Drum roll please… presenting the 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Award winners!

The winners of the 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards were announced on Friday 24 October at a ‘big screen extravaganza’ held at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre.

“We were astounded by the truly inspirational array of productions – across a wide variety of forms – from both students and industry which we received this year as part of the program. To have been ranked as a winner or as a finalist this year was again something of which everyone should rightly have been very proud,” commented Julie-Anne Smith, Executive Officer, ATOM Awards.

Accolades to everyone for a fabulous display of media,” she concluded.
 
…and this year’s winners are:

(QLD)

Inspire the next generation of EnhanceTV ATOM Award winners

Congratulations to all the winners in this year’s EnhanceTV ATOM Awards. Teachers who want to inspire the next generation of award winning filmmakers should visit www.enhanceTV.com.au for free resources to make using film and television in the classroom easy.

Browse through the feature articles and study guides to find new ways of using programs in class, and make sure you check out the Editor’s picks of the week.

The free weekly email guide lets you know about upcoming educational programs, and because most schools have a Screenrights television copying licence, you can use the guide to program a recording schedule.

Alternatively, EnhanceTV can record programs for you – without ads.

EnhanceTV is brought to you by Screenrights, the non-profit copyright collecting society that licenses educational copying from TV and radio, distributing royalties to copyright owners.

For more information visit www.enhancetv.com.au and www.screenrights.org

Thank you to our 2008 sponsors and funding bodies

Without the tremendous support of our wonderful team of sponsors and funding bodies, it would not be possible to present the ATOM Awards each year.

We would like to extend an enormous thank you for the 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards sponsors:

• Avid
• Adobe Asia Pacific
• Victorian Government through the Department of Planning and Community Development
• Madman Entertainment
• Deakin University
• Monash University Faculty of Arts
• Encore Magazine
• Metro Magazine
• Metroscreen
• Open Channel
• Qpix
• SBS
• 2Camels
• Netagi
• Digistore Solutions
• Scotch College Melbourne
• Overnewton Anglican Community College.

We would like to extend an enormous thank you for the 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards funding bodies:

• Screen Australia
• South Australian Film Corporation
• New South Wales Film and Television Office
• Film Victoria

And thanks to our endorsing association – the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) 

ATOM Finalists being seen and heard …

‘The Oasis’, finalist in the ‘Best Multimodal Production’ and ‘Best Tertiary Resource’ ATOM awards, recently received a nomination for the Independent Films (IF) Awards in Best Documentary, an Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination for Best Documentary and an Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Awards nomination for the Best Documentary Director category.

‘The Burning Season’, an ATOM finalist in ‘Best Documentary Science, Technology and the Environment’ and ‘Best Documentary, Social & Political Issues’ has been nominated for an Independent Films (IF) award for Best Documentary.

'296 Smith Street', at ATOM finalist in 'Best Tertiary Short Fiction' recently won an Australian Directors Guild award for best direction in a student film.

'White Sound', which is an ATOM finalist in the Best Documentary, Short Form category recently won Best Short Documentary at the World of Women (WOW) Film Festival and was awarded Best Film at the Harmony Film Festival.

Cameron Edser, creator of ‘Animal Instincts’, a finalist in the Best Tertiary Animation recently signed a big deal that will see the film converted into 3D and distributed worldwide by the 3D Film Factory in San Diego.

Call for entries – 2009 ATOM Awards

Have you or someone you know created a production worthy of an ATOM Award?

Well, tell us about it…

and be a part of the future of Australian screen.

Each year, the ATOM Awards program recognises excellence in over thirty categories of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia and celebrates the very best of Australian and New Zealand production.                                                  

The 2009 ATOM Awards will again be open to the education and industry sectors, students, production companies, independent filmmakers, educational bodies and educational producers from Australia and New Zealand.

The call for entries for the 2009 ATOM Awards will open on
Monday 1 December 2008. 

Don't miss out on the opportunity to be recognised with an ATOM Award!

Visit www.atomawards.org for more information

Please note: Photos from the evening are currently being processed and will be uploaded onto the site soon - keep an eye out!