The Australian Film Institute has announced the early non-feature contenders for this year's AFI Awards, as determined by decided by an industry jury.
The nominees are:
AFI AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
Contact Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Inside The Firestorm Lucy Maclaren, Alex West
The Snowman Rachel Landers, Dylan Blowen
Strange Birds In Paradise – A West Papuan Story (pictured below) Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry
AFI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT ANIMATION
The Lost Thing Sophie Byrne, Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
Zero (pictured top) Christine Kezelos, Christopher Kezelos
AFI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FICTION FILM
Deeper Than Yesterday Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler, Anna Kojevnikov, Ariel Kleiman
The Kiss. Sonya Humphrey, Ashlee Page
The Love Song Of Iskra Prufrock Lyn Norfor, Lucy Gaffy
Suburbia Richard Halsted, Antonio Oreña-Barlin
A list of feature films in general contention will be released in early August, ahead of the member screenings program. All of the 2010 feature and television AFI nominees will be announced in October.
