AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

  • Awards

    2023: Best Music for a Short Film at APRA AMCOS Screen Music Award; Avid Award for Best Original Music in an Australian Short Film for Mud Crab at Flickerfest; Best Original Score at St Kilda Film Festival; Best Original Score (National) at Canberra Short Film Festival

    2019: Second Place, Athenaeum Club Composition Competition for Moons We Live With

    2017: First Prize, R.M. Eggleston Literary Arts Competition for Green Room

    2016: First Prize & Emerging Composer Under 25 Award, Matt Withers Composition Competition for Between Tall Trees

    2014: Composition Scholarship, Wesley Music Centre

  • Film

    2023:
    Mud Crab - Official Selection for Flickerfest; Santa Barbara International Film Festival and St Kilda Film Festival. Winner of Best Music for a Short Film at the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards, Best Original Music in an Australian Short Film at Flickerfest 2023, Best Original Score at St Kilda Film Festival, Best Original Score at Canberra Short Film Festival.

    Kampong Spirit - Official Selection for Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

    2022:
    Mud Crab - Official Selection for Melbourne International Film Festival; Raindance Film Festival; Aesthetica Film Festival: winner of CILECT Asia-Pacific Association Prize for Best Fiction Film & 4th overall worldwide. Winner of Best Direction in a Student Film, Australian Director’s Guild Award.

    Sunset Country - Official Selection for St Kilda Film Festival; and Canberra Short Film Festival

    Beneath the Light - Official Selection for Byron Bay International Film Festival: Nominated for Best Experimental Film

    Death Doula - Official Selection for Stareable Fest LA; SeriesFest; LAWEBFEST; Catalyst Story Institute Film Festival; Student Selection for Melbourne WebFest: Nominated for Best Pilot and Best Student Series

    With the Cattle - Official Selection for Antenna Documentary Film Festival

    Sunnies - Official Selection for Flickerfest; Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia; Canberra Short Film Festival; and CinéfestOZ Film Festival: Finalist for Best Indigenous Short Film, winner for Best Screenwriter

    2021:
    Sunnies - Official Selection for Sydney Film Festival; and Co-Winner of CILECT Asia-Pacific Association Prize for Best Fiction Film

    Sunset Country - Official Selection for Melbourne International Film Festival; Schnit Worldwide Short Film Festival; and Poitiers Film Festival

    With the Cattle - Official Selection for Melbourne International Film Festival; Brisbane International Film Festival; Byron Bay Underground Film Festival; and Vegan Film Festival

  • Commissioned Works

    2018: Solo Piano: isimili for David Coates

    2016: Arrangement of Spanish Romance (Romance D'Amour) for guitar and orchestra for Matt Withers

    2015: SATB choir: Nunc Dimittis for the Wesley Uniting Church Choir

    2014: Music for Landscape Painting in Watercolour, a demonstration art DVD by Helen Fitzgerald