The third year of SNOWYfest cemented the festival as a fixture of the Thredbo ski season opening month, with record attendances, entries and quality of films.

The SNOWYfest Judges (check them out here) universally praised the quality of our 2006 entries in both our Best Short Film and Capital Region Film categories. The sentiment was shared by audiences at SNOWYfest, with the festival drawing to a close in June 2006 after a fantastic weekend of skiing, boarding, features and short films galore.

The results of our Judges deliberations were announced at the champagne-filled Awards Party in the Thredbo Alpine Hotel, on Saturday 17 June 2006. The competition was extremely close, but in the end we saw a clear winner in both categories and our first ever international winner of our Best Film Prize. Photos from our winning films appear (in order) at the right underneath the sample program pages from our 2006 Festival Program.

• $2,000 Kosciuszko-Thredbo Prize for Best Film, "BINTA & THE GREAT IDEA" (Spain)
  Director: Javier Fesser
  Producer: Luis Manso, Manuel García

• $500 Best Film Runner Up, "THE MECHANICALS"
  Director: Leon Ford
  Producer: Nicole O'Donohue

• $1,000 Best Capital Region Film, "THE MILKMAN"
  Director: Duane Fogwell
  Producer: Gaz Benson

• $500 Capital Region Runner Up "OUR COMMUNITY"
  Director: Sean Kennedy
  Producer: Frances Peters-Little

Kosciuszko Thredbo Best Short Film Finalists

The finalists from which the winning films were selected, and all of which screened during the 2006 Festival, are listed in alphabetical order below, together with their Director/s and Producer/s.

As long as I am rolling
Jackson Pellow
Jackson Pellow, Mia Lumb & Karinn Cheung

Automatic
Andrew Ewing
Cinzia Donald & Jen Jamieson

Binta & The Great Idea
Javier Fesser
Luis Manso, Manuel García

Checkpoint
Ben Phelps
Ben Phelps & Tim Kreibig

Chill Bit
Zane Roach
Zane Roach & Lee Cowan

Crooked Mick of the Speewah
Phillip Smith
Luke Eve

Danya
Beth Armstrong
Luke Eve

Dear Sweet Emma
John Cernak
The Staff At Out of Our Minds Images, Loraine Cernak

Do You See Me?
Alessandro de Cristofaro
Alessandro de Cristofaro

Domestic
Brett Snelgrove
Katie Hides

Father's Day
Simon Blyth
Simon Blyth & Katie Millington

Fingerprints
Cathrine McVeigh
Cathrine McVeigh & Clare Tonkin

Heads Up
Dean Ganter
Garrett Russell

Hole in the Wall
Peter Hegedus
Vickie Gest

In Absentia
Darryl Knickrehm
Darryl Knickrehm

Insecurities
Beth Taylor
Susan Cornish

Lost Property
Craig Proudley
Scott Oxford & Craig Proudley

Maybe Mum's not the word
Beth Taylor
Sarah Royds

N for Nelly
Katrina Mathers
Chris Manson, Nathan Kay, Katrina Mathers

Off The Rails
Darcy Prendergast
Darcy Prendergast

One Lonely Lost Umbrella Seeks Companion
Irina Goundortseva
Irina Goundortseva

The Mechanicals
Leon Ford
Nicole O'Donohue

The Story of Bubbleboy
Sean Ascroft
Kristy Fransen

Transient
Craig Boreham
Genevieve Derwent

Turn
Michael Lucas
Stuart Parkyn

Valour
John Vaughan
John Vaughan, Loretta Kerins

Wobbegong
Owen Trevor
Lucas Jenner

Australian Capital Region Short Film Finalists

The finalists in this category are listed below in alphabetical order, together with thier Director/s and Producer/s.

Chasing Parallels
Christian Doran
Soren Jensen & Christian Doran

Every Thing Ruined
Scott Murden
Brendan Sloane

Everyday Things
Douglas Kirk
Heather Spong & Bobby Farquhar

Hypothetically Speaking
James Hunter
James Hunter

In Bad Taste
David Easteal
Matt Fallon

Just a Crack
Sam Burns-Warr & Jordan Prosser
Sam Burns-Warr & Jordan Prosser

Members of the Board
James Lane
DM Travers

Not your average Joe
Ben Wade
Adam Grant & Ben Wade

One for the Road
David Doepel
David Doepel & James Moller

Our community
Sean Kennedy
Frances Peters-Little

Pre-School
Belinda Barancewicz
Belinda Barancewicz

Seven Days with Seven Dogs
Billie Dean
Andrew Einspruch & Billie Dean

Silent Night
Douglas Kirk
Bobby Farquhar

Something to Sing About
Nathan Luff
Carissa Buckland

Spin City
Patrick J Gallagher
Patrick J Gallagher

Tallagandra Lane
Scott Holgate
Ian Thomson & Scott Holgate

The Car Park
Brent & Scott Holgate
Brent & Scott Holgate

The Milkman
Duane Fogwell
Gaz Benson

The night before the morning after
Scott Maybury
Lillace Mary & Scott Maybury

The Unsung Joys Of Canberra
Simon Phegan
Simon Phegan

Whingeing Bastard
Susie Prest
Susie Prest

Judges for SNOWYfest in 2006

BEST FILM JUDGES

• Julia Overton, Film Finance Corporation
• Georgina Willis, Potoroo Films
• Stephen Wallace, Australian Film Commission
  
• Greg Pakis, Director of the award winning feature, THE GARTH METHOD
  
• Anthony O'Connor, Screenwriter (ANGST 2000) and FILMINK contributor
• Thomas Magill, Lecturer Academy of Interactive Entertainment
• George Betsis, CEO of Sydney advertising agency, Kindred
• Jo Hearne, Tourism Thredbo
  

BEST AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL REGION FILM JUDGES

• Don Allan, Canberra Chronicle
• Stavros Georgiadias, ACT Filmmakers Network
• Ian Gibson, CEO Academy of Interactive Entertainment
  
• Dan Miller, Lecturer Academy of Interactive Entertainment
• Robert Pickles, ScreenACT

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