2019 Winners

Primary School Category

  • BLOODY MARY

    First - Bloody Mary

    BY JESSICA GERGER
    A community consultation on how to Re-Vamp Sunshine takes a turn for the spooky. Hmm, wonder if the vampires and werewolves had anything to do with that?

  • THE SCARY SECRET OF SUNSHINE HEIGHTS

    Second - The Scary Secret of Sunshine Heights

    BY SUNSHINE HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 5A MULTIMEDIA
    Five friends discover a secret buried long ago at their school. Is history repeating itself?

  • MONSTER SCHOOL

    Third - Monster School

    BY SUNSHINE HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL GRADE 6A MULTIMEDIA
    Don’t press strange buzzers on Halloween; otherwise, you might just raise the evil dead, and then you are going to be in so much trouble as these students find out.

Secondary School Category

  • MILK

    First - Milk

    BY CLANCY TATE
    Gotta check the expiration date on those milk containers. Dave doesn’t and see what happens to him!

  • KOOL WIZARDS

    Second - Kool Wizards

    BY ORLANDO CATTOGGIO AND SAMUEL ROBERG
    Orlando and Samuel take part in the Grand Wizards’ Challenge. Danger abounds. Will they get that very grand prize?

  • THE PATCH

    Third - The Patch

    BY JORDAN LENTINI
    Genelle and her father, John, love their veggie patch. Hell hath no fury when a dastardly villain attempts to step on their patch.

Open Category

  • THE STAREY BAMPIRE

    First - The Starey Bampire

    BY DANIEL FARMER AND ADAM BIGUM
    3-year-old Elvie Farmer has her very own take on a scary vampire story. Sunscreen!! Why has nobody thought of sunscreen before?

  • QUICK BITE

    Second - Quick Bite

    BY LUKE PYE, RON BROWN AND DREW DRAGO
    Sunshine gamer girl has a sweet day of gaming day planned, but when her Papa comes to visit plans change and so will your perception of Sunshine.

  • STRANGER THINGS

    Third - Stranger Encounters

    BY OLIVER CRAWFORD SMITH AND OLIVER BAILY
    In a dystopian future, renowned poet Teddy Brown shares two illuminating conversations, one with his chauffeur and the other with a wise bartender.

Judge’s Award

BEST FILM

The Starey Bampire by Daniel Farmer and Adam Bigum

FUNNIEST FILM

The Starey Bampire by Daniel Farmer and Adam Bigum

We Are Brimbank - Culture, Arts and Tourism Award 2019

SSFF became an award winning festival in 2019!

About The 2019 Theme

We were looking for comedy on a Halloween theme: scary comedy.

Ghost stories, stories of mystery and magic, of the bizarre and the imaginative.

We were particularly interested in stories from different cultures; folklore, myths and legend. Give Halloween a particularly Australian, multicultural spin.

2019 Prize Pool

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