Griffith University

The Queensland College of Art has a number of awards in place to recognise both staff and students at all stages on their academic, social, cultural, employment and research paths.

Our students and staff also receive awards from industry and external organisations. Congratulations to all listed.

If you have been the recipient of an award as a Queensland College of Art or Griffith Film School staff member or student, let us know.

Click through each of the links for further information and continue to check our QCA News Site for continuing developments.

Graduate Awards:

• The Godfrey Rivers Medal, which is awarded to the highest achieving student within each undergraduate bachelor program of the Queensland College of Art.
  

Design and Digital Media Awards:

• **NEW** The Southern Cross Packaging Awards, a packaging and design industry awards program for tertiary design students.

• Queensland College of Art Design lecturer Dominique Falla is a finalist in the 2011 AGDA Poster awards.
  

Fine Art Awards:

• *NEW* Queensland College of Art sessional staff member and QCA Alumnus (PhD), Miles Hall has been awarded the Australia Council Paris studio for 2012.
  

• *NEW* Eric Rossi, Queensland College of Art PhD student has been awarded the Helsinki studio residency in 2012 by the the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
  

• Mostyn Bramley-Moore wins the 2011 Rio Tinto Alcan Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award.

• QCA Gold Coast graduate, Joel Rea, was the only Queensland finalist in the running to win Australia’s richest art award for young people, worth $50,000.

• Ryan Presley secures a 2011 Art Start grant.

• James Watts secures a 2011 Art Start grant.

Photography:

• **NEW** Congratulations to Queensland College of Art Documentary Photography Masters student, Sitthixay Ditthavong for gaining the first artist residency at Documentary Arts Asia (DAA).

• Congratulations to QCA’s Kate Bernauer on winning the 2011 Clayton Utz Launch Art Award.

• Everyone at QCA would like to congratulate recent graduate, Harrison Saragossi, on winning a prestigious Walkley Award for his portrayal of Fortitude Valley’s notorious nightlife.
  

Griffith Film School Awards:

• *NEW* Congratulations Amy Mack, who graduated with a Bachelor of Animation with Honours from Griffith Film School last year. She has just had her film selected as a finalist in the Bondi Short Film Festival.

• The ATOM Awards

• The Queensland New Filmmaker Awards

• GFS Alumnus recives top award at Lord Mayors Business Awards, 2011.

• The winner of the Screen Queensland Award for Film Script at the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards is Alice Addison for The Hunter (Porchlight Films).

• GFS team win a nation-wide competition for a ‘Serious Game’, Alternator, which is now live on ABC3 online.

• Congratulations to Griffith Film School Alumnus, Peter Hegedus. His documentary Trouble with St Mary has been short-listed for a 2011 BIFF Documentary Award.

• GFS student film, ‘Sushi, I Love You’ has been selected for the 10th International Student and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy being held in November 2011.

• 2010 GFS graduates win 1st Prize at the Toowoomba Origin8 Fast Film Festival 2011.

• Congratulations to all of the creative teams who worked on a number of Griffith Film School student films that have been selected for screening at the 2011 Brisbane International Film Festival.

• GFS Alumni shortlisted for the 2011 AWGIES. Since 1967 the Australian Writers’ Guild has presented the AWGIE Awards to recognise and reward excellence in performance writing.

• Griffith Film School Games Convener, Matt Ditton wins at Freeplay, 2011.

• Two Griffith Film School student films have been selected for inclusion in the Student Competition of the 2011 Antenna Documentary Festival.

• A Griffith Film School film – ‘One Evening‘ just received an ‘Honorable Mention’ in the student film category at the Los Angeles Art-House Film Festival Awards 2011.

• Announced at the St George Brisbane International Film Festival 2010 – GFS Graduates, Justin Morrissey and Alex Barnes are the winners of the prestigious Chauvel Award with their film Black Cockatoo – White Cockatoo.

Staff Awards:

• **NEW** The AEL General Staff Excellence Awards, celebrating the achievements and commitment of general staff across the group.

• The successful Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) 2011 Innovation and Development Grant Round outcomes have been announced.