St Kilda Film Festival is Australia

Australia

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's longest running short film festival and has been showcasing Australian short films since 1983. The festival, produced and presented by the city of Port Phillip

Port Phillip

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, screens Australian short films in all genre

Genre

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s including drama

Drama

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, comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

, documentary

Documentary

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, animation

Animation

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 and digital media.

The short film competition

Competition

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awards over $40,000 in cash and craft awards, including a $10,000 prize for Best Short Film.

Past winners

Award	2009	2008	2007
Best Short Film	Boundless	Katoomba
Craft Award	Miracle Fish	The Girl in the Moon
Best Director	Boundless	Katoomba
Best Documentary	The Love Market	My Dad Susan
Best Animation	Mutt	The Girl Who Swallowed Bees
Best Comedy	Being Carl Williams	Don't Panic!
Best Actor	Tom Green (The Ground Beneath)	Luke Elliot (Dugong) & Damon Herriman (Len's Love Story)
Cinematography	Directions	Crossbow
Screenplay	Kind of Man	Dugong
Editing	Shockwaves	Shadow Play
Visual Effects	Lone	Advantage
Sound Post Production	Ephemeral	Spike Up
Original Score	The Ground Beneath	Eclipse
Audience Award
Indigenous	One Shoe Short	Brother Boys