Australian International Film Festival 2006 Award Winners
by Andre Soares
Monty Lapica’s U.S.-made Self-Medicated, which has been winning assorted awards at various independent film festivals, was chosen Best Feature Film at the Australian International Film Festival, held in Melbourne this past October. The film also won the Best Actress award for Diane Venora, as the substance-abusing mother of a substance-abusing young man (Lapica).
In addition to Self-Medicated, a number of other American productions — including Terri Farley-Teruel’s Beautiful Dreamer (Best International Film), a tale of war, romance, and amnesia (that sounds quite a bit like the 1942 classic Random Harvest), and John Daniel Gavin’s underworld drama Johnny Montana (Best Debut Feature) — dominated the list of winners.
The Best Australian Film was Kieran Galvin’s self-described "dark love story" Puppy, about a pathological liar (Nadia Townsend) who hooks up with a delusional tow-truck driver (Bernard Curry) who is sure she is his runaway wife.
Paddy Considine was chosen Best Actor for keeping an eye on drug-addicted Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones (Leo Gregory) in Stephen Woolley’s British drama Stoned.
Full list of winners at the 2006 Australian International Film Festival.
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