AFI Awards announce non-feature nominees

The AFI has announced its nominees for the non-feature categories including best documentary, animated short and fiction short.

These are the nominees:

Best Feature Length Documentary

• Contact . Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
• Inside The Firestorm. Lucy Maclaren, Alex West
• The Snowman. Rachel Landers, Dylan Blowen
• Strange Birds In Paradise – A West Papuan Story. Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry

Three of the four nominees are featured in this Screen Australia video:

Best Short Animation

• The Lost Thing. Sophie Byrne, Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
• Zero. Christine Kezelos, Christopher Kezelos

Best Short Fiction Film

• Deeper Than Yesterday. Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler, Anna Kojevnikov, Ariel Kleiman
• The Kiss. Sonya Humphrey, Ashlee Page
• The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock. Lyn Norfor, Lucy Gaffy
• Suburbia. Richard Halsted, Antonio Oreña-Barlin

The short nominees will be available for all AFI members on AFI TV during the screenings period, starting late August – afi.org.au/afitv .

The rest of the categories will be announced in October.