SFC Film Festival - 2025

Meet the filmmakers from the 2025 festival, the nominees and the winners.

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Winners

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Gardner Of The Galaxy

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY   AND   BEST THEME USAGE

Director: Nick Natalicchio
Country: USA

Overview:
World renowned astrophysicist and planetary scientist Dr. Edward Guinan reflects on his life, work, and involvement in the “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” at Villanova University, which experiments with growing sustainable food sources on Mars.

Shapes and Rockets

WINNER: Best Futuristic Sci-Fi

Director: Aleks Wansbrough
Country: Australia

Overview:
A space traveller journeys across the universe to a crystal planet, but the planet is already inhabited. This is a story about how humans could behave. The visual style is influenced by Matisse, Hilma af Klint, Malevich, Miro, Paul Klee, Sonia Delaunay and the Constructivists.

The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B

WINNER: Best Positive Space Film

Director: Jacob Barry
Country: Indonesia

Overview:
A sci-fi documentary looking at the 100 years it takes a nuclear fusion spacecraft to travel to Proxima Centauri b. Showing the future science of space travel, exploration, and the space technology needed to make the multi-generational journey.

The Art Side of the Moon

WINNER: People’s Choice Award

Director: Kim Jean Ingles
Country: Australia

Overview:
As retired physicist, Dr Samuel Peralta, aims to preserve the most diverse collection of contemporary art on the Moon, a visual artist in Australia, Margaret Ingles, finds herself part of an historic venture. The world waits anxiously as mission control loses communications.

Koroitj – TOWER HILL

WINNER: SFC Films Award

Director: Martin Stringer
Country: Australia

Overview:
On the windswept coast of Eastern Maar Country, Tower Hill (Koroitj) stands as a place where geology, culture and ecology are deeply interconnected. Support the feature legnth project of this film at Documentary Australia