Hot Pink Shorts Winners 2006

This year's winners of the Hot Pink Shorts competition were selected from a very strong field. Prodigal Son was chosen as the winner of the Judges Choice award and the Canberra production About Personality won the Audience Choice Award. Maiara Skarheim’s One End Stands was a very popular audience choice and was also highly commended by the judges. Poppy was also praised by the judges.

Directors of the Audience Favourite, About Personality, Scott Malcolm and Matt Wright have donated their prize money to the AIDS Action Council. Mark, from BentLenses, presenting the cheque.

The judges for 2006: Sonia Gherdevich and Andrew Barr.

Sonia is currently the acting Senior Curator of Documents and Artefacts at the National Filmand Sound Archive.
Andrew Barr is the member for Molongolo. He is the first openly gay MP in the ACT and the first openly gay Cabinet member anywhere in Australia.

The Filmmakers: From left Maiara Skarheim Director of One End Stands, Scott Malcolm, Maiara's partner, Matt Wright (front) directors of About Personality, Katherine Goldie Director of Shed and Rose.