The L'Oréal Paris AFI Awards in Australia are held each year to recognise and celebrate excellence in Australian film and television production. They are Australian film and television’s most prestigious awards. Green Fire Envy is officially a contender in the L'Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards!

The film was submitted for the following categories:

The film was submitted for the following categories: Best Film Green Fire Envy Best Lead Actress Ashleigh Cummings Best Supporting Actress Jessica Arapi Young Actors Award Jessica Arapi and Ashleigh Cummings Best Editing Sebastian Kade Best Original Music Score Adam Luck Best Original Screenplay Moises, Ben Richardson, Thomas Tesoriero, Vincent Andriano

The regulations for submission to the AFI Awards as a contender don’t exactly make it easy. According to the AFI Awards Rule Book 2008 the film must satisfy various outlines for qualification. The most important point of submission is: The film must be publicly exhibited during the Release Period for paid admission in a commercial cinema, for a run of at least seven consecutive days, in any Australian capital city where the film has a production budget of less than $1.5 million… If the film has a budget above $1.5 million the film must screen in three cities including Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

Green fire Envy qualified relying purely on self-distribution, under the rules laid out for much higher budget productions.

Thanks to a sponsorship from Hoyts cinemas, Green Fire Envy, screened for one week in Sydney, however, achieving the other screenings for qualification to AFI would be a bit more of a challenge. For several weeks leading up to the AFI submission, the student producers of Participate approached 600 cinemas in Australia. They faced rejection after rejection but eventually succeeded securing 13 weeks of screenings with 3 – 5 screenings per day on each screen.

Special Thanks
NSW Hoyts Wetherill Park, Sydney
QLD Bigscreen Cinemas Hervey Bay Majestic Theatre Pomona Moranbah Cinemas Eldorado Cinemas Indooroopilly
SA Wallis Mitcham Cinemas, Adelaide
VIC Metro Cinemas Boronia, Melbourne

“We just couldn’t believe it,” said producer Catherine Neasbey, “We just want to thank everyone for their support; this means the world to us”.

Green Fire Envy kicked off AFI screenings in Canberra on the 30th August 08. Join us for the screenings of the film in a city near you. Meet the producers of the film, who will be introducing each screening in Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and Sydney