Enhance TV announces ATOM Award winners for 2009

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 29 October 2009 08:12

Your IT - Entertainment

The Australian Teachers Of Media (ATOM) Awards have been handed out this week.  In its 27th year the awards are there to encourage people working and studying all forms of screen media  across Australia and New Zealand.

The ATOM Awards have had entries judged and awarded this month.  The Enhance TV sponsored awards focus on all kinds of screen based media, from students to professionals, from video games, animation and TV presentations.

The following information includes further information about the prestigious media award, and includes this year’s winners list:

"We were thrilled, as always, with the calibre and content featured by this year's productions, both of the winners and the worthy finalists," commented Simon Wilmot, ATOM Awards Executive Officer.

"This program stands alone in this industry as the only one which judges, recognizes and then celebrates student works and those of industry professionals at the same time, something of which we at ATOM are very proud. The importance of the education and professional media industries working together to ensure that the bar is constantly being raised and our industry is continuing to grow and flourish cannot be underestimated and this program works hard to further this drive," he added.

The annual ATOM Awards program - now in its 27th year - recognises excellence in over thirty categories of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia (including video games) and celebrates the very best of Australian and New Zealand production.

The competition was open this year to anyone who had produced a short film, documentary, animation, electronic game, educational resource, television program or innovative new media work in the past twelve months.

The 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards program was presented by ATOM and EnhanceTV.

The 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards program was sponsored by Madman, Qantm College, Monash University, Deakin University, Encore Magazine, Celtx and Quest Collins Street Central and Multimedia Victoria and is supported by Metro Magazine, Screen Education, Open Channel, Qpix, MetroScreen, Wide Angle and Netagi, Screening Sponsor Big Mouth Marketing Communications and Screening Partners Federation Square, Melbourne, and the International Film School Sydney.

The 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards were funded by Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, Screen NSW (formerly the New South Wales Film and Television Office) and Film Victoria.
For more information about the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards please visit www.atomawards.org
The call for entries for the 2010 ATOM Awards will open in the coming weeks, so stay tuned to the website for more information.


And this year's winners are…

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