Julia Scott-Stevenson

Julia is a writer and researcher of all things documentary, and even dabbles in making them herself from time to time.

Africa to Australia bags an AIMIA Award

22 March 2011 | 9:00 - By Julia Scott-Stevenson

The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Awards were on Friday night, and SBS’s online interactive documentary Africa to Australia took out the honours in the Best Cultural or Lifestyle category. Africa to Australia was in good company, with a slew of great websites and online projects picking up awards on the night.

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The People’s Choice Award went to Freelancer.com, a site that connects freelancers with people needing tasks done virtually. The Loop is a site that bills itself as Facebook for your professional life in the creative fields, and it won the Best Enterprise category. One winner I particularly like the look of is the Cyber Bullying Affects Real Lives campaign, which took out the Best Children’s category. High school could be hideous enough in the pre-Facebook and SMS era, I can only imagine how hellish it gets now - any valiant effort to combat bullying would get my vote and digital media seems like a smart approach.

The simple but effective Burma 3 Freedoms campaign for Amnesty International Australia won the Cross-Platform Award, showing you don’t need a complicated idea to make a bold statement. Another simple idea won the Non-profit or Government category - Donate Life, using stories of organ donors and recipients to encourage others to donate their organs.

You can see the full list of winners here.

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Julia Scott-Stevenson Julia is a writer and researcher of all things documentary, and even dabbles in making them herself from time to time. She lived in the Pacific Islands of Fiji and Samoa for a few years, where she made a documentary about the inaugural Miss Tokelau beauty pageant and a short documentary about climate change in Samoa, which screened at the inaugural Pacific Climate Change Film Festival. While in the Pacific she was subjected to limited internet connectivity, and was staggered to discover the possibilities in online documentary on her return at the end of 2008. She has since been making up for lost time by undertaking a PhD researching cross-platform documentary, and also working on a database documentary about volunteers. Julia is also on the programming team for Antenna International Documentary Film Festival.

 
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