The judges

Overall Excellence in Film and Video

Martin Williams, Senior project Officer NSW Film and Television Office

Script

Matthew Dabner, (Writer, The Square (feature film in production, for release 2008); Script Editor, I, Robot, Garage Days, Riverworld)

Directing

Ray Argall, President of Australian Directors' Guild. ( Dir: Return Home, SeaChange, MDA; DoP: Look Both Ways, Wrong World)

Drama

Debbie Lee, Commissioning Editor Drama, SBS Independent

Documentary

Pat Fiske, Head of Documentary AFTRS and Documentary, Director (For all the World to See, Doc) and Producer (Selling Sickness)

Experimental

Jackie Farkas, (Dir, Amelia Rose Towers, The Illustrated Auschwitz and DoP, Hunt Angels)

Animation

Luke Hetheringtom, Animal Logic, Head of CG/Artist Management, (House of Flying Daggers, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Editing

Henry Dangar, (Lucky Miles, Kiss or Kill)

Cinematography

Steve Arnold, (Highlander: The Source, Man - Thing)

Sound Design for Film

Andrew Plain, (Lantana, In the Cut and Look Both Ways)

Screen Music

Tom Ellard, (Illustrated Family Doctor, 2005 ARIA - best soundtrack album)

Production Design

Annie Beauchamp, (Desire Lines, The Well, Praise and My Mother Frank)

Collaborative New Media Project

Alex Burke, Executive Producer, Wireless & Broadcast Division at Hyro Ltd.

New Media Design

Emily Collins, Online Producer, NOISE ( Producer: NOISE SNAPSHOT, Animator+ Illustrator: Road to Kirribilli)

Audio Feature/ Soundscape

Tony Barrell, ABC Radio National (Writer, Higher than Heaven: Japan, War and Everything and Okinawa Dreams OK)