The 14th Melbourne Undergound Film Festival Awards

 

 

The MUFF 14 Awards results. Winners are Grinners.

 

OZ and International –

 

Best Film (Tie) – Jugular (dir: JJ DeCeglie) & Thanatomorphose (dir: Éric Falardeau)

 

Runner Up Best Film – Model Behaviour

 

Best Director – JJ DeCeglie

 

Best Male Actor – Gregory Pakis – for  Jugular & The Joe Manifesto

 

Best Female Actor – Lindsay Lohan – The Canyons

 

Best Supporting Male Actor – Don Baker – The Late Men

 

Best Supporting Female Actor – Samira Amira – Model Behaviour

 

Special Jury Prize – The House Cleaner – director Timothy Spanos

 

Best Guerrilla Film – Made in Australia – Director Matt Pastor

 

Best Documentary – Burn – directors Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez

 

Award for Innovation in the New Cinema – The Late Men – director Van Poynton

 

Best Screenplay – Bret Easton Ellis (The Canyons)

 

Best Short Film (Tie) – Butterflies (dir: Isabel Peppard) and Year of the Golf Ball (dir: David Thrussell)

 

Runner Up Best Short Film – The Side Entrance

 

Best Short Director – Chris and Robert Smellin. (She’s Having a Baby & Last Night)

 

Best Screnplay Short – Seamus Ryan and Michael Taylor – The Side Entrance

 

Best Male Actor in a Short Film – Seamus Ryan – The Side Entrance

 

Best Female Actor in a Short Film – Maya Jean – Ravenous

 

 

INTERNATIONAL

 

Best Foreign Film – The Canyons

 

Best Foreign Director – Paul Schrader – The Canyons

 

 

Best International Short – The Child, the Woman and The Men