JUDGES' CHOICE WINNER
HSV Handbook
thegents
PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNERS
Charades
Mixed Mediums
Hey Barry?
shortfocusfilms
Holdup
Mixed Mediums
I'm Getting Married!
shortfocusfilms
Scrabble
Mixed Mediums
JUDGES' CHOICE FINALISTS
Don't wait til its too late.
Seth Gecko
Dr Dill Presents HSV Awareness
Daddy Issues Productions
HSV Handbook
thegents
Let's Be Honest
GK&BD
The Sound of Herpes
anikaherbert
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
5 hot tips.
benemac
Bear Hug
thegents
Living with HSV
Subconscious
Media Magnet - Shoes
Benj
The Proposal
Micko 68
1
Hey Barry?
shortfocusfilms
3
Dr Dill Presents HSV Awareness
Daddy Issues Productions
0
Lunchtime at the Cafe
Ben Young
0
Scrabble
Mixed Mediums
0
Timing is Everything
Schmaxx
0
Get Literal
keirw88
0
A Night to Remember
magicbrushstroke
0
Charades
Mixed Mediums
0
Caution Herpes
magicbrushstroke
1
I'm Getting Married!
shortfocusfilms
2
Holdup
Mixed Mediums
0
Morning Glory
ellagwright
PRIZES
This year we are offering some great prizes to film makers who get involved in this important project.
JUDGES' CHOICE
- Our panel of judges will be selecting the film that most effectively communicates 'how you tell a partner you have HSV'.
- Finalist shortlist will be announced Wednesday 2 November 2011.
- The winner of the Judges Choice Award $10,000 will be announced on Thursday November 10 2011 at the Live and Love Film Screening Awards at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington, NSW.
- The 5 shortlisted finalists will receive one return airfare and one nights accommodation to attend the Awards.
PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- When people view the Live and Love films they can click ‘vote’. People will only be able to vote for the same film once every 24 hours.
- The five films that receive the most votes will each be awarded a prize of up to $1,000 People’s Choice Award at the Live and Love Film Screening Awards at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington, NSW on Thursday 10th November 2011.
- Voting for the People's Choice award closes Thursday 3 November 2011 at 11.59pm
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- Award winning writer/director
- Specifically deals with social justice themes within her work
- Showcased her first feature documentary, made for Down Syndrome NSW, at the Sydney Opera House
- Winner of the 2009 Movie Extra Tropfest film festival with her critically acclaimed short film, Be My Brother
- Her latest short film Frances and Annie, made a successful debut at the 2009 Bondi Short film festival, winning Best Script and was recently selected to screen at the prestigious 2010 Dungog film festival
- Her work has been screened at over thirty festivals, both nationally and internationally
- Recently nominated to be a part of the 2011 edition of the ‘Who’s Who of Australian Women’ magazine for her services to the film industry
- Currently director for Beyond Vision, Australia’s first theatre for the blind
- Earned a director’s attachment with award-winning director Alister Grieson, on the 3D feature film Sanctum, of which James Cameron is Executive Producer
- Is Executive Director of NFP Bus Stop Films, Bus Stop is dedicated to helping people with disabilities engage in professional film making
- Is Co-owner and Creative Director at Taste Media
- Is an Alumni of the Young Social Pioneers run by the Foundation for Young Australians
- Currently is directing a documentary in her home town of Newcastle, for Down Syndrome NSW
- Professor of Sexual Health Medicine, University of Sydney
- Director of the Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Centre (STIRC), Westmead Hospital
- Chair, Australian Herpes Management Forum
- One of Australia’s leading experts in the clinical and psychological management of patients with herpes
- Frequently invited to lecture on herpes in Australia and internationally
- Author of several medical books, numerous book chapters and over 100 scientific articles
- On the Editorial Board of several international medical journals including Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexual Health.
- Dr Catriona Ooi is Director of Sexual Health for The Hunter New England Area Health. She has a conjoint academic appointment with the University of Newcastle and is Chair of the General Practice Working party for Herpes Viruses. She is also a Board member of the Australian Herpes Management Forum (AHMF) and a regular columnist for Medical Observer.
- Dr Ooi has worked overseas in the United Kingdom and Africa as well as in rural and metropolitan areas of Australia.
- She completed a Masters of Medicine in HIV/STIs with research on syphilis. She trained at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital in London and at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre at Sydney Hospital.
- Dr Ooi began her career working as a senior registrar specialising in HIV/STD medicine at Clinic 16 at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. After this appointment, she worked in various sexual health clinics around NSW as a staff specialist in Sexual Health.
- Her work predominantly focuses on sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.
- Dr Ooi has been published in both national and international peer reviewed journals. She has contributed to text books and has ongoing involvement in teaching and training undergraduate medical students and post graduate doctors. She has also been involved with public education on STDs, having fielded radio news and talkback programs on the topic, as well as appearing in television and in the print media.
- Dr Darren Russell is the Director of Sexual Health at Cairns Base Hospital.
- He also holds the positions of Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at The University of Melbourne and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University.
- Dr Russell is the past-President of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and has an interest in men’s health, Indigenous sexual health, HIV/AIDS, and genital herpes infections.
- He is involved in clinical and epidemiological research, and is a co-editor of the textbook, Sexual health medicine, and a joint author of Talking with clients about sex.
- Dr Russell has worked in the field of sexual health and HIV medicine for 20 years.
- Cass has a Bachelor of Theatre degree. She has performed in countless stage shows and in children’s theatre, sung in bands, worked as a karaoke queen host and had many marketing/promotional jobs.
- She has been living with HSV for the past decade.
- Cass is a self proclaimed “jack of all trades” who has lived all over Australia. She has worked with wedding photographers and in hospitality, served as an arts director on cruise ship and more recently, spent time as a professional house sitter looking after a variety of animals, including a peacock who fell madly in love with her!
- Cass has performed a lot of character costume work, appearing as Humphrey B Bear and as a Rug Rat. She has also created her own clowning character, Cass the Clown, run clowning parties and developed an educational clowning program for preschoolers.
- She was diagnosed with HSV after months of experiencing extreme and inexplicable lower back pain, headaches and cold and flu like symptoms.
- Cass believes she contracted the virus from a former, long-term partner.
- She has found that many people are afraid of herpes – they don’t understand the virus. She often feels as though she is tainted and classed as a ‘bad person’ when she tells people about her diagnosis.
- Cass wants to stand up, change how the public views HSV and help those who have it find strength in numbers so no one else need confront the same difficulties she’s experienced.
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