Tomorrow (Tuesday 30 November 2021) the winners of the 19th MyState Bank Student Film Festival will be announced live from 10am at the Theatre Royal in Hobart, shown online and live streamed.
258 films were entered in this year’s festival from Tasmania and around Australia, with more than $20,000 in prizes to be awarded across 26 categories. The 24 judges included high profile Tasmanians from film, television, animation and cinematography – as well as Premier Peter Gutwein.
First time alumni judge, 20 year-old Amara Gantz, entered the festival in 2015, and then won the best animation category in 2016 as a student at Taroona High School.
In 2019, through an internship with Screen Australia, she went to Portland, Oregon USA, to work on the animated movie, Pinocchio. She’s now back in Hobart working on local animation projects and short films.
The short film festival is open to primary, secondary and university students across Australia. This year’s theme or feature item was ‘window’.
The students’ films can be viewed on the festival website: mystatefilmfestival.com.au.
