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Australian
Science Film
Wins Golden
Dragon Award
The
Electric Pictures
documentary
The Winner's
Guide to the
Nobel Prize
has won a prestigious
Golden Dragon
Award in the
Science Popularisation
category at
the 2006 Beijing
International
Scientific Films
Festival.
This one-hour
documentary
travels behind
the scenes of
the world's
most prestigious
prize for medicine
and physiology
with Western
Australian Nobel
Laureates Robin
Warren and Barry
Marshall.
The Beijing
International
Scientific Films
Festival is
held every two
years and is
the only government
sponsored science
film festival
in China, highly
regarded as
a key festival
by TV science
producers worldwide.
Golden Dragon
Awards are given
to the best
films in the
following areas:
Science Popularisation,
Science Feature,
Discovery, Environment,
Life Science
and Medicine,
and Science
for Youth.
According to
the judges,
“This
story has all
the right ingredients
for a winner.
Two interesting
characters,
Nobel Prize
winners. They
received their
prize for their
research that
Stomach Ulcers
have a bacterial
cause and can
be cured with
the right antibiotics.
They truly had
to fight the
medical establishment
and their persistence
is a great example
of the fact
that passion
and good science
go hand in hand.
The story is
very well told
with a special
eye for personal
details. The
Winners Guide
to the Nobel
Prize is a true
winner itself.”
The Winners'
Guide to the
Nobel Prize
is a Film Australia
and Electric
Pictures production
in association
with ScreenWest
and Lotterywest.
It was developed
and produced
in association
with the Australian
Broadcasting
Corporation
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Australia's Templeman
Nominated for
Oscar
Western
Australian director
Peter Templeman's
short film The
Saviour has been
nominated for
an Oscar in the
Live Action Short
Film category.
The 2007 Academy
Awards nomination
caps an exceptional
festival run for
the film, which
was written and
directed by Templeman
and produced by
Stuart Parkyn
in 2005 while
they were studying
at the Australian
Film Television
and Radio School
(AFTRS).
Returning to WA
in 2006, Templeman
directed several
episodes of the
SBS series Marx
and Venus and
was one of the
directors on the
children's series
Lockie Leonard,
both funded through
ScreenWest. Lockie
Leonard and Marx
and Venus are
both set to screen
this year.
The Saviour tells
the story of Malcolm,
a door-to-door
Mormon evangelist
who is in love
with a married
woman. With pressure
mounting from
his church to
convert her, Malcolm
decides his Bible
is the very weapon
he needs to destroy
the marriage that's
keeping him from
his true love.
Templeman's four
short films The
Saviour, Splintered,
Milkmen and Gifted
Thumbs have won
37 festival awards
between them,
including 15 Best
Films and six
Best Directors.
He is also the
only filmmaker
to win the Slamdance
Grand Jury award
for best short
film two years
in a row, first
with the gritty
drama Splintered
in 2005, then
in 2006 with The
Saviour.
Templeman's films
have screened
in more than 60
film festivals
around the world
and he recently
received the Atlab
Rising Talent
Award at the 2006
Inside Film Awards.
He is currently
working on two
feature film scripts.
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