EVANGELINE THAN

Another year, another red dress, another swag of awards for exciting new (and old) talent in the West Australian filmmaking community!

Once again, your friendly neighbourhood Russell Woolf from ABC 720′s Drive program presided as MC over this year’s WA Screen Awards, held at the Perth Concert Hall on Saturday the 6th of March.

I attended the WASAs with Tanya Beeson from Junglecat Films, who was there to represent the team of My Extraordinary Little Sister, an animated short film created as part of the Nick Shorts initiative, a joint production partnership between Nickelodeon Australia, ScreenWest and the Film & Television Institute WA Inc.

We held our breaths as the nominations for Best Short Animation were read out. And the winner was …

… not us, but the next best thing, our very good friends, animators Jesse Emmerson and Gaetan Raspanti. Congratulations to Jesse, Gaetan, and their producer, Bridget Curran, for Hairoes!

Tanya Beeson and this blog’s author drowning their sorrows (not really) at the drinks afterwards.

Friends and graduates of FTI’s 2009 Diploma of Screen & Media – Digital Production course: Stephen Phillips, Aaron Dowson, and Seb Baltyn.

Kate Beaton’s “Hark! A Vagrant” comics are smart and funny. Quite often they are educational. Sometimes, too educational, like this one, which made me curious enough to search for stuff on the Internet, and then mad that the Internet was so good at letting people search for stuff. WHY, JAMES JOYCE, WHY?

Image used with permission (thanks, Kate!)