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Jan Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of LotteryWest, and Russell Woolf at the 22nd West Australian Screen Awards.

I was fortunate enough to attend the 22nd West Australian Screen Awards on Saturday night. Actually, my entrée to this glistering event was due to sweat rather than luck: I volunteered to be a runner on the day, in the hope that I could watch some of the ceremony while performing my duties.

So I ran errands in and out of the Octagon theatre, got soaked cleaning crusty 40-gallon drums that would be reborn as golden cocktail tables, and did some speed-typing on a Macbook (why is there no right mouse button, Apple? WHY?)

At the end of it all (including some exciting last-minute wrist-banding duties), I had a shiny WASA ticket (RRP $70, including two hours of quality booze and finger food) in my grubby little hand, and scrubbed up to watch the ceremony.

In the fracas before the show, I also got to meet Diana Warnock, a gracious and charmingly un-snobby lady, who would present the Bill Warnock Award to Meg Shields later that evening. She looked very glamorous in a black and purple ensemble that she said she had just “thrown together”. I can only pray that I will look that good in a few years.

Matt Lovkis and Ash Gibson-Greig opened and closed the show with slick musicality. I thought their closing number was a little risqué–it was a rousing tribute to all the people who didn’t win WASAs, but the audience were in good spirits, so all’s well that ends well.

You can read more about the 22nd West Australian Screen Awards at the FTI website, which also has a list of this year’s winners.

Shani (in the right hand pic) and I thought we’d practise our red carpet poses in the picture area. You know, for next year. (We can dream, can’t we?)