The Inside Film Awards (now known as the IF Awards) is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the

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, developed by the creators of Inside Film Magazine, Stephen Jenner and David Barda, and originally produced for television by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon. The awards are determined by a national audience poll, which differentiates it from the Australian

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, which are judged by industry professionals. The event is held in November each year, and is broadcast on

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and showtime movie channels. The IF Awards were first held in 1999, and until 2006 were also known as the Lexus Inside Film Awards, in recognition of its principal sponsor

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. Sponsorship since then has included multiple broadcast and event partners, with the new

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partner for 2011 being

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. In 2011, the Jameson IF Awards were held in November in Sydney again. As of 2012, the IF Awards have been 'on hold'.

2007 nominations

The IF Award for Best Feature Film *''

The Home Song Stories ''The Home Song Stories'' is a 2007 Australian drama film written and directed by Tony Ayres, loosely based on aspects of his life. It stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yuwu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker. The film premiered at the 57 ...

'' – directed by

Tony Ayres Tony Ayres (born 16 July 1961) is an Australian showrunner, screenwriter, director in television and feature film. He is most notable for his films '' Walking on Water'' and ''The Home Song Stories'', as well his work in television, including ...

and produced by Michael McMahon & Liz Watts *''

The Jammed ''The Jammed'' is a 2007 film written and directed by Dee McLachlan. The film is a story about human trafficking and the sex slave trade in Melbourne, and the search for three girls trapped by a trafficking syndicate. Court transcripts and actu ...

'' – directed by

Dee McLachlan Dee McLachlan (born Duncan McLachlan; 4 March 1951) is a film director, producer and writer from Middle Park, Victoria. Under her assigned name, McLachlan directed such films as ''Scavengers'', ''The Double 0 Kid'', '' Running Wild'', '' Deadly ...

and produced by Sally Ayre–Smith, Andrea Buck & Dee McLachlan *''

Lucky Miles ''Lucky Miles'' is a 2007 Australian drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Western Australia by boat in order to seek asylum. Its director was Michael James Rowland and its producers were Jo Dyer and Lesley D ...

'' – directed by

Michael James Rowland Michael James Rowland (born 15 January 1964) is an Australians, Australian film director. Early years Prior to his screen career, Rowland studied graphic design at the North Adelaide School of Art in South Australia and started his early worki ...

and produced by

Jo Dyer Jo Dyer (born 1969) is an Australian theatre and film producer, and director of Adelaide Writers' Week from 2019 to 2022. She is known for the films ''Lucky Miles'' (2007) and '' Girl Asleep'' (2015). In 2021 she was involved in a legal case re ...

& Lesley Dyer The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director *

– The Home Song Stories *

Matthew Saville Matthew Saville (born 1966) is an Australian television and film director, known for ''Noise (2007 Australian film), Noise'' (2007) and ''A Month of Sundays (2015 film), A Month of Sundays'' (2015). Early life and education Saville was born ...

– Noise *

Kriv Stenders Kriv Stenders is an Australian writer, producer and director best known for the film '' Red Dog'' and the thriller film ''Kill Me Three Times''. He started off directing music videos for many famous Australian bands, including Go Betweens, M ...

– Boxing Day The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor *

Brendan Cowell Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, playwright, and director. Early life and education Cowell was born in Sydney and grew up in the beachside suburb of Cronulla. He credits his mother and high school drama teacher with encouraging him to e ...

– Noise * Richard Green – Boxing Day *

Joel Lok Joel Lok (born September 6, 1994) is a Singaporean-Australian actor born in Singapore and based in Melbourne, starring in the recent Australian film in 2007, ''The Home Song Stories'', as the young character, Tom. Joel is the youngest actor to rec ...

– The Home Song Stories The In Style IF Award for Best Actress *

Brenda Blethyn Brenda Blethyn (''née'' Bottle; 20 February 1946) is an English actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and two Academy Award nominations. Blethyn ...

– Clubland *

Joan Chen Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American actress and film director. In China, she performed in the 1979 film and came to the attention of American audiences for her performance in the 1987 film ''The Last Emperor''. She is also ...

– The Home Song Stories *

Veronica Sywak Veronica Sywak is an Australian actress. She was born in Sydney, Australia. Biography Sywak's film career began to gain momentum in 2007 when she landed the lead role in the Australian film ''The Jammed'', for which she received an IF Award no ...

–The Jammed The Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography *The Home Song Stories – Nigel Bluck *The Jammed – Peter Falk *Lucky Miles – Geoff Burton, ASC. The IF Award for Best Music *The Home Song Stories – Antony Partos *The Jammed – Grant Innes McLachlan *

Noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference arise ...

–

Bryony Marks Bryony Marks is an Australian composer of film scores and theatre music, for which she has won several awards and been nominated for many others. Among her television credits is ''Please Like Me'' and ''Barracuda'', and films include '' Berlin S ...

The Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script *The Jammed – Dee McLachlan *The Home Song Stories – Tony Ayres *Lucky Miles – Michael James Rowland & Helen Barnes The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film *Crocodile Dreaming – Directed by Darlene Johnson & produced by Sue Milliken *Nana – Directed by Warwick Thornton & produced by Kath Shelper *Soul Mates – Directed by Naomi Rossdeutscher & produced by

Rachel Clements Trisha Morton-Thomas, also known as Patricia Morton-Thomas, is an Anmatyerr woman born in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is a writer, producer, director and actor who has worked in the Australian film industry since 1998 when she app ...

and Paul Howard The Lab Sydney IF Award for Best Short Animation *The Goat That Ate Time – Directed & produced by Lucinda Schreiber *Richard – Directed & produced by Mick Elliott *Sweet & Sour – Directed by Eddie White & produced by Sam White and The People's Republic of Animation The SBS IF Award for Best Short Documentary *Flour, Sugar, Tea – Directed by Lee Willis & produced by Gina Twyble *My Brother Vinnie – Directed by

Steven McGregor Steven McGregor is an Australian filmmaker, known for his work on ''Redfern Now'', ''Black Comedy'', '' Sweet Country'', and numerous documentaries, including ''My Brother Vinnie''. Early life and education McGregor grew up near the leprosariu ...

& produced by Sarah Bond *Nigger Lovers – Directed by Rhonda Hagan & produced by Daryl Sparkes & Stephen Hagan The IF Award for Best Documentary *

Bomb Harvest ''Bomb Harvest'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt and produced by Sylvia Wilczynski. It explores the consequences of war in Laos as it follows an Australian bomb disposal specialist, training locals in th ...

– Directed by Kim Mordaunt & produced by Sylvia Wilczynski *4 – Directed by Tim Slade & produced by Joanna Buggy *Unlikely Travellers – Directed by Michael Noonan & produced by Michael Noonan and John Hart The 3 IF Award for Best Music Video *God Told Me To – Directed by

Natasha Pincus Natasha Pincus is an Australian creative film maker. Pincus has created music videos for a number of Australian musicians, including Powderfinger, Paul Kelly, Gotye, Missy Higgins, The Paper Kites and Sarah Blasko. Pinctus created a major film w ...

. Artist: Paul Kelly *Heart's A Mess – Directed by Brendan Cook. Artist:

Gotye Wouter André "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980), better known by his stage name Gotye ( ), is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is a pronunciation respelling of "Gauthier", the French cognat ...

*I Thought About You – Directed by Kiku Ohe. Artist:

The Beautiful Girls The Beautiful Girls are an Australian roots music group founded in Sydney in 2001 by Mat McHugh, Clay MacDonald, and Mitchell Connelly. They have released three extended plays, '' Morning Sun'' (2002), ''Goodtimes'' (2002), and '' The Weight ...

The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design * Clubland – Nell Hanson *The Home Song Stories – Melinda Doring *Lucky Miles – Pete Baxter The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing *The Jammed – Anne Carter & Dee McLachlan *Lucky Miles – Henry Dangar, ASE *Noise – Geoff Hitchins The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound *Clubland – Liam Egan, Ian McLoughlin, Andrew Neil & Steven Jackson Vaughan *The Home Song Stories – Craig Carter, John Wilkinson, James Harvey & Andrew Neil *Noise – Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen & Philippe Decrausaz The Independent Spirit IF Award *Cross Life – Claire McCarthy *Searching 4 Sandeep – Poppy Stockell *Darling! The Pieter–Dirk Uys Story – Julian Shaw The Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent *Philippa Campey *

Bonnie Elliott Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That ...

*Ben Hackworth *Erin White ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay *The Adventures of Abigail Storm – Luke Preston *The Farm – Peter Dai Evans *Intersection – Robin de Crespigny

2008 nominees

(winners in each category are listed first, with nominees in alphabetical order following): SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film *

Men's Group ''Men's Group'' is a 2008 Australian drama film. The film is directed by Michael Joy from a screenplay co-written with John L. Simpson. Plot The film follows the lives of six men over a period of months as they convene weekly in a self-help s ...

- Michael Joy & John L. Simpson *The Black Balloon - Elissa Down & Tristram Miall *

Son of a Lion ''Son of a Lion'' is a 2007 Australian-Pakistani drama film set in Darra Adam Khel, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The film tells the story of Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), a Pashtun boy who wants to go to school instead of carryi ...

- Benjamin Gilmour & Carolyn Johnson Screen Australia IF Award for Best Director *PETER DUNCAN - Unfinished Sky *Elissa Down - The Black Balloon *Andrew Traucki & David Nerlich - Black Water Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor *GRANT DODWELL - Men's Group *Rhys Wakefield - The Black Balloon *William McInnes - Unfinished Sky IF Award for Best Actress *MONIC HENDRICKX - Unfinished Sky *

Gemma Ward Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian model and actress. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Ward was first scouted at the age of 14, and made her Australian Fashion Week debut aged 15. She later became the youngest model to appear on the cover of th ...

- The Black Balloon *

Maeve Dermody Maeve Dermody ( ; born 2 November 1985) is a UK-based Australian actress. After a film appearance at 5 years old, her adult acting career has included work in Australian and British television, theatre, short films, and movies. She characterises ...

- Black Water Screen Australia IF Award for Best Script *

- Michael Joy & John L. Simpson *The Black Balloon - Elissa Down & Jimmy The Exploder *Unfinished Sky - Peter Duncan Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography *JULES O'LOUGHLIN ACS - September *Denson Baker ACS - The Black Balloon *Robert Humphreys ACS - Unfinished Sky Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music *AMANDA BROWN - Son of a Lion *Michael Yezerski - The Black Balloon *Haydn Walker - Men's Group Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing *

SURESH AYYAR Suresh is an Indian masculine given name originating in the Sanskrit word ' (compound of ' and '). Its meaning is "Ruler of Gods" and it has been used an epithet for the Hindu gods Indra, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. People named Suresh include: *Su ...

- Unfinished Sky *Veronika Jenet ASE - The Black Balloon *Rodrigo Balart - Black Water The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design *LAURIE FAEN - Unfinished Sky *Nicholas McCallum - The Black Balloon *Sam Hobbs - September The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound *SAM PETTY, ROB MACKENZIE, YULIA AKERHOLT, PETER GRACE & MICHAEL MCMENOMY - The Square *Paul Pirola & Ben Osmo - The Black Balloon *Andrew Plain, Annie Breslin, Will Ward & John Scheifelbein - Unfinished Sky IF Award for Box Office Achievement *The Black Balloon SBS IF Award for Best Documentary *'' The Burning Season'' - Cathy Henkel (director/producer), Jeff Canin (producer) & Trish Lake (producer) *The Oasis -

Ian Darling Ian David Darling is a documentary film director and producer. He is the executive director of Shark Island Institute and its production arm, Shark Island Productions in Sydney, Australia. His documentary producer and director credits inc ...

(director/producer) & Sascha Ettinger Epstein (director) *Playing In The Shadows - Sascha Ettinger Epstein (director/producer) & Marco Ianniello (director/producer) St Arnou IF Award for Best Short Documentary * UNDRESSING VANESSA - Matthew Pond (director) & Tina Lymberis (producer) *Mad Morro - Kelrick Martin (director) & Tom Zubrycki (producer) *Rare Chicken Rescue - Randall Wood (director) & Vickie Gest (producer) Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film *fOUR - Erin White (director) & Zyra McAuliffe (producer) *Spider -

Nash Edgerton Nash Edgerton (born 19 January 1973) is an Australian film director, actor and stuntman, and a principal member of the movie-making collective Blue-Tongue Films. Early life Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and grew up in Dural ...

(director) & Nicole O'Donohue (producer) *You Better Watch Out - Steve Callen (director) & Jules Callen (producer) Autodesk IF Award for Best Short Animation *THE COVENANT OF MR KASCH - Joshua Beahan (director/producer) & Ruwan De Silva (director/producer) *Dog With Electric Collar - Steve Baker (director) & Damon Escott (producer) *Mutt - Glen Hunwick (director) & Beth Frey (producer) 3 mobile IF Award for Best Music Video *JUST A BOY BY ANGUS & JULIA STONE - Angus & Julia Stone (directors), Josh Groom (director), Andrew Yoole (director), Madeleine Milasas (producer) & Jodie Passmore (producer) *Emergency! Emergency! by The Hot Lies - Luke Eve (director) & Simon Ritch (producer) *If You Keep Losing Sleep by Silverchair - Stephen Lance (director), Damon Escott (director) & Leanne Tonkes (producer) ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay *MEMORIAL DAY -

Kieran Darcy-Smith Kieran Darcy-Smith is an Australian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring in the films '' The Cave'', '' The Square'', '' Animal Kingdom'', and '' The Reef''. He made his feature film directing debut with 2012 fil ...

*Get Black - Matthew C Vaughan *Red Light Revolution -

Sam Voutas Sam Voutas is an Australian actor and independent filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing '' Red Light Revolution'', China's "first sex shop comedy" which was nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the 2008 Australian Inside F ...

Efilm IF Award for Rising Talent *LEON FORD *Amy Gebhardt *Cris Jones Post Op Group IF Award for Independent Spirit *BENJAMIN GILMOUR & CAROLYN JOHNSON - Son of a Lion *Jason Byrne - Rats & Cats *Christopher Weekes - Bitter & Twisted V Australia IF Award for Living Legend *

Hugo Weaving Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six AACTA Awards, Australian Academy of Cinema and Tel ...

Inside Film magazine IF Award for Festival of the Year *

Flickerfest International Film Festival Flickerfest is an international short film festival held annually in January at Bondi Beach, Sydney. It is an Academy and BAFTA recognised short film festival for both international and Australian film makers. History The festival originated ...

Winners of the 2010 Kodak IF Awards

"The AUTODESK IF Award for Best Short Animation" *

The Lost Thing ''The Lost Thing'' is a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan that was also adapted into an Academy Award-winning animated short film. Plot Set in the near future, a dystopian Melbourne, Australia, ''The Lost Thing'' is a story abou ...

– Directors: Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann, Producer: Sophie Byrne The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film * Celestial Avenue – Directors: Colin & Cameron Cairnes, Producer: Scott Alexander The FACB IF Award for Best Short Documentary * From Dope to Dalai Lama – Director: Jason Raftopoulos, Producer: Jason Raftopoulos SBS Best Documentary IF Award * Strange Birds in Paradise – Director: Charlie Hill-Smith, Producer: Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry The

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IF Award for Best Music Video *"

Big Jet Plane "Big Jet Plane" is a song written by Australian singer and songwriter Angus Stone, originally recorded under the stage name "Lady of the Sunshine" for his 2009 album ''Smoking Gun''. It was then re-recorded the following year by Stone and his si ...

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Angus & Julia Stone Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian folk and indie pop group, formed in 2006 by brother and sister Angus and Julia Stone. Angus & Julia Stone have released five studio albums: ''A Book Like This'' (2007), '' Down the Way'' (2010), '' Angus ...

– Director: Kiku Ohe, Producer: Richard Halstead The AFTRS IF Award for Best Direction *'' Animal Kingdom'' –

David Michôd David Michôd ( ; born 30 November 1972) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed crime drama '' Animal Kingdom'' (2010) and dystopian drama '' The Rover'' (2014). ...

JAMESON IF Award for Best Script *''

Tomorrow, When the War Began ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'' is the first book in the ''Tomorrow'' series by John Marsden. It was published in 1993, and is a young adult invasion novel, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. Th ...

'' –

Stuart Beattie Stuart Beattie (born 4 August 1971) is an Australians, Australian filmmaker. His screenplay for ''Collateral (film), Collateral'' (2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original ...

Events NSW IF Award for Best Actor *'' Animal Kingdom'' –

Ben Mendelsohn Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his breakout role in ''The Year My Voice Broke'' (1987) and since then he has had roles in films such as '' Animal Kingdom'' (2010) ...

The IF Award for Best Actress *''

'' –

Caitlin Stasey Caitlin Jean Stasey (born 1 May 1990) is an Australian actress and singer. She is known for her role as Rachel Kinski in '' Neighbours''. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in ''The Sleepover Club'', although her breakthrough movie role cam ...

The SHOWTIME MOVIE CHANNELS IF Award for Best Feature Film *''

'' SA FILM IF Award for Best Sound *

Beneath Hill 60 ''Beneath Hill 60'' is a 2010 Australian war film directed by Jeremy Sims (credited as Jeremy Hartley Sims) and written by David Roach. Set during World War I, the film tells the story of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company's efforts in minin ...

– ROBERT SULLIVAN, LIAM EGAN, MARK CORNISH, TONY MURTAGH Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music *

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JOHNNY KLIMEK Johnny Klimek (born 18 August 1962) is an Australian musician, music producer, and composer, best known for his innovative work in the underground electronica music scene and for his film scores. Life and career Klimek was born in Melbourne, A ...

, REINHOLD HEIL CineAlta by Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography *

The Waiting City ''The Waiting City'' is a 2009 Australian film directed by Claire McCarthy. The film stars Joel Edgerton as Ben Simmons, Radha Mitchell as Fiona Simmons, Samrat Chakrabati as Krishna, and Isabel Lucas as Scarlett. The film's score was composed ...

– DENSON BAKER DYSON IF Award for Best Production Design * Bright Star –

Janet Patterson Janet Patterson (12 August 1956 – 21 October 2016) was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She won one BAFTA award and four Australian Film Institute awards, and was nominated for four Academy awards. Early life and educati ...

AVID IF Award for Best Editing *

–VERONIKA JENET National Film and Sound Archive Independent Spirit IF Award * Caught Inside – Directed by Adam Blaiklock, Produced by Paul S Friedman EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent *

Ariel Kleiman Ariel Kleiman (born 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director and filmmaker based in London. Biography Kleiman was born to a Jewish family in Melbourne, Australia; his parents emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in the 1970s. He graduate ...

The Media Super Out of the Box IF Award *

Ryan Corr Ryan Corr (born 15 January 1989) is an Australian actor. Corr is known for his roles in the Australian drama series ''Packed to the Rafters'' and '' Love Child'' along with film roles in ''Wolf Creek 2'' (2013), ''The Water Diviner'' (2014) and ' ...

Docklands Studios Melbourne IF Award for Contribution to TV *

Penny Chapman Penny Chapman is an Australian television producer. Her work includes the award-winning ''Brides of Christ,'' '' RAN Remote Area Nurse'' and ''My Place''. Penny received the Maura Fay Award for Services to the Industry at the 2013 Screen Produce ...

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