Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology film students and graduates have scored three out of the six nominations for the best tertiary film at this year\u2019s WA Screen Awards.<\/p>\n
Short films \u2014 Bedtime Stories, Mia and Chasing Rabbits<\/em> \u2014 are all in the running for the prestigious award which will be announced on Saturday 6 March at the Perth Concert Hall.<\/p>\n Curtin\u2019s Department of Film, TV and Screen Arts Head, Howard Worth, said he was pleased to see Curtin graduates being nominated for this award.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very proud of our 2010 nominations; this continues the history of Curtin students\u2019 success in the Awards. We wish them all continued success in the film industry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Bedtime Stories<\/em>, produced by graduate Christopher Nixon and directed by student Magnus Roervik, is a story about nine-year-old Lucy who creates a fairytale world to escape the harsh reality of life.<\/p>\n Mr Nixon, of Waterford, said the seven-and-a-half minute film took almost a whole year to produce.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the first narrative film I have produced and it has been a challenging, exciting and fantastic experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I enjoy most about film-making are the people that you have the privilege of working with including the talented and gifted individuals that act, design, edit, compose and support the project.\u201d<\/p>\n Director and writer of Mia<\/em>, Elyse Hickey of Mt Hawthorn who graduated in February, said the short film was about a girl\u2019s adventure that turns into a nightmare.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a few months writing this story and the film is very different to the original storyline. It\u2019s very exciting to see one of my story ideas being turned into a film,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe story is about a 10-year-old Mia who runs away to the circus with her best friend. On the way to the train station, however, her best friend is hit by the train and Mia blames herself.\u201d<\/p>\n Chasing Rabbits<\/em> is the story of Jack Costa, a young man whose world is shattered when he loses the girl of his dreams. The WA Screen Awards celebrates innovation and the achievements of WA filmmakers, from students through to established industry professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology film students and graduates have scored three out of the six nominations for the best tertiary film at this year\u2019s WA Screen Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17555","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe short film, directed by Adrian Pinto and produced by John Barker, both current students, is a gentle and emotional story that deals with love, grief and loss.<\/p>\n