Nicholas Clifford’s We’ve All Been There wins Tropfest 2013
A short film about kindness titled We’ve All Been There won Australia’s Tropfest last night.
Film-maker Nicholas Clifford won the prize from a shortlist of 16 films screened across numerous live sites and on SBS.
The film looks at shared kindness with a young waitress in need of kindness receives it from someone who experienced it themselves.
Clifford’s prizes included a car, cash, meetings with film executives in LA and a Nikon D800 camera with lenses.
Clifford was a finalist last year with his film Kitchen Sink Drama.
The lead actress in We’ve All Been There, Laura Wheelright won Best Actress on the night.
Best actor went to Nick Hamilton of Time, which was about a boy who seeks time travel.
Second prize went to Jefferson Grainger’s documentary Better Than Sinatra about a pensioner who busks by dancing around the Sydney CBD. The pensioner, Raymond Borzelli also received an impromptu Best Personality in a Documentary award of $3000 from the judges including Sam Worthington.
Third prize went to Nick Baker and Tristan Klein for their animation Punctured, about a man who’s job it is to puncture balloons set in a dystopian world.
Festival director John Polson also announced the film festival would next take place in December of this year in Centennial Park in Sydney instead of The Domain.
The Tropfest Signature Item, an item which must appear in all Tropfest films to make sure its production is specifically for the festival, will in December be ‘change’.
Lovely story. Beautifully made. A wonderful reminder to us all of how much better life is when we just take the time to do good things. Congrats to all concerned.
While the camera work for the first half of this short was incredible. I implore people to look at the music video on Youtube ‘The Chain Of Love’ by Clay Walker. It depicts the EXACT same story as this short. Now, the short did give credit to a ‘short story’ that it was based on. A lot of the time these shorts are judged on what unique ideas and compelling bites of life they depict, it’s always a bit disheartening to learn the material isn’t original. That doesn’t detract from the skilled film making here – but please be aware that the touching story was TOTALLY lifted.