The Student Film Festival returned to Melbourne after two years due to COVID-19 restrictions to celebrate its 12th year and help students express themselves in the Greek language and create art that connects them with their heritage.
The theme for this year’s competition was ‘I Epistrofi’ (The Return) to our normalcy, to life as we knew it or as we redefine it. Participants could interpret the topic as they wished with many taking the approach of the ‘return’ to the self, our heritage, the family, return to Country/country, return to school, security, hove, world peace and inner peace and home, whatever meaning the word ‘home’ might have for each person.
This year’s signature item, which had to be included in each film, was a spinning top toy.
The films were screened at the 2022 Greek Film Festival on Sunday, 23 October at 12.30pm at Leichhardt’s Palace Norton Street Cinema, followed by the award ceremony.
The event was attended by Educational Coordinator Georgia Nikolaidou; Secretary of the Association of Modern Greek Educators Dionysia Diakodimitriou; Artistic Director of the Short Film Festival Dimitris Koutsoukos, Former Director of Director of GOCMV Schools Kypros Kyprianou, drama studies educator Katerina Poutachidou and members of the GOCMV Committee.
The winners were:
PRIMARY
1st Place
The Return, by GOCMV MATHESIS, 133 points
2nd Place (Tie)
Return to Nature, by GOCMV ALBERT PARK, 118 points
The First Australians, by GOCMV NARRE WARREN, 118 points
Technology Does Not Return, by GOCMV Doncaster Saturday school, 118 points
3rd Place
The Return of the Dinosaurs, by GOCMV City, 116 points
SECONDARY
1st Place
Tele-Svoura, by GOCMV City – 1st year of high school 7B, 135 points
2nd Place
School Memories, by Oakleigh Grammar, 125 points
3rd Place
Return to Greek School, by GOCMV City, 123 points
