Entries are now open for the 2014 IPAF ATOM Awards!
We are calling for entries in more than thirty diverse categories of film, television, animation, educational resources, games and multimedia.
Open to all screen content producers across Australia and New Zealand, as well as students in primary, secondary and tertiary (or equivalent) education, there is a category for everyone.
For over thirty years, the ATOM Awards have celebrated the best screen content from our region. This year’s winners included Shark Island Productions (for their outstanding feature documentary Paul Kelly – Stories of Me), Network Ten (for the children’s television program Scope) and Big hART (for NEOMAD, an interactive digital comic and game).
This year, we are proud to introduce three new international animation categories for primary and secondary students. Through this initiative, we look forward to engaging with larger audiences and establishing relationships with the next generation of international screen producers.
Jen Farrow, ATOM Awards Officer, said:
With the success of the 2013 IPAF ATOM Awards, we are seeing ever-increasing exposure for our finalists and winners. From now on, two finalist productions from the preceding year are selected for screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). The ATOM Awards offer great opportunities for budding screen content producers to engage with larger audiences, and to network with industry professionals.
We create a unique page for each finalist production on the ATOM Awards website, and run a number of Audience Choice competitions for selected student award categories throughout the following year.
Many productions from this year’s awards – including all the primary and secondary student finalists –can be streamed online now at www.atomawards.org. (Those that cannot be streamed in full have either a trailer or a gallery of still images.)
These annual awards now feature two distinct ceremonies: the Student Awards Evening, which includes the primary and secondary student categories, and the Tertiary & Industry Awards Night. The latter includes several tertiary-specific categories, plus all of our general categories, which are open to all media producers, from individuals and indie upstarts to established screen production companies and industry stalwarts.
The Tertiary & Industry Awards Night presents a great opportunity for emerging directors, producers, cinematographers, sound designers, composers, animators, and game and new media producers to mingle with the cream of the Australian and New Zealand screen industries.
This year’s event was hosted by RocKwiz’s Brian Nankervis and attended by media industry professionals from the ABC, SBS and the ACTF. Also in attendance were representatives from most of Australia’s screen funding bodies and a number of veteran documentary-makers.
As a not-for-profit organisation, ATOM would be unable to offer such an extensive awards program without the support of our sponsors. We would like to thank the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF), which is on board again in 2014 as naming sponsor –as well as Film Victoria and Swinburne University of Technology, who have also confirmed their support for us next year.
To learn more about the 2014 IPAF ATOM Awards, or to enter your production(s) online, please visit our website at www.atomawards.org.
Media Enquiries
Jen Farrow
ATOM Awards Officer
Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM)
Ph: +61 3 9525 5302
M: +61 468 523 145
Fax: +61 3 9537 2325
