Robin Anderson Student Film Awards

Winner of the Best Super Short Film at the 2008 Robin Anderson Student Film Awards

• 2008 Awards Winners
• Sponsorship

The inaugural Robin Anderson Film Awards Festival in 2003 was the result of the generous donations from friends, family, members of the film industry and the public that flooded in to MLC School at the time of Robin Anderson's death in 2002. MLC School is the custodian of the Robin Anderson Fund as Robin and Bob Connolly's two daughters attend MLC.

Instead of a memorial scholarship in Robin's memory, MLC decided in favour of an annual competitive film festival for students. The decision was founded in the belief that Robin would have wanted to be a part of an initiative that promoted and encouraged young filmmakers and offered them industry based assistance and prizes.

The Robin Anderson Film Awards Festival has attracted the sponsorship and support of Film Australia, The Australian Film, Radio and Television School (AFTRS), ABC Television, Sony, State Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Sydney Film School, Animal Logic, PowerMedia and Art Business.

In 2003 nine schools entered over thirty films in the first competition and the films nominated for awards were screened at a packed Valhalla Cinema on the 14 November, 2003. Mr Dick Smith presented the Robin Anderson Trophy for the Best Film to Tim Doldissen of Ashfield Boy's High School for his film Just Another.

Since 2006, the Robin Anderson Film Awards have been a national competition.

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• The Robin Anderson Prize - overall prize for best film, judged from all works submitted in both the junior and senior sections.
• Best Fiction Film - Junior Category
• Best Non-Fiction Film - Junior Category
• Best Super Short Film - Open Category
• Best Fiction Film - Senior Category
• Best Non-Fiction Film - Senior Category
• Best Digital Animation - Open Category

CRAFT PRIZES

• Best Cinematography - Open
• Best Direction - Open
• Best Actor - Open
• Best Script - Open
• Best Sound / Composition - Open
• Best Film Editing - Open

You can find out more about the 2009 Robin Anderson Film Awards Festival at www.robinanderson.org.au and how you can take part in this Community Filmmakers' Program for High School Students or by contacting Craig Malyon
Head of Visual Arts, MLC School on 02 9747 1266 or by email cmalyon@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au

2008 Robin Anderson Film Award recipients from Lithgow High School

Important Dates for 2009 Awards:

2008 Awards Winners

Sponsorship of the Robin Anderson Film Awards

MLC School would like to acknowledge the continued financial support of the Robin Anderson Film Awards and would also like to thank other sponsors which include:

• The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS)
• Australian Directors' Guild
• Dendy Cinema
• Screen Australia
• Sibelius
• Spectrum Films
• Foxtel
• Art Gallery of NSW
• Michael Gray Fine Art
• Sydney Film School

Without their support, encouraging young Australians still at school towards creative excellence in filmmaking through the Robin Anderson Awards, would not continue to be possible.  If you would like to be involved in these awards as a sponsor, enquiries can be directed via email to Mr Craig Malyon on call, 9747 1266.

Past Winners of The Robin Anderson Trophy for Best Film