A complete list of our 2023 Award Winners

A complete list of our 2023 Award Winners

by | Jan 13, 2024 | Announcements

What we all want to know is, who took home the big awards! We are so proud to announce our winners from our 2023 Gala Finals:
SF3 Best Film Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 Best Director Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Award – SJ van Breda for Freeflow
SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Runner-Up Award – Bartosz Wozniak, Kacper Wozniak & Sally-Ann Dunn for Misaligned from TRIO Stories
SF3 Best Screenplay Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 Best Screenplay Award – Idiot Proof by Jonathan Lagudi and Bailey Spalding
SF3 Best Documentary Award – Bevan by Bevan Garozzo & Arinta Hardjowijono
SF3 Best Editing Award – Freeflow edited by SJ van Breda
SF3 Best Original Score Award – ARLO AND THE SEA by Michael Drew
SF3 Best Actress Award – Courtney Coker for Lodi
SF3 Best Actor Award – Jonathan Lagudi for Idiot Proof
SF3 & Luma Touch Finished on Mobile Award – The Art of Living (with a Mechanical Keyboard) by Ronald James Baculo
SF3 & WIFT NSW Best Female Creative Award – Michèle Jedlicka for That thing we all share
SF3 First Nations Award supported by Dolby – Charli Fletcher for The Locket
SF3 Community & Diversity Award – Nganakaapu by Harlisha Newie-Joe
SF3 Founders’ Flick Pick – ARLO & THE SEA by Damian Overton & Ruben Russo and FOFO MEANS FATHER by Denzel S. Owoo
SF3 #FILMBREAKER Award – Idiot Proof by Jonathan Lagudi & Laura Brogan-Browne
SF3 & Chicken & Chips Best Pitch Award – Reid McGowan for THE BEST
SF360 Best Film Winners – Christopher Young for The Careful Project – Kiera Jas – Thoughts and Davide Rapp for Kursaal
Congrats to all of our SF3 Kids filmmakers, their families who support them, their friends and teachers. Making a film is a team effort. BUT, who are our winners you ask? Here they are:
SF3 Kids Best Film Award High School – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford
SF3 Kids Best Film Award Primary School – My Cookie by Becky Hampson& Sofiah Wiseman
SF3 Kids Best Director Award – Watching by Indianna Thompson
SF3 Kids Best Cinematography Award – Bullet Proof Kids by Tom Morfitt-White & Charlie Wason
SF3 Kids Best Screenplay Award – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford and He She They by Lucia Lobesy
SF3 Kids Best Documentary Award – Me. My eleven years. War by Marusya Shuvalova and A Child’s Guide to Swearing: A Short Documentary by Miles Fisher
SF3 Kids Best Editing Award – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford and Alone by Connor Tattersall
SF3 Kids Best Actor Award – Tom Morfitt-White for Bullet Proof Kids and Ralph for Let Him Out
SF3 Kids Best Actress Award – Ajila Miller-Gersbach for A Day in the Life of an F-Boy
And it is my pleasure to announce our 2023 Mini Award Winners:
SF3 Mini Best International Film – Human Migrant by Kamal Mimoune TAHTAH
SF3 Mini Best Australian Film – Mocha Madness by Greta O’Donoghue & Fran Nagle
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – Clock Off by Martin Reyes
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – If Nature Could Talk by Billie Dean
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – The Elements of Movement by Brionne Samuel Olsen
SF3 & Spineless Wonders Best Adaptation Award – The Beginning of the End by Tirel Weerasingha
SF3 & Spineless Wonders Best Adaptation Award – COVID Travel by Shady Cosgrove
We kick off this week with 2 free online masterclasses!

We kick off this week with 2 free online masterclasses!

by | Nov 13, 2023 | Announcements

Kicking off SF3 2023 we have 2 FREE ONLINE MASTERCLASSES and we want you to come along.
Wednesday 15th November at Midday AEST / 1 am GMT / 5pm PST, join us for a music editing masterclass hosted by Andy Wilson, Head of A&R at Melodie Music where he will demonstrate the Melodie platform and features, and offer some great tips on music cutting and editing.
Then on on Thursday 16th November – 7pm AEST / 8am GMT / 12 midnight PST join our Editing Masterclass with the legends at Luma Touch – the world’s top editing app for all devices. This masterclass is designed for filmmakers of all ages and levels of editing experience. The Luma Team will show you the tips of editing on a device, all about their amazing app and will be available to answer all your questions.
Sign up for FREE here – https://sf3.eventbrite.com.au
Check out our new festival trailer!

Check out our new festival trailer!

by | Oct 20, 2023 | Announcements

Have you seen out trailer? Featuring a selection of our 2023 Finalists from across our 5 categories. Come and experience them for yourselves on the big screen and experience the best in smartphone cinema from across the world at our 9th annual SF3. Happening in Sydney at the Actors Centre Australia November 18th and 19th plus online too.

Get your tickets  via link on our homepage.

Trailer edited by our amazing Gala Finalist, SJ van Breda.

Lithgow Halloween Film Comp is open for entries

Lithgow Halloween Film Comp is open for entries

by | Oct 13, 2023 | Announcements

Do you have a short horror film filmed on a phone? Or have an idea for one? The Lithgow Halloween ‘Fright Night’ Film Competition is open for entries and wants horror films 10 mins or less. They must be shot on a phone or tablet and can be any form of horror, as long as they are G rated and there are 4 x $500 cash prizes up for grabs. Entry is FREE here – https://filmfreeway.com/LithgowHalloweenFilmCompetition or email lithgowtransformation@westernsydney.edu.au
Films will be judged in 4 category areas; ‘Most Creative’, ‘Best Performance’ and ‘Best Youth Film’ There will also be a ‘People’s Choice’ award and great prizes will be on offer.
Shortlisted films will be screened and winners announced at a spooktacular gala event launching the 2023 Lithgow Halloween Festival at 7pm Friday 27 October at the Lithgow Transformation Hub.
Lithgow Transformation Hub is partnering with Seven Valleys Tourism and Events and SF3 for the fourth year to hold the Smartphone film competition at this year’s Lithgow Halloween festival.
Drum roll please for our SF3 Kids Finalists.

Drum roll please for our SF3 Kids Finalists.

by | Oct 12, 2023 | Announcements

We are extremely proud to share with you our 2023 SF3 Kids Finalists. These films are the best up and coming filmmakers, ready to win Oscars in a decade or so. In no particular order, a huge congrats to these filmmakers screening at our SF3 Kids Finals on Sunday 19th November at the Actors Centre Australia at 11am Early bird tickets on sale now at https://sf3.eventbrite.com.au with code: sf3earlybird
Peachy’s Movie by Harriet McLean
An Awful Plot of Grass by Casimir Marshall
To be an actor by Aisata Bah
Watching by Indianna Thompson
How to be a Successful Serial Killer by Jared Elliott
HairTIES by Jade & BIllie Chipper
Alone by Connor Tattersall
Wake Up by Lewis Manning-Lourey
Time Machine by Aston Di Donato
Shaun Crossman: Elite Road and Track Cyclist by Felix Crossman
Blood Will Have Blood by Toby Makeham & Stella O’Brien
Fish out of Water by Spencer Tomlin
He She They by Lucia Lobsey
At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford
Happy Birthday by Evie Lemay, Annabelle Szewcow & Trixie Raoud
Warren: An Interview with a Cartoonist by Amelie Kordina-Barker
A Day in the Life of an F-boy by Ajila Miller-Gersbach & Olivia Bottom
CATastrophe by Noah Kennedy
Let Him Out by Hope St Youth Centre & Milk Crate Theatre
The Tea Party by Natasha Gilmore & Pupils of St Albert’s Primary School
Taken by Prakash Gandhi Natarajan
Wish by Cabramatta Public School Class 6E
How to Defuse a Bomb by Wayne Tunks and Centre Stage Academy O.P.A
The Forgetful Memory Club by Aaron Scully & The Hills Drama School
Bullet Proof Kids by Tom Morfitt-White & Charlie Wason
Me. My eleven years. War by Marusya Shuvalova
Doll Disaster by Zac Deren
A Child’s Guide to Swearing: a Short Documentary by Miles Fisher