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The South Australian Screen Awards (SASA) celebrate South Australia’s best screen works.

 

Celebrating and promoting the finest screen works from South Australia’s film industry, the South Australian Screen Awards have been held annually for over two decades.

The South Australian Screen Awards (SASA) are the local screen industry’s night of nights – a high-profile celebration of new talent, creative excellence, and career achievement. SASA provides a vital platform for South Australian screen practitioners to showcase their work across drama, comedy, documentary, animation, music video, and web series, shining a spotlight on the bold and diverse voices shaping our state’s screen future.

Our awards are generously supported by our sponsors including South Australian Film Corporation, KOJO, ProAV Solutions, Flinders University, Peter Hanlon and the Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship, Greenhills Animation, UrbanCine, Heesom Casting, Buckland and Gun, CrewHQ, State Theatre Company South Australia, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Australian Writers’ Guild SA, Australian Screen Editors, Academy of Interactive Entertainment, Australian Cinematographers Society, Australian Screen Sound Guild, Adelaide University, Picture Hire, Adelaide Film Festival, Channel 44, UNESCO Adelaide City of Music, Lush, Rising Sun Pictures, Jam Factory, Reconciliation SA, Adelaide Arcade and Loophole Brewing.

 

The Mercury now celebrates our 2025 SASA award recipients.

View: SASA Award Recipients

View: SASA 2025 Nominees

 

2025 CATEGORIES

GENRE CATEGORIES

BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Boy on Fire
Sponsored by Picture Hire

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Unsung: Beyond the Board
Sponsored by Academy of Interactive Entertainment

BEST ANIMATION
Wishes: Windows & Nests
Sponsored by Greenhills Animation

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Guttercat
Sponsored by Peter Hanlon

FORMAT CATEGORIES

GRAND JURY PRIZE (BEST SHORT)
I’m The Most Racist Person I Know
Sponsored by South Australian Film Corporation

BEST WEB SERIES
Bloom
Sponsored by Adelaide University

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Avalon Kane – The Only One Who Knows Me Is Me
Sponsored by UNESCO Adelaide City of Music

BEST STUDENT WORK
Fruit
Sponsored by Flinders University

BEST FIRST NATIONS WORK
The Secret
Sponsored by Reconciliation SA

AUDIENCE AWARD
Unsung: Beyond The Board
Sponsored by Loophole Brewing Co

CRAFT CATEGORIES

BEST MUSIC COMPOSITION
I’m The Most Racist Person I Know composition by Leigh Marsh
Sponsored by Australian Guild of Screen Composers, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

BEST SOUND DESIGN
The Hitcher sound design by Anthony Cavalieri
Sponsored by Australian Screen Sound Guild

BEST EDITING
Edith edited by Nicholas Koulianos
Sponsored by Australian Screen Editors

BEST SCREENPLAY
The Knight script by Lotte Sweeney & Maiah Stewardson
Sponsored by Australian Writers Guild SA

BEST COSTUME
With Love, Lottie costume design by Victoria Arvanitakis
Sponsored by Adelaide Arcade

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
With Love, Lottie hair and makeup design by Alex Jevons
Sponsored by LUSH

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Tunnel Vision production design by Catherine Frances
Sponsored by JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design Inc

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Hitcher cinematography by Emerson Hoskin
Sponsored by Urban Cine & Australian Cinematographers Society

BEST PERFORMANCE
Isadora Sweeney in The Knight
Sponsored by Heesom Casting & State Theatre Company of South Australia

BEST ENSEMBLE
Rhys Griffins and Luke Wiltshire for Boyish
Sponsored by Buckland & Gun

BEST DIRECTING
I’m The Most Racist Person I Know directed by Leela Varghese
Sponsored by CrewHQ

BEST VFX
Dragging the Chain VFX by Ken Mai
Sponsored by Rising Sun Pictures

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES

BEST EMERGING FIRST NATIONS SCREEN PRACTITIONER
Pearl Berry
Sponsored by South Australian Film Corporation

BEST EMERGING PRODUCER
Jasmine J Leech
Sponsored by C44

THE MERCURY RISING AWARD
Jack Langford
Sponsored by Adelaide Film Festival, The Mercury & ProAV Solutions

THE MERCURY LEGEND AWARD
Tania Nehme
Sponsored by Adelaide Film Festival & The Mercury

For more information, please email sasa@themercury.org.au.

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