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Peter Skinner’s Lost Boy was crowned Best Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival on Saturday, winning a cash prize of $10,000.

The film, which was produced by Susannah Wolff and David Shyegun, stars Michael Sheasby as a volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.

Skinner previously earned an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination for the project.

Other winners included Jaina Kalifa and Amelia Paxman’s Lost Contact, which was awarded Best Documentary, and Gabriel Morrison’s Joy, for which Morrison received Best Director and Best Screenplay, which she shared with co-writer Serena Siow.

Fresh from its win at March’s SXSW, Jon Bell’s The Moogai won the award for Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking.

Of the acting categories, Ben Mortley won Best Actor for Antony Webb’s Carmentis,...

Can you believe how quickly this week has flown by? Already it's time for the last Britain's Got Talent semi-final of the series - and there are only two places left in Sunday's live final. Things are getting tense...

On top of nine more acts performing to try to impress us and the judges, we're getting a special appearance from last year's winners Collabro. So grab a pizza and join us on the sofa from 7.30pm when the show begins...

22:00But that's your lot for now! Thanks for joining us, and do keep leaving your comments below. We'll see you back here on Sunday for the final - squeal!

21:59Right, we're getting to pick between the five acts who just missed out on a place in the final - Henry Gallagher, Revelation Avenue, IMD Legion, Boyband and Jesse Jane McParland. Who are you going to vote for? The...

Is three minutes long enough to get you where you want to go within a sexy dramedy and leave you feeling both satisfied and wanting more? In this case, I’d answer with whatever the Australian word is for “yes.” Forget the Rules is an award winning Australian-based cross-media comedy/drama that follows the lives of 3 twenty-something roommates living in Melbourne. Upon release in October of ‘05 it played simultaneously over the airwaves on Australia music television station Channel V, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and uniquely on 3G mobile phones via Optus mobile. According to their web site’s fun facts section, it was the first comedy/drama series to broadcast all episodes at the same time on so many venues. The three main characters, Lisa (Louise Crawford), Pepe (Steven Cabral), and Pony (Daniel Kitchener) all have great chemistry. The more episodes you watch, the more you enjoy the trio and the...