Juries and Awards

Chauvel Award

Kinetone Award

Awards and Jury

Chauvel Award

This year the 2008 Chauvel Award goes to Heath Ledger for his outstanding and significant contribution to Australian Cinema.

Kinetone Award 2008

For significant contribution to the Queensland film industry

The Kinetone Award is voted both by industry peers and the public. Each year the nominations reflect the generosity and commitment of the industry's established professionals. Previous recipients have supported the industry through many avenues, including education, training, mentorship, and network development.

In 2008, the recipient of the Kinetone Award is Gary Keir. Gary's long history with film processing laboratory Atlab has seen him involved in many productions, from feature films to television commercials, since 1977. Gary opened Atlab Queensland as manager in 1991 and has since become a figurehead in the state's film and television industry.

His extensive involvement in the emerging local industry-for example, the establishment of the Kodak TVC Competition in 2001, festival sponsorships, participation in industry groups and panels, and avid support of the annual Warner Roadshow Studios Queensland New Filmmakers Awards-clearly demonstrates Gary's unswerving commitment.

For many years, Gary has selflessly devoted himself to mentoring newcomers, passing on to them his boundless/contagious enthusiasm and technological knowledge, and in 2000 the Australian Cinematographers Society recognised Gary's service to the industry with the Edwin Scragg Award.

Gary is highly respected by his peers and revered among filmmakers across the state. He has been instrumental in building Queensland's film industry-without people like Gary, Queensland would lack the sense of family, tradition, and close-knit support that currently enriches this creative industry.

The Kinetone Award will be presented to Gary Keir in a special event during the festival.

Previous Kinetone Award recipients

1998 Bob Blasdall, THEpostWORKS

1999 Leigh Christensen, Kodak Australia

2000 Dick Marks, Australian Film Company

2001 Max Bannah, founder of Queensland Animators Group

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FIPRESCI

Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique

Founded in the late 1920s in France, Belgium, and Italy, FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is the international federation of film critics, whose members reside in 60 countries and which is represented at many of the major international film festivals.

FIPRESCI's charter is to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema. Its first jury prize was presented at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival to David Lean's Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique. FIPRESCI awards the prestigious International Film Critics Prize at film festivals around the world.

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

Bodo Fründt is a German film journalist who has worked for print media, radio, and television since 1968 and has published, written, and translated books on the subject of film, including Alfred Hitchcock und Seine Filme and Leni Riefenstahl und Ihre Filme. He currently works with the Munich Film Festival.

Internationally acclaimed film critic Adrian Martin is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and is a regular contributor to Film Quarterly, De Filmkrant and Cahiers du cinéma España. He has written books including What is Modern Cinema?, Raúl Ruiz: Magnificent Obsessions, and Once Upon a Time in America and is co-editor of the online journal Rouge.

Deb Verhoeven is a writer, broadcaster, film critic, commentator, and lecturer. She is currently Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University, where she also manages the AFI Research Collection. She is also Deputy Chair of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Between 2000 and 2002, Verhoeven was CEO of the Australian Film Institute.

NETPAC

The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema

NETPAC (The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) is an international organisation that comprises filmmakers, critics, festivals, programmers, distributors, exhibitors, and film educators. Its fundamental aim is to promote Asian cinema's role in the development of cultural diversity and integrity in a contemporary, globalised world.

One of the ways of promoting Asian cinema is through the presentation of the NETPAC Award, which recognises exceptional and emerging filmmaking talents, at film festivals. The Brisbane International Film Festival is proud to host this award in Australia.

Nominees for the NETPAC Award for Asian Cinema are:

Jung Soo-wan received her PhD in film studies from Dongguk University, South Korea and Waseda University, Japan. She has worked with the Jeonju International Film Festival since its inception and is currently the festival's Program Director. In addition to teaching film studies at Dongguk University, Jung is a member of FIPRESCI and the Korean Film Critics' Association.

Jackie McKimmie is the writer-director of the award-winning shorts Stations and No Problems and the feature films Australian Dream, Waiting, and Gino. She is currently the director of SP*RK, the Australian Film Commission's national script workshop, and is also Screen Australia's Project Manager in the Brisbane office. She has been awarded the Centenary Medal for services to the Queensland film industry.

Ying Liang studied film at Beijing Normal University and earned a Bachelor's degree in directing from Chongqing Film Academy. Since 1999 he has directed numerous short films including Gold Coin of Heaven and The Missing House, and he made his feature début with Taking Father Home in 2005, which was met with international acclaim. Liang's third feature, Good Cats, had its recent world première at Karlovy Vary.

Interfaith

Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values

BIFF's Interfaith Award was inspired by the first Interfaith jury, convened at the 2003 Tehran Film Festival by SIGNIS president Father Peter Malone. SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, organises ecumenical juries to judge films on criteria that take into account artistic qualities as well as human, social, and spiritual dimensions.

Now in its fifth year, BIFF's Interfaith jury, comprising three jurors from diverse religious and/or spiritual backgrounds, will present the award to the film that most successfully espouses humanitarian values.

Nominees for the BIFF Interfaith Award are:

Formerly Dean of Students and Studies at Newman College, University of Melbourne, Jenny McMillan wrote her master's thesis on the deconstruction of the cartoon text. Between 1990 and 2002, she taught at Geelong Grammar School. She is currently a film reviewer for Catholic Communications.

Halim Rane has a Bachelor's degree in sociology and Islamic studies, a Master's in media studies, and a PhD in international relations. Rane is currently a lecturer in the National Centre of Excellence in Islamic Studies and is the programme convenor for the Bachelor of Arts major in Islamic studies at Griffith University.

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, D. Phil. (Oxford), is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in linguistics at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History of the University of Queensland. He has been a Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and has taught in Israel, Singapore, England, and the United States.

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