Better get rolling!
Ningalens Film Competition is now done for 2018
Four years running and once again there were thousands of dollars up for grabs in prizes.
We will return bigger and better in 2019
Judging Criteria
Films will be privately judged by a panel of independent local dignitaries (scroll down to meet the judges) on the following elemental criteria:
Narrative (%50)/ Sound (%16)/ Editing (%16)/ Visuals (%18)
For every film, each judge’s score from each element is aggregated.
For example, Film ‘X’ could score for ‘Narrative’ from each judge:
Judge A) Narrative (34/50)
Judge B) Narrative (30/50)
Judge C) Narrative (37/50)
The total for ‘Narrative’ for Film ‘X’ is the aggregate of each judge’s score, 33.67.
This is repeated for Sound, Editing and Visuals, resulting in a total score (maximum score is 100).
NOTE: There is a more significant weighting for ‘Narrative’ as the competition encourages content that emphasises and rewards the cinematic art of storytelling.
The Wonders of World Heritage Category is to be awarded to the film that best creatively captures the wonder(s) of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area.
The Ningaloo Coast was included on the World Heritage list in recognition of its:
- aesthetically striking coastal and terrestrial environment of Ningaloo Reef adjacent to Cape Range.
- lush and colourful underwater scenery and its contrast with the arid and rugged land.
- annual aggregation of whale sharks, one of the largest in the world.
- important aggregations of other fish species and marine mammals.
- high marine diversity, including an unusual diversity of marine turtle species.
- rare and diverse subterranean creatures.
- diversity of reptiles and vascular plants in the drylands.
Categories – Prizes
Wonders of World Heritage – ADULTS – $1000
Awarded to the film that best creatively captures the wonder(s) of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area
Wonders of World Heritage – U/18 – $250
Awarded to the film that best creatively captures the wonder(s) of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area
Local Produce – ADULTS – $1250
Films must be shot on the Ningaloo, in between North West Cape and Red Bluff
Local Produce – U/18 – $250
Films must be shot on the Ningaloo, in between North West Cape and Red Bluff
Worldwide Appeal – ALL AGES – $1000
Open category to films shot anywhere in the world
For Worldwide Appeal only
TOTAL PRIZE POOL IS $3750
Additional cash prizes and prizes donated by local businesses are to be announced closer to the final submission date.
WOW THAT’S SOME SERIOUS PRIZES!
Previous Ningalens films
2015
SAMPARKA by Leon Evangelistis
2016
A SONG by Jo Lee Miller & Esther McDonald
DAZA’S STORY by Mim Strom
RECONNECT by Holly Winkle
TAKING OUT THE TRASH by Sadie James
SO MANY FLIES by Anton Blume
2017
SALT WATER MEDICINE by Asha Burkett
ATTENBOROUGH vs IRWIN by Tom Hiney
WHALE SHARK BLUES by Leith Holtzman
SANDANCE by Rose Annie Bennett & Jamie Lumsdaine
SEA TURTLES OF THE NINGALOO
WHAT DO I KNOW by Cynona Gordon
NO DIS-IN-ABILITY by Deb Fitzgerald & Darcie Watts
SHARKS OF THE NINGALOO by David Palfrey
PICTURE POSTCARDS by Sadie James:
LIVING BLACK AND WHITE by Sacha Guggenheimer
2018
HOME IS NOT A PLACE, IT IS A FEELING
by Aimee Jan
Wonders of World Heritage category
AS TIME GOES BY by Jake Parker
Local Produce – Adult category
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
– Stanley Kubrick