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Best Telefeature or Mini Series
or Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series
Subcategory of Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
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History

Award name change to Best Telefeature or Mini Series for the 3rd Awards in 2013.

Notes

  • Inaugurated in 2011 and first presented in 2012 (for the 2011 award year).

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner form y separately published work icon The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Sarah Lambert , Kirsty Fisher , Kim Wilson , ( dir. Glendyn Ivin ) Australia : Made Up Stories Amazon Studios Endeavour Content , 2023 23434630 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past.'

Source: Amazon Studios.

Year: 2022

winner form y separately published work icon The Twelve Greg Waters , Sarah Walker , Brad Winters , Anchuli Felicia King , Leah Purcell , Tommy Murphy , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim ) Australia : Warner Brothers Easy Tiger Productions , 2022 23923232 2022 series - publisher film/TV crime Twelve jurors must decide on the case of a woman accused of killing a child.

Year: 2021

winner form y separately published work icon Fires The Fires Belinda Chayko , Jacquelin Perske , Mirrah Foulkes , Steven McGregor , Anya Beyersdorf , Australia : Tony Ayres Productions , 2021 20851564 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'The Tony Ayres Productions (TAP) series is planned as a serialised anthology, inspired by the stories of the people who survived the catastrophe and continue to endure its aftermath.

'Each episode will be based around character studies of ordinary people caught in the unimaginable and the impossible choices they were forced to make. These will include volunteer firefighters; families who lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones; people who had to make agonising decisions about whether to stay or flee; and others who found themselves responsible for the lives of friends and strangers.'

Source: Inside Film (https://www.if.com.au/abc-tony-ayres-productions-developing-bushfire-drama/). (Sighted: 3/12/2020)

Year: 2020

winner form y separately published work icon Stateless Elise McCredie , Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Emma Freeman et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Matchbox Pictures , 2020 16563781 2020 series - publisher film/TV

Inside Film describes the series as 'a six-part drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert'.

Source: https://www.if.com.au/cate-blanchett-co-creates-and-stars-in-refugee-drama-stateless (Sighted: 17/05/2019).

Year: 2019

winner form y separately published work icon Lambs of God Sarah Lambert , ( dir. Jeffrey Walker ) Australia : Lingo Pictures Foxtel , 2019 14170207 2019 series - publisher film/TV

Three nuns, each a generation apart, live an isolated life in a dilapidated convent, forgotten by the church and society -- until a priest stumbles across them and, in trying to sell their land, disturbs their lives, existence, and beliefs.

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