What gets made here

The films

Real short films made with Koevari Pictures (formerly GP2 Entertainment), with a full crew and a proper call sheet, listed on IMDb and submitted to festivals, cast entirely from our own students.

What the work has won

Two films, and the record behind them

Both were cast entirely from students in these classes. These are the results you can look up, with the piece of paper each one came with.

The painted one-sheet poster for the short film Wired
WIRED2022 to 2023. Nine wins, four nominations. An undercover cop must eliminate a high profile target to save her family.
The poster for the web series Diana
DIANA2020 to 2021. Ten wins, four nominations, including Best Australian Web Series at the Gold Coast Film Festival.
Festival laurel: Special Mention, Supporting Actress
Special Mention, Supporting ActressRuby Lott, a FilmLab student, for Wired
Festival laurel: Best Action Half Length Film
Best Action Half Length FilmWired
Festival laurel: Best Cinematography
Best CinematographyNigel Jones, who shoots our production days
Festival laurel: Best Music
Best MusicWired
Festival laurel: Official Selection
Official SelectionFive Continents International Film Festival, 2023

Five of the laurels. The complete record is below, festival by festival, with who won each one.

Every result, named

The full record, festival by festival

Not a total to take our word for. These are the festivals, the awards and who won them, on two films cast entirely from students in these classes.

Wired 2022 to 2023

9 wins named · 4 nominations named

  • Five Continents International Film Festival Best Action Short Film Peter Koevari, Ruby Lott
  • Five Continents International Film Festival Special Mention, Supporting Actress Ruby Lott, a FilmLab student
  • Five Continents International Film Festival Special Mention, Sound Design Nigel Jones
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Cinematography Nigel Jones
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Music Marco Mazzei
  • Onyko Films Awards Best Cinematography, Short Film Nigel Jones
  • Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival Honorable Mention, Best Short Film Peter Koevari
  • Assurdo Film Festival Best Poster Peter Koevari
  • Robinson Film Awards Best Poster Peter Koevari
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Short Peter Koevari
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Director Peter Koevari
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Editing Peter Koevari
  • Always Late TV Movie Awards Best Short Horror or Thriller 2024

Diana 2020 to 2023

10 wins named · 4 nominations named

  • Gold Coast Film Festival Best Australian Web Series 2022
  • Malta Film Festival Best Series 2022
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Web Series 2021
  • Onyko Films Awards Best Web or TV Series 2021
  • OTB Only The Best International Film Awards Best Web or TV Series 2022
  • Roshani International Film Festival Best Drama 2022
  • Cooper Awards Best Drama Short Film 2021
  • Cooper Awards Best Editing, Short Film 2021
  • Davey Awards, United States Silver Award, Best Use of Music Jacquie Joy
  • Vega Digital Awards Centauri Award, Online Video Jacquie Joy
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Cinematography Taine Noble
  • Top Indie Film Awards Best Original Idea Peter Koevari
  • MLC Awards Best Series Episode 2022
  • L'HIFF Barcelona International Film Festival Best Web Series 2022

Named above: nineteen wins and eight nominations, each one with the festival that gave it and the person who received it. IMDb's own totals across the two films are twenty wins and eleven nominations, counted by award round rather than by award, and one win in that total is not one we can put a festival to. We would rather show you the nineteen we can. Both films are listed on IMDb under their own titles.

That is a different scale from a class and we do not pretend otherwise.

Two of these are given and one is not, and we would rather be blunt about which. Every student in a term is filmed every week and is in what gets shot on the production days. That is included and it is not conditional on being good enough. A crewed Koevari Pictures short film is a different thing: it is cast by audition, the role has to be right, and if the right actor is not in our room we will look outside it. Nobody buys their way onto a set here, and no fee has ever included a part.

19
festival wins

Across two productions, both cast entirely from FilmLab students, and every one of them named above. Eight further nominations.

2
on IMDb

Diana and Wired. Every student in them carries the credit.

1
student acting award

Ruby Lott, Special Mention for Supporting Actress at the Five Continents International Film Festival.

A film still from a FilmLab production, a man in a plastic-sheeted room
STILLFrom a FilmLab production. Full frame, not cropped to fit a layout.

Wired 2022–2023

An undercover cop must eliminate a high profile target, to save her family.

CASTRuby Lott · Michelle Brass · Jane Bychkova · Eden Jaymes · Chris Hurst · Yagmur Dikici

AWARDSNine wins, four nominations. Best Action Short Film and Special Mention for Supporting Actress to Ruby Lott at the Five Continents International Film Festival. Best Cinematography at the Top Indie Film Awards and at the Onyko Films Awards.

Diana 2020–2021

A young woman who receives an unexpected ability must avoid capture and survive a nemesis intent on her destruction. Pilot episodes one and two, released and in festivals.

CASTRuby Lott · Tyrah Read · Erin Bradley · Agathe Camp · Emily Collins · Megan Hintz · XinYi-Athena Miller

AWARDSTen wins, four nominations. Best Australian Web Series at the Gold Coast Film Festival. Best Series at the Malta Film Festival. Best Web Series at the Top Indie Film Awards.

FilmLab students and Peter Koevari on the Gold Coast Film Festival red carpet in 2022
GOLD COAST FILM FESTIVAL, 2022The night Diana won Best Australian Web Series. Students on the carpet, at a festival their own work was in.

After the shoot

Where the work goes

Finished films are submitted to external festivals through Koevari Pictures, and students come to the screenings. That is the whole point of shooting properly: the work has somewhere to go afterwards.

Watch

The films, and the episodes

Both cast entirely from students in this room. Teasers, and the two pilot episodes in full.