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AWARDS & JURY

Click on any of the following Awards for nominee, jury and general information!

Chauvel Award

Fipresci Award

Netpac

Interfaith

Lexus IF Awards

Chauvel Award
Each year BIFF acknowledges a distinguished contributor to Australian cinema through the Chauvel Award. The Award has been presented to Tony Buckley (2003), Jan Chapman (2002), Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (2001), Bryan Brown (2000), Bob Ellis (1999), Rolf de Heer (1998), Jon Seal (1997), Dr George Miller (1996), Gillian Armstrong (1995), Fred Schepisi (1994) and Paul Cox (1993).

Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) is proud to announce that the  recipient of this year's Chauvel Award is international star of the screen Geoffrey Rush. Mayor Campbell Newman, who will present the award this year, said 'Geoffrey Rush deserves praise not only for his incredible list of roles and awards, but most importantly for his ability to maintain both an international and local industry presence'. For details of this years presetation, click here For a backround into the Chauvel Award, click here For the full achievements of Geoffrey Rush, click here

The Chauvel Award Programme is proudly supported by:

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FIPRESCI Award
FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is the international federation of film critics, and has members in sixty countries. Founded in the late 1920s in France, Belgium, and Italy, FIPRESCI is represented at many of the major world film Festivals.

FIPRESCI's charter is to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema. FIPRESCI awards the International Film Critics Prize at a variety of international film Festivals. FIPRESCI's first jury prize was presented to David Lean's Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

The FCCA (Film Critics' Circle of Australia) is the national body of professional film critics, reviewers, and writers on cinema. As well as participating in various overseas FIPRESCI juries, the FCCA presents annual awards for Australian features, documentaries, and shorts.

Nominees for the FIPRESCI Award, for Asia-Pacific film, are:

Jury for the FIPRESCI Award:

	Caroline Vie-Toussaint is a critic for Brazil, a monthly French movie Magazine.  She's also a regular contributor to the American magazine Fangoria, and has been on the selection comitee for Cannes Critics Week for five years.  She has a deep interest in Asian Cinema and horror movies.
	Christine Cremen is a Sydney-based journalist, who has written about film and television for over 20 years. She is currently a regular contributor to The Australian newspaper's Review .
	Tim Milfull is a freelance writer and film critic based in Brisbane.

Philip Cheah is the Festival Director of the Singapore International Film Festival and the editor of BigO, a pop culture weekly.  He is on the advisory board of Cinemaya, the Asian Film Critics Quarterly, and a Board Member of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.  Right now, his favourite band is Spring Hill Jack.

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NETPAC

The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema

NETPAC (the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) takes as one of its aims the promotion of Asian cinema's role in the development of cultural diversity and integrity in the face of late-twentieth-century globalisation. It involves filmmakers, critics, Festivals, programmers, distributors, exhibitors, and film educators.

One of the ways of promoting Asian cinema is through the presentation of the NETPAC Award at film Festivals. The Brisbane International Film Festival is proud to host the NETPAC Award in Australia.

Nominees for the NETPAC Award, are:

Jury for the NETPAC Award, are:

	Jeannette Paulson Hereniko   was the founding director of the Hawai`i International Film Festival (1980-1996) and the first director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (1989-1991). She has programmed many Asia and Pacific films, national film tours as well as art theatres and universities, such as the National Gallery of Arts in Washington D.C., and the Film Forum in New York City.  Her Master of Arts was a thesis on the reception of Japanese feature-films in the United States.  Currently she is the President of the United States chapter of NETPAC. the Director of the Asia Pacific Media Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication in Los Angeles; and President of Makai Motion Pictures and Te Maka Productions in Honolulu. She recently produced The Land Has Eyes, which is screening at BIFF.
	Solrun Hoaas was born in Norway and grew up in Kobe, Japan.  She studied theatre at Kyoto University and completed a Masters in Asian Studies at Australian National University, then began filmin in Okinawa in 1978.  Her films inclde Sacred Vandals, Green Tea and Cherry Ripe, Aya (CICAE Award 1990) and documentaries Pyongyang Diaries and Rushing to Sunshine.  She now writes in Melboure.
	Philip Cheah is the Festival Director of the Singapore International Film Festival and the editor of BigO, a pop culture weekly.  He is on the advisory board of Cinemaya, the Asian Film Critics Quarterly, and a Board Member of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.  Right now, his favourite band is Spring Hill Jack.

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Interfaith
Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values

Inspiration for the first BIFF Interfaith Award in 2003 was drawn from the first Interfaith Jury convened at the 2003 Tehran Film Festival by SIGNIS representative Petre Malone. SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, organised ecumenical juries to judge films on criteria that take into account the films’ artistic, qualities and the human, social and spiritual values that they express.

Nominees for the Interfaith Award, are:

Jury for the Interfaith Awards, are:

	Sekhar Das holds a Master in Arts, and has written for television soaps and thrillers. He has directed 30 short films for television, made several documentaries on traditional performing arts, and has also acted in Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen films. Songs of Mahulbani is his début feature film.
	Dr Richard Leonard SJ is a Jesuit Priest and Director of the Australian Catholic Film Office.  A graduate of the London Film School, Richard is a film critic for several major Catholic newspapers in Australia and recently completed a PhD in cinema studies at the University of Melbourne.  In 2003 he was a visiting scholar within the School of Theatre, Film & Telvision at UCLA, and lectures on film and theology at the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne.
	Delmae Barton is widely recognized as Australia's Dreamtime Opera Diva and traditional Wailer. Delmae is also a song writer, composer and poet who has written many songs and poetry works for prestigious occasions, such as Naturalization ceremonies from 1986 to 1999 as well as working with school children developing compositional skills.

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Lexus IF Awards Love it? Hate it? Rate it!
As an accredited film Festival, Australian films screened at BIFF are in the running for the Lexus IF Awards.

The Lexus IF Awards, presented by Inside Film (or IF) magazine and Lexus, are the people's choice awards for Australian films. Begun in 1999, the Awards exist to let Australian filmmakers know what local audiences think of their films. We want to know your opinion of each and every Australian film you've seen this year, so love it or hate it, rate it! By doing so, you help to determine the winners at this year's Lexus IF Awards.

Click on this link www.ifawards.com then click on 'Rate a Film' to rate the Australian films screened at BIFF. Rate films from one ('gimme a refund') to 5 ('standing ovation'). Winners are then determined by the overall average audience score.

Have your say about the quality and impact of the Australian films you have seen.

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