Entries open for Australian Directors Guild Awards

Entries are now open in the 2010 Australian Directors Guild Awards with six new categories added to the event.

There are new categories in the areas of documentary features, children’s TV and TV reality / light entertainment. Three of the new categories are for digital work, which was previously represented with only one award category. They are for interactive branded entertainment, cross platform interactive and also original online programs.

“Directors are in the business of telling stories on screen in the traditional areas of features, documentary and TV drama and, increasingly, via new delivery platforms, such as online sites and interactive media. Our members’ work is reaching audiences on screens large and small, from cinema to mobile phone, through games and on your TV,” the ADG’s president Ray Argall said.

Australian Directors Guild Awards 2010 categories:
1. Feature
2. Telemovie
3. Television mini series
4. Documentary feature. NEW
5. Documentary stand alone
6. Documentary series
7. Short
8. Television drama series
9. TV drama serial
10. Television comedy.
11. Television children’s NEW
12. TV reality / light entertainment. NEW
13. Animation
14. TVC
15. Interactive Branded Entertainment NEW
16. Cross Platform Interactive NEW
17. Original Online Programs NEW
16. Music Video
17. Student
18. GRASS – green awareness encouragement award

Except for the student category, works screening in the 18 months from January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 will be eligible for entry. Previously, the eligibility period was a 12 month window from July to June.

Entries close on Monday July 5, 2010
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