy’s Christmas Revenge
Taylor Bennett: Carry On
Joe D’Arcy: 1966
Neil Mansfield: The Wood for the Trees
Lachlan Marks: The Dead Ends
1st Place - James Mayson - Fear Sum
2nd Place - Anderson Boyd - The Lease of Nature
3rd Place - John Pisano-Thomsen - The Politics of Love and Dance
Best Byron Film
Our award for locally created films, all nominees are Northern Rivers filmmakers
Winner - Manus
Best Animation
All Animated Films are nominees
Winner - Hurlevent
Best Cinematic VR Experience
All 360 Experiences are nominees
Winner - THE LEAP - Inside Architect Dorte Mandrup's Mind
Best Interactive VR Experience
All Interactive VR Experiences are nominees
Winner - The Holy City
Honourable Mention - Gloomy Eyes Part 2
Best Music Video Nominees
All Music Video Finalists are nominees
Winner - Pub Talk
Best Cinematography Nominees
Kofi and Lartey
Out Deh - The Youth of Jamaica
A Son of Man
Rear View Mirror
Rising Water
Winner - Kofi and Lartey
Rob Stewart Environmental Film Award Nominees
An Island in the Continent
Guardian
Kifaru
Kofi and Lartey
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock
Winner - Kifaru
Best Experimental Film Nominees
Blue Beard
Continuum 01 - South in Self Exile
Mystique Sequence
Rising Water
Snapshots
The Year is 2020
Winner - Continuum 01 - South in Self Exile
Best Music Documentary Nominees
Out Deh - The Youth of Jamaica
Live Baby Live
Eliades Ochoa - From Cuba to The World
Winner - Out Deh - The Youth of Jamaica
Best Surf Film Nominees
Beyond The Noise
Nordurland
Out deh - The Youth of Jamaica
Pacifico
She is the Ocean
Winner - She is the Ocean
Best Short Film Nominees
An Act of Love
Elders
May Day
Oslo
Nero
Snapshots
Winner - Nero
Best Documentary Nominees
Dosed
In My Blood It Runs
Kifaru
Why Can't I Be Me Around You
Out Deh - The Youth of Jamaica
Winner - In My Blood It Runs
Best Dramatic Feature Nominees
Alice
A Son of Man
Measure For Measure
The Cave
This World Won't Break
Winner - Alice
Best Film Nominees
Alice
In My Blood It Runs
Kifaru
Out Deh - The Youth of Jamaica
The Cave
Winner - In My Blood It Runs