Jumping for Joy at Tropfest

Dan Ilic jumps for joy on the black carpet.

The Tropfest short film festival is back in a big way and superstars turned out to support the founder John Polson as our snaps show : Rebecca Gibney, Mel Gibson ( pictured below with John Polson) and Simon Baker.
Winners of this year's prize were animators Spencer Susser and Daniel Cloud-Campos.
whose stop-frame animation with real clothing called Shi picked up the gong.

 

And well worth reading is Gary Maddox's article in the Sydney Morning Herald about some of the woes that bedeviled Tropfest. 

Given the recent background of the festival, it's remarkable that John Polson has been able to resurrect the popular event so quickly.