SFF winners symbolise changing industry

Purcell, Igwabi, Agdag, Epstein, Stolevski, Baricevic.. gone is the great avalanche of Anglo-Celtic names which rolled through an industry generation.
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Image: photographed by Brett Boardman, this is a wonderful picture of Leah Purcell in her Belvoir Street production of The Drover’s Wife. 

Let’s do the monumental wide-ranging award first. Leah Purcell was awarded the $10,000 Sydney-UNESCO City of Film Award, bestowed by Create NSW to honour a ‘trail-blazing NSW-based screen practitioner’. 

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.