A Woodville student has used her own experience with cyber bullying to create an award-winning film.
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Georgia Cramp’s film Cyber won the Get Reel Top Ten Filmmakers’ Festival.
The 17-year-old was announced as the winner out of more than 1650 entries across Australia and New Zealand, at a finalist screening on Sunday, July 24 at the Ritz Cinema.
All funds raised from the finalist screening went to Suicide Prevention Australia.
Through the competition, filmmakers were asked to produce a movie of less than 10 minutes, shot entirely on a smart device.
Georgia’s piece follows the victims of cyber bullying, telling the story of how an attacker came to notice the words he had posted online had gone too far.
The film responded to the Get Reel competition theme of being seen by speaking out about the impact of cyber bullying and the damage it can have on youth.
The All Saints College, St Mary’s Campus HSC student said she has been through cyber bullying herself and so have a number of her friends.
She said it was great to see this issue acknowledged by her film winning the competition.
“I think its amazing to be giving the cyber bullying message a voice,” she said.
Through the film, Georgia said she wanted to change community attitude about online bullying.
“The competition is about making a difference to people’s attitudes about how we see each other and people in our community,” she said.
“Sometimes we just need to ask ‘how are you?’ To make a difference in someone's life.”
But winning the competition definitely came as a surprise to Georgia.
I think its amazing to be giving the cyber bullying message a voice.
- Georgia Cramp
“I really didn’t expect it,” she said.
Along with winning the Get Reel competition, Georgia received the Judges Award at the Reelise Film Festival for Cyber and first place for her film Li'are in the Focus on Ability film festival last year. As well as covering the Get Reel requirements, Cyber also magnificently addressed the theme of the Reelise festival, which was ‘took it too far.’
Li’are follows the story of a hearing impaired ballerina delivering a time-perfect performance.
Georgia has created three more films that set for release in the near future and eventually hopes to study film in New York.