Sony has announced the finalists for the fourth annual Catchlight Film Festival, which celebrates the best short-form filmmaking shot on Sony cameras across Australia and New Zealand.
Winners of this year’s Catchlight Film Festival will be announced on Saturday 28 September at the 2024 Catchlight Film Festival awards ceremony in Sydney, hosted by Sony Australia. The Catchlight Film Festival includes five categories – Fiction (scripted), Non-Fiction (documentary), Student Fiction, Music Video, and 2024 sees the debut of the “Cinematic Social” category, designed to recognise striking and beautiful work created specifically for the small screen. This year’s finalists are as follows:
Fiction:
Die Bully Die – Nathan Lacey,
For Joan – Micaela Osfield,
Jia – Nicholson Ren,
The Balloon – Fink-Jensen James,
WOLF – Ali Kadhim
Non-Fiction:
DAD – Jones Riley Eli,
Making Revisions – Matt Deavin,
Chasing The Breeze – Malin Noah,
I AM A SKATEBOARDER – Jack Coghlan,
Debut – Hitchens Peta
Music Video:
Queen of Sin – Cameron Zayec,
Bindi in the Dirt – Nick Sullivan,
Final Resort – Bronson Moyle,
Lies – Jon Copson,
The Choice – Tristan Solar-young
Student Fiction:
The Great South – Ormsby Taniora,
Stonewall – Lily Lunder,
The Meat it Feeds On – Sidney Fenton,
Period Party – Georgia Brogan,
Places, Please! – Paul Rye
Cinematic Social:
Japan – Lost – Elliott Sauvage,
Wanderlust Bali: The Land of Enchantment – Yichong Xiao,
Vivid Sydney 2023 Flow Motion Hyperlapse – Filippo Rivetti,
Ground – Maharaj Krish,
Found in Japan – Julian Ortiz
To view the finalists’ films please visit – https://filmfestival.sony.com.au/.
