2006 Sydney Film Festival Awards
2006 Sydney Film Festival Awards: June 27, 2006
Urban Cinefile Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature – World Cinema - Little
Miss Sunshine
(USA) Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Best Documentary – World Cinema – An Inconvenient
Truth (USA) Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Short – World Cinema – Daddy's Little
Helper (UK) Directed by Daniel Wilson
Best Feature – Sidebar Program - Fearless (Hong
Kong) Directed by Ronny Yu
Best Documentary – Sidebar Program - The Balanda
and The Bark Canoes (Australia) Directed by Molly Reynolds, Tania
Nehme, and Rolf de Heer
Best Short – Sidebar Program - No Umbrella – Election
Day in the City (USA) Directed by Laura Paglin
FIPRESCI Award: Favela Rising (USA / Brazil)
Directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary
Dendy Awards for Australian Short Film:
Rouben Mamoulian Award: Girl in a Mirror, directed
by Kathy Drayton
Documentary: Girl in a Mirror, directed by
Kathy Drayton
Experimental: Looking Back, directed by Mark
Tsukasov
Long Form Short: Stranded, directed by Stuart
McDonald
Short Form Short: The Eye Inside, directed
by Cordelia Beresford
Yoram Gross Animation Award: The Safe House,
directed by Lee Whitmore
CRC Award: Switch on the Night, directed by Alejandra Canales
Brussels European Film Festival Awards
Jerusalem Film Festival Awards
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards