Emerging Filmmakers | North Bellarine Film

Meet the Emerging Filmmakers

One of the key elements of the festival is the Emerging Filmmakers Award. The award was established in 2019 to encourage and promote the work of young Victorian filmmakers.

Winners receive a trophy and cash award and all finalists get to see their films in a theatre in front of a live audience.

Alex Nesic- 2022

Alex is a filmmaker based in Melbourne, Australia. Since finding out his mother was an actor in China, Alex knew he wanted to work in the creative arts.

His film Unsaid was awarded Best Short Fiction by the 2022 Multicultural Film Festival. His film before that, The Shanking Gang was screened at a number of festivals, including Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival, Global Indie Film Fest and Byron Bay Underground Film Festival.

Listen to his interview with Jessie Aiton & Rob Cameron on Pulse FM.

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Jack Sillitoe- 2021

Jack is an aspiring filmmaker and 'Fixity' was his first short film.

Fixity was such a great experience for me, this is purely from the excitement of bringing a story written down on my own and gradually over time seeing it played out on screen. This is my first proper attempt at making a short film so there was a lot for me to learn.

Creating a cohesive narrative was one of the primary goals in this short film, without that the whole thing would be for nothing. So that was always in the back of his mind while filming.

Grace Griffith- 2020

Grace is a Swinburne film and television graduate and she produced, directed and co-wrote this film.

Fallen is a period drama set in Mont St Quentin, France during WW1. When a Captain tumbles into a trench with a serious bullet wound, a Private tends to the wound and distracts the Captain with conversation.

As the two men reveal intimate details of their life back home in Australia they make a chance revelation that will change the course of their war.

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Tadji Ulrich- 2019

Tadji Ulrich is a writer/director based in Melbourne, Australia. His short films have been screened in over 10 film festivals both in Australia and the US, including major festivals such as Tropfest, Flickerfest and St Kilda Film Festival.

In 2018, he won the prestigious Trop JR top prize, the junior category of the largest short film festival in the world.

In 2019, he won the Emerging Victorian Filmmaker Award with his film When We Were One.

His other film-related works includes teaching filmmaking at ACMI and interning on feature films such as The Dry.