Australian Directors Guild Awards 2008

Entries are closed for this year’s Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Awards, with winners to be announced at a star-studded ceremony in Sydney on 27 September, sponsored by Screenrights.

The awards, which are the only peer-assessed awards celebrating the best directing talent in film, television, TVC, animation and music video, will be presented as part of the ADG National Directors Conference.

In 2007 over 100 applicants entered the inaugural ADG Directors Awards, with filmmaker Kriv Stenders (The Illustrated Family Doctor, Blacktown) awarded the inaugural Directors Finders Series Award for his low-budget independent feature film Boxing Day. Other award winners in 2007 included Matthew Saville (Noise) for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film, David Bradbury (Raul The Terrible) for Best Direction in a Documentary and Julius Avery (End of Town) for Best Direction in a Student Short Film.

For more information about the ADG conference and awards, visit www.adg.org.au