Australian films win Berlin plaudits
Stephanie Bunbury
February 23, 2010
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/film/articles/2010/02/22/1266687043307.htmlAN AUSTRALIAN short film about a cross-dressing boy who wins a holiday resort beauty competition won the Crystal Bear for best short film in the Berlin Film Festival's children's section, Generation K-plus. A jury of children described Hannah Hilliard's Franswa Sharl as ''non-stop fun ... for a moment we forgot the world around us''.
Over on the Berlinale Talent Campus that offers support to new filmmakers, Australian Bryn Chainey won the campus' award for the best short film with Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness. A jury of professional filmmakers praised the film, about a boy blasting away from his family in a home-made spaceship, for its ''truly creative inventiveness''.
