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Cinesnaps Winners
Student Short Film Competition
2023 Winners
The 2023 Cinesnaps Short Film Competition winners have been announced for 2023″s theme The Switch.
Margaret River Senior High School duo Joshua Yates and Seth Weadley topped a swag of film students from across the South West, Great Southern, Geraldton & The Kimberley Regions in the 10-12 category. Great Southern Grammar students Maxwell Cruse, Finn Thomas, Thomas North & Menari Deegan brought home the winning prize for the Year 7-9 category.
Runner-ups for the year 7-9 and 10-12 categories respectively were Great Southern Grammar student Edward Baker and Cape Naturaliste College students Aysiah Uren, Jordan Lay, Nell Davenport & Dieter Spurgeon.
Year 10-12 Winner: Joshua Yates and Seth Weadley (Margaret River Senior High School) with The Switch
Year 10 -12 Runner-up: Aysiah Uren, Jordan Lay, Nell Davenport and Dieter Spurgeon (Cape Naturaliste College) with Switched
Year 7-9 Winners: Maxwell Cruse, Finn Thomas, Thomas North & Menari Deegan with
Year 7-9 Runner-up: Edward Baker with Noah’s Banana Boat
Other Finalists
Callum Synnot with Butchers Track
Kobe Thomas, Ethan Tomlinson, Jonathan Barry & Yuuta Sumitomo with Fake Friends
Chloe Francis with One Lucky Citizen
Colin Ferreira with Reality’s Edge
Winner Yr 10-12 Joshua Yates and Seth Weadley, with MahVeen Shahraki (Jury), Ron Mutambiranwa (Rio Tinto), Myles Pollard (Jury Chair) and Eddie Baroo (Jury)
Runner Ups Yr 10-12 Aysiah Uren, Nell Davenport, Jordan Lay and Dieter Spurgeon with Ron Mutambiranwa (Rio Tinto).
2022 Winners
Year 10-12 Winner: Henry Baker (Great Southern Grammar) with Lemon and the Pelicans
Year 10 -12 Runner-up: Joshua Yates, Seth Weadley and Asher Muir (Margaret River Senior High School) with Alone
Year 7-9 Winner: Colin Ferreira with Mars… Maybe Not
Year 7-9 Runner-up: Edward Baker, Maxwell Cruse and Thomas North with W_FILES
Other Finalists
Cooper Williams with Aversion
Declan Fahie with The Comical Conquests of Captain Cardboard
Ava Evans, Matilda Cole, Katelyn Bunn, Madi Macartney, Emily Erdmann, and Sophie Anderson with Ruminate
2021 Winners
2021 year 10-12 Winner: Aiden Gillett and Jake Holland with their film Treasure Heist
2021 year 7-9 Winner: Jorja Plant, Chloe Basten, Brooklyn Kiddie, Ty Guretti, Liam Thomas and Neve Mullinger with their short film Treasure
2021 Runner Ups: Year 10-12 student Josh Clark with his film One Man’s Trash, and year 7-9 students Jordyn Brown and Kaila Byrne with their film My Treasure
Other Finalists for Yr 10-12 were Mia Swanepoel – The Treasure of Courage | Henry Baker and Edward Baker – Pillow Dude and the unexpected weird attack of Mr Bellybutton Fluff | Julia Spencer, Darcy Eagles – The Meaning of Treasure | Ella Demarchi – Sincerely H
2020 Winners
Winner: Poppy Treloar, from Georgiana Molloy Anglican School for her short film Sandbox
Runner Ups: James Kenworthy and Cooper Warwick for their short film The Decoy
Watch all 7 finalist films – in screening order: Suitcase Story, A Suitcase Story, Lost and Found, In Case, Nonentity, Sandbox, The Decoy
2019 Winners
Winners: James Kenworthy & Cooper Warrick, from Cape Naturaliste College, for their film 5 Minute Story
Runner Ups: Skye Allen and Kaila Walz for their film The Watch
Other 2019 finalist films were: Tempus, One in a Billion, Butterfly, Late or Early, The Watch
2018 Cinesnaps Short Film Finalists
Winners: James Kenworthy & Cooper Warwick, from Cape Naturaliste College, for their film Gateway
Runner Up: Jaxon D’Ath, from Manea Senior College, for his film Mirror Dimension
Our other 2018 Film Finalists were: Broken, Agateophobia, Reflective, Critical Reflection