Heart of Gold offers singing Hungarians, a freezing Japanese folk musician and the ultimate burden

Heart of Gold takes a country town into short film hysteria, and delivers some compelling winners.
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In Gympie, festival director Emily Avila delivered four days of short films in the Heart of Gold Festival. The competition finalists were first winnowed by Avila and circulated to forty groups around town to create the ultimate nominees.

It is a nicely inclusive process. The jurors were Michael Caton, who went to school in Gympie and also came back for the local launch of Three Seasons, Lucy Gaffy who won last year, writer Roger Monk and me, as editor of ScreenHub. 

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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.