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Tim Winton.s The Turning was named best feature at the 26th annual Wa Screen Awards presented in Perth on Monday night.

Drift was recognised for best actor Myles Pollard, Tim Duffy.s screenplay and for Glenn Dillon.s sound.

Emily Rose Brennan.s performance in the online series The Legend of Gavin Tanner: Episode 5 - The Big Fight, earned her the best actress award. The comedy also took the People.s Choice Award for the Mad Kids team of writer/star Matt Lovkis, director Henry Inglis and producer Lauren Elliott.

Nicholas Dunlop was honoured as best director for Comic Book Heroes, the ABC documentary about the quest by Australian comic book creators Wolfgang Byslma and Skye Walker Ogden to penetrate the Us market by travelling to Comic-Con International in San Diego; it also won best factual TV production.

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This morning an email appeared in our inbox from Fuzzy Pictures about a new Australian horror comedy entitled Dead Set, which shows what happens when a director refuses to relinquish his dream even as cast and crew drop dead around him.

Dead Set, written and directed by Paul Komadina and starring Jonathan Wood and Mollie King, is described as "a bloody, black comedy [that's] slickly shot and dripping with gore." It will have its world premiere at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin, which runs February 11-21, 2010.

Below you'll find some early artwork and a trailer for the film. We're not sure why they chose to change its name from the previously announced The Director's Cut to mimic a very popular British TV show (the original title seems much more applicable), but in any event, visit the official Dead Set website and keep it here for more as it comes.

Why anyone would re-title their film to match an existing, not to mention terrific, UK horror series is beyond me. It just creates confusion. Nevertheless, filmmaker Paul Komadina has unveiled the trailer for his Australian horror-comedy Dead Set (formerly known as The Director's Cut ). Tell me if you've heard this one before: A passionate director will go to any length to get his film in the can, even at the expense of his crew members who seem to be dropping like flies at the hands of a murderer. Dead Set is Komadina's feature film debut; it's being sold at the Berlin film market next month.