SF3 Gala Winners Announced!

SF3 Gala Winners Announced!

DRUM ROLL…for all the winners from our 10th Annual SF3 Gala Finals this past weekend.
A huge thank you to our Major Sponsors Luma Touch and Blackmagic Design, our Silver Sponsors Melodie Music and Accounting Heart, Our Bronze Sponsors Chicken and Chips Casting and Rubber Monkey and all of our Prize Sponsors who helped us give away over $50,000 in prizes!
And the winners are:
SF3 Best Film Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher – Australia
SF3 Blackmagic Camera Award – Reid McGowan & Mik Gojic – Australia
SF3 Blackmagic Camera High School Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher – Australia
SF3 Best Feature Film Award Winner – LIAR by Tay Jade Barrientos – Australia
SF3 Best Feature Film Award Winner – Circumcision by Yuri Zeltser – USA
SF3 Best Feature Film Runner-Up Award – Voices Unheard by Aaron Scully, Aarushi Singla, Danielle Attard, Davita Ankrah, Fintan Hogan, Jared Elliott, Leisel Hussey, Riley Fletcher, Sierra Turner, Riley Taylor & Olivia Charlotte – Castle Hill, NSW – 2154
SF3 Best Screenplay Award Supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild– Ashes to Dust by Clark Lealand Childers – USA & Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher- Australia
SF3 Best Director Award – HoManHo in HoManTin by Chan Wai Yee, Wylie – Hong Kong
SF3 Best Director Runner-Up Award – Jack Kuei for Dimming -Taiwan
SF3 & Australian Cinematographers Society Best Cinematography Award – Ekstasis by Bharat R. Sekhar – India
SF3 & Australian Cinematographers Society Best Cinematography Runner-Up Award – Cassius Rayner for The Missing – UK – and Jerry Hsu for Dimming -Taiwan
The SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Award Special Mention – NoFilter Productions for Don’t Ignore Me – Australia
SF3 Best Documentary Award – The Other 90 Percent by Alexandra Guillossou – USA – & a common woman by Debora Diniz – Brazil
SF3 Best Original Score Award Supported by the Australian Guild of Screen Composers – Ho ManHo in HoManTin by Mark Tai – Hong Kong & A Little Strange by Michael Drew – Australia
SF3 & Luma Touch Finished on Mobile Award – I THINK, THEREFORE I AM by Benjamin Lapierre – France
SF3 Best Actress Award – Diane Gaeta for Ashes to Dust – USA & Ally O’Brien for The Goat – Australia
SF3 Founders’ Flick Pick – The Vanished River and The Thing by Haolun Jiang – China
SF3 Best Editing Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Nick Payne – Australia
SF3 Best Actor Award – Reid McGowan for The Meaning of No – Australia & Nicholas Sampson for A Little Strange – Australia
SF3 & WIFT NSW NSW Best Female Creative Award – Anya Dunstone for Sunny Blues – Australia
SF3 #FILMBREAKER Award – The Rectangle Love Triangle by Mina Asfour – Australia
SF3 and Chicken and Chips Casting Pitch Award Winner – Mina Asfour – Australia
SF3 Best Social Video Award Winner – The Therapist by Aaron Scully – Australia
SF3 Best AI Film Award Winner – The Night the Monster Disappeared by Benny Shklovsky – Israel & At the Mountains of Madness by Buğra Mert Alkayalar – Turkey
SF3 films looking amazing on the big screen ready for this weekend!

SF3 films looking amazing on the big screen ready for this weekend!

Photo dump but we couldn’t stop taking photos at our test screenings yesterday at the Palace Cinemas Chauvel and The Randwick Ritz Cinema because the SF3 films all look incredible on the big screen! The films are ready and we can’t wait to share them with you. Come and join us this Saturday, Sunday and Monday and witness smartphone cinema at its finest! Guarantee you’ll be inspired to make a film for SF3 2025!

SF3 opens in style at ACMI in Melbourne

And just like that SF3 2024 is off and away after our opening weekend in Melbourne. The MINA and SF3 Festival was an incredible night at ACMI. Loved meeting new filmmakers to the SF3 family, connecting with old ones including Ronald James Baculo , Susie Sparkes and Callum Pritchard – who made his first SF3 film when he was just 13 and has now graduated with Honours in Film Studies!!! And my film, Career Fight from Bus Stop Films blown up on the ACMI big screen! But the best is working alongside Max Schleser, a true pioneer and world-class innovator and one of the OGs in this space. Congrats to all of our filmmakers- Ronald, Joel Wilson, Jack Weltman-Jansen, Lea Savannah Phillips, Juanita Deely, Michael Shlain, Kosseca Films, Greg Coates and Mitchell Noga.

Melbourne here we come!

Melbourne here we come!

Max Schleser from MINA has tested our films on the big screen at ACMI and look how fab they look up there! Cannot wait to kick off our 3rd MINA & SF3 Festival tomorrow night. Join us at ACMI in Fed Square from 6-9pm for some of the best smartphone films from two of the top fests plus a special screening of ‘Career Fight’ from Bus Stop Films and Angela Blake starring Chloé Hayden and Chris Bunton.

Get your tix now – https://events.humanitix.com/mina-and-sf3-smartphone-film…

Experience our Feature Film Finalist, Circumcision, on the big screen.

Experience our Feature Film Finalist, Circumcision, on the big screen.

Esteemed film critic Todd McCarthy called ‘Circumcision’, “mind-boggling, riveting, and uncompromising. Grips you from the beginning and never lets go. I’ve never seen another film like it.” Director Phillip Noyce called it “brilliant, beautiful and original” and “a wonderfully inventive example of next-gen filmmaking”. Producer Ram Bergman (Knives Out, The Last Jedi) called it a “great film”.Producer Nikos Karamigios (American Fiction) called it “extremely personal and emotionally powerful, yet very funny as well.
Catch this truly incredible feature film at The Randwick Ritz on Monday 18th Nov at 6:30pm followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Tix – https://www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/circumcision
SF3 Feature Film Finalist, ‘Circumcision’ by US filmmaker, Yuri Zeltser will blow you away on the big screen. It looks like it was shot on a huge camera, not an iPhone 10. Filmed in first-person POV, it’s a tragicomedy about an agnostic man, whose life is completely falling apart (and whose face we never see), until he comes to believe that his pre-teen son is the Messiah, destined to save the world.

Our SF3 Kids Finalists are the best of the best!

Our SF3 Kids Finalists are the best of the best!

We are so proud of our SF3 Kids filmmakers. Right here are our future Oscar Winners and storytellers; these young filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of what is possible and inspiring us all…and this year our youngest filmmaker is just 6 years old!!! Come and be blown away by their talents at our SF3 Kids Screening on Sunday 17th November at 11am at the Palace Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington.
And here they are, our SF3 Kids Finalists for 2024:
1. Be Real by Kai Phoenix Munton
2. The Bumper Car in Shanghai by Alexis Truong
3. If Only by Indianna Thompson
4. Stalk by Aurora Iler
5. Super Normie by Eddie Cameron
6. The Positivity Project by Zac Deren
7. Déjà rêvé by Ella-Maree James
8. Charlie’s Crusade- A Tale of Courage and Cleanliness by Megan West & Students of the Jesmond Senior Campus Support Unit
9. Forward to the Past by James Dutton from The Hills Drama School
10. HitChip For Hire by Ajila Miller Gerbach
11. Pay It Forward by Tom Morfitt-White
12. Passing Forward by Riley Taylor from The Hills Drama School
13. A Novel Week by Waiaria (Aria) Macedone-Hunt
14. A Paper Planet by Frankie Macedone
15. No Laughing On Wednesdays by Sofiah Wiseman, Dan Wiseman, Rebekah Hampson & Mikayla Fabisiak from The Hills Drama School
16. Truth or dare by Deniz Gursoy
17. Something’s Wrong With Us by Isobel Sellers
18. Tunnel by Aston Di Donato
19. Slay Queen by The Junior Class at CentreStage Academy
20. I Knew a Boy Once by CentreStage Academy
21. Panther by The Senior Class at CentreStage Academy
22. Reignite by Kyla Vanderkley from Newtown High School of Performing Arts
23. HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Phoebe Sampson from Newtown High School of Performing Arts
24. The Confrontation by Nayan, Christian and Jack from Newtown High School of Performing Arts
25. The Hunt by Indianna Thompson and Ruby Harris from Newtown High School of Performing Arts
26. Bad Bushka (The day of the) by Indie Jones
27. Driving Away by Lucette Meisner
28. After Adam by Connor Tattersall
29. Whispers of Friendship by Lux Elizabeth Wolett
30. Johnny Jnr. by Lily Andrews
31. Mystery of the Keeper by Elina Myshanych
32. The Towel by Ella Grace Helton
33. Adult by Elina Myshanych