Award winners

Award winners 1998–2000: Documentaries

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Awards won by Australian documentaries (titles ‘H’) 1998–2000

Title

Event

Awards

Height of Passion

Chicago International Television Competition (March 2000)

Silver Plaque, Network Promo Section

Hephzibah

Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival (November 1998)

Silver Wolf – First Prize Award, Video Competition Section

Australian Film Institute Awards (November 1999)

Film Australia Award for Best Documentary – Curtis Levy
FRAMEWORKS Award for Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film (shared) – Veronika Jenet

Film Critics' Circle of Australia (February 1998)

Best Australian Documentary

Melbourne International Film Festival (July 1998)

Second Most Popular Australian Documentary

Sydney Film Festival (June 1998)

Most Popular Australian Documentary

Here Comes the Judge

Western Australian Screen Awards (July 1999)

Cinesure Award for Editing – Peter Pritchard, Open Craft Section

Hidden in the Wind

Australian Teachers of Media Awards (May 1998)

Best Tertiary Student Documentary – Carmela Baranowska

Hipsi the Forest Gardener

Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards – Victoria/ Tasmania (October 1998)

Silver – Peter Nearhos, Wildlife and Nature films Section

International Wildlife Film Festival (May 1999)

Best of Category (shared), Independent Section
Merit Award for Photography
Merit Award for Soundmix
Merit Award for Editing

Home of the Blizzard

Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards – South Australia/ Western Australia (November 1998)

Gold – Malcolm Ludgate, Documentaries, Cinema and Television Section
Gold – Malcolm Ludgate, Judges Award for Best Entry Section

International Festival of Maritime and Exploration Film (October 1999)

Prix de la Marine Nationale

Home Page

WA Film and Video Festival (August 2000)

Best Animation and New Media

Human Journey, The

Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards – NSW/ACT (November 1999)

Gold – Pieter de Vries, Documentaries Section

Australian Cinematographers Society Awards (National) (May 2000)

Award of Distinction – Pieter de Vries, Documentaries, Cinema and Television Section

Australian Teachers of Media Awards (May 2000)

Best Secondary Student Educational Resource (film) – Andrew Waterworth and Roger Scholes

Hutan: Wildlife of the Malaysian Rain Forest

New York Festivals (January 1999)

Silver Award Medal

Western Australian Screen Awards (July 1999)

Discovery Channel Award for Cinematography – Mitchell Kelly and Ian Pugsley

Source: Australian Film Commission
Notes: This list has been compiled from ongoing monitoring of awards by AFC staff and from information provided to the AFC by filmmakers. Although great effort has been made to locate information, there may be a small number of awards omitted from the list.
As the list covers only calendar years 1998–2000 it may not represent all awards won by a particular film.

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