Awards

IN THE BIN 2008 Best Short DUGONG                                     Producer - Melanie Brunt Director- Erin White Best Short Runner Up PORQUE HAY COSAS QUE NUNCA Producer - Lucas Figueroa Director - LMF Films                                                         Best Short Sharp Shot PLASTIC Producer - Courtney Wise DOP- Greg De Marigny                              Bin Laughing JE TE LOVE Producer - Dave Wade Director- Richard Lacombe Writer - Dave Wade Collective Editing LOVES LABOUR Editor - Best Production Value FOUR Producer- Zyra McAuliffe Best Male Lead: DUGONG Luke Elliot Best Female Lead: DUGONG Sue Jones Best Cinematography  THE GRAFFITI OF MR TUPAIA DOP - Ginny Loane    Director:        SMALL CHANGE Director - Anna McGrath                       Best Film Script:      FAMILY MAN Writer - Hugh Sullivan    Best Sound Design      SPIDER Director - Nicole O'Donohue Producer - Nash Edgerton
Cart Orts                        Best Animation Film: LITTLE DINOSAURS Director - Dana Dorian Producer - Dana Dorian Kids Choice:  ANIMAL INSTINCT Director - Cameron Edser & Michael Richards Producer - Cameron Edser & Michael Richards
School Shorts Best School Short:                    Runner Up:
BOARDSHORTS Best Boardshort: SLAIN SHRED THE RAD Producer - Matt Hardman Director - M. Harman/ B.Hardman/T. Mullard Runner Up: BALANCE Producer - Paul Cotton Director - Paul Cotton

 AWARDS

 IN THE BIN 2007

Best Short
Still Life
Director- Tahnee McGuire
Producer- Sally Madgwick

Where The Magic Happens
Director- Ben Rutherford     Producer-Chris Aarons                
                                          
Best Short Sharp Shot
Hush                               Director- Dena Curtis
Producer- Kath Shelper

Bin Laughing
Car Pool
Martha Goddard

Collective Editing
Hush, Nana, Custard
Editor- Roland Gallois

Best Production Value
Cosette
Samantha Rebillet

Best Male Lead:
Adrift
Chris Haywood

Special Mention Male Lead
Where The Magic Happens
Ben Rutherford

Best Female Lead:
Songs for Running Away
Talia Zucker

Best Cinematography
Still Life  Callan Green  

Best Director:

Songs for Running Away
Jessica Leski

Best Film Script:  

Ascension Stephen Irwin

Cart Orts    

Best Animation Film:
Lapsus

Runner Up:
Norbert

Kids Choice:  Hip Hip Hurray

School Shorts
Best School Short:The Nerd

Runner Up:
Trapped at school

Board Shorts
Best Short Film:Cheelee Cheelee

Runner Up: Slain

WINNERS 2006

Best Short
Wobbegong
 Director- Owen Trevor
Producer- Lucas Jenner

Special Mention
Heads Up
Director- Dean Gunter

Best Documentary
The Man Who Wouldn’t Give Up
Director- Colin George Cosier
 Producer- Polly Harrison

Best Short Sharp Shot
Goggles
Director- Olivia Peniston- Bird
Producer- Rebecca Peniston- Bird

Bin Laughing
Richard
Mick Elliott

Editing
Stalled
Editor- Scott Alexander

Sound
Snow
Nick batterham

Animation
Richard
Mick Elliott

Male:
Stalled
Simon lyndon

Female
Danya
Maddi Newling

Cinematography
Fish out Of Water

Screen Play
Danya
Bety Armstrong

Director: The Deal
Director- Nigel Karikari

Cart-orts
Best Short Film:
Crocked Mick of the Speewath

Runner Up:
Tommy the Kid

School Shorts
Best Short Film:
Belonging 

Runner Up:
The Nutter

Board Shorts
Best Short Film:
Slain

Runner Up:
Luke’s Story

WINNERS 2005
Best Short Film
'Splintered' Peter Templeman

Best Doco
'Blandville' Tahnee McGuire

Encouragement Award
'Swimming to the Boy' Timber Dean

Bin Laughing Award
'Nursery Rhyme' Michael Demosthenous
Best Director
Peter Templeman 'Splintered'

Best Male Actor
Lindsay Farris 'Splintered'

Best Female Actor
Toni Murphy 'Gift Wrapped Girl'

Production Value
Carolyn O'Dwyer 'Italian Fare'

Screenplay
Arky Michael 'Australian Summer'

Cinematography
Jules O'Loughlin 'Gift Wrapped Girl'

Post Production (editing)
David Sellars 'Italian Fare'

WINNERS 2004

Best Short Film Deluge Flordeliz Bonifacid Best Animation After Dolly Mick Elliot Second Best Short Now The Bin Laughing Award Marco Solo Adrian Bosich Encouragement /Special Mention My Dad Victor Dean Ganter Cinematography Rendezvous Yen Ooi Best Male Joseph Sollena Marco Solo Best Female Kelly Walker Now Good Cuts Tim Wellburn Deluge Best Sound Marceistl Chropher Boyd Production Value Marco Solo Jo Ford Screenplay Highway Man Scott and Peter Hamilton Documentary No Selection

WINNERS 2003
Best Short Film
'Cane Toad' David Clayton and Andrew Silke

Animation
'Cane Toad' David Clayton and Andrew Silke

Documentary
'Son of Pickle Pete' Sean McPhillips and Andrew Hely

Bin Laughing
'Cane Toad' David Clayton and Andrew Silke

Special Mention
'Rose' Ryan O‚Connor

Screen Play
'Cane Toad' James Cowen

Director
'Lipstick'

Cinematography
'Groundsman'

Best Male Lead
'Lipstick' Ian Mc

Best Female Lead
'Mother of an Attitude'

Good Cuts
'Lipstick'

Best Sound
'Black Talk'

Production Values
'Groundsman' 

Second Best Short Film
'The Joint Effort' Daniel Decarli

Best Direction
'Blow' Marie Craven

Documentry
'The Atendant' Jan Reichle

Bin Laughing
'The Secret Life of Fish' Trent Roberts, Sean McPhillips and Andrew Hely

Good Cuts Award
'Wednesday'

The Premier Lighting Cinimatographer Award
'Back' Sam Toy

WINNERS 2001-2000

Best Short 2001
'Rain' Melanie Brunt

Best Short 2000
'The Sweeper' Julie Byrne
Second Best 2001
'Gravity'

Second Best 2000
'The Seed' Bruce Redman

Best Documentary 2001
'My Wave' Dale Paget

Best Documentary 2000
'The Peccadillo Prisoner'