Heart of Gold International Film Festival – Gympie

Award winners 2006 – 2010

2006

Best Short Film: Danya – Beth Armstrong

Best Australian Film:  Bloody Footy-  Dean Chircop

Best Quensland Film:  Luke’s Story –  Scott Corfield

Best Children’s Film:  Charlotte’s Red – Colin McIvor

Best Indigenous Film:  Bad Habits –  Jason Ramp

Best Cinematography:  Danya –  Beth Armstrong

Best Narrative Film:  Bloody Footy  – Dean Chircop

Best Comedy Film: Luke’s Story –  Scott Corfield

Best Animated Film: Crooked Mick of the Speewah –  Philip Smith

Best Documentary Film:  Mavis Loosie  – Craig

Best Foreign Film:  Baiano –  Elisabetta Bernardini

Most Inspiring Film:  Christmas Wish List –  Sean Overbeeke

Mayor’s Award Presented by Mayor Mick Vernados:  Solidarity –  Nancy Kiang

Festival Director’s Favourite Film:  Estranged –  Nicholas Bufalo

Audience Award – Best Film:  Bloody Footy –  Dean Chircop

2007

Best Short Film: Snakebite –  Matthew Pinder

Best Australian Film:  The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage –  Jennifer Ussi

Best Quensland Filmmaker:  Days Like These  – Martin Adams

Best Cinematography:  Droomtijd (Dreamtime) –  Tom Van Avermaet

Best Foreign Film:  Across the Hall  – Alan Powell

Best Animated Film: First Flight  – Cameron Hood

Best Comedy Film: Snakebite –  Matthew Pinder

Best Documentary Film: Cheat Neutral  – Beth Stratford

Best Narrative Film:  Validation –  Kurt Kuenne

Best Music Video:  Elbows –  Natalie van den Dungen

Best Children’s Film: The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage –  Jennifer Ussi

Best Indigenous Film:  Nana  – Warwick Thornton

Mayor;s Award Presented by Mayor Mick Vernados:  Walking Off  – Dan Stevenson

Festival Director’s Favourite Film:  Cold Tea –  Katie Bowen

Most Inspiring Film: Validation –  Kurt Kuenne

2009

Best Short Film:  New Boy –  Steph Green

Best Australian Film:  Triple Concerto in D Minor  – Daniel Mitchell

Best Australian Film:  Mankind is No Island  – Jason van Genderen

Best Queensland Film:  The Sound of Cry –  Lav Bodnaruk

Best Narrative Film:  New Boy –  Steph Green

Best Children’s Film:  Butterflies  – Andy Bailey

Best Child Made Film:  Poor Joshua Verde –  Guy Verge Wallace

Best Docmentary Film: Elegy for an Elswick Envoy  – Nancy Willis

Best Comedy Film:  Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty  – Nicky Phelan

Best Music Video:  Loir – I’ll Forget You –  Warwick Field

Best Animated Film: Mutt  – Glenn Hunwick

Best Cinematography:  Gone Fishing  – Chris Jones

Best Foreign Language Film:  Tanghi Argentini  – Guido Thys

Mayor’s Award Presented by Mayor Ron Dyne : A Triumphant Tale  – Scott Baskett

Festival Director’s Favourite Film:  Gone Fishing  – Chris Jones

Most Inspiring Film:  Historia de un Letrero (Story of A Sign)  – Alonso Alvarez Barreda

Bright Future Award:  In the Same Boat  – Emily Bissland

Best Photograph Award: David Hogan

Best Sudent Photograph: Connor Mackay

2010

Best Short Film:  The Light of Family Burnam-  Marshall Axani

Best Australian Film:  Aunty Maggie & the Womba Wakgun –  Bungabura Productions

Best Queensland Film: Glenn Owen Dodds –  Frazer Bailey

Best Student Film:  The Incredible Story of My Greatgrandmother Olive  – Alberto Rodriguez

Best Narrattive Film:  Open Your Eyes – Susan Cohen

Best Comedy Film: Careful with that Axe – Jason Stutter

Best Animated Film:  The Happy Duckling – Gili Dolev

Best Documentary Film: Wagah  – Surpiyo Sen

Most Inspiring Film:  Be My Brother – Genevieve Clay

Mayor’s Award Presented by Mayor Ron Dyne:  Father  – Sebastian Danta

2010 Best Australian Film: Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun