Bird in the Wire played in over 100 festivals across 50 countries and was the first short film to go viral on the internet due in part because of its brevity and lack of dialogue. It also played a theatrical season for 4 months in cinema’s across Australia. The 1 minute film was picked up by 4 distributors including 3 online distributors in the US, Europe and Australia.

Here are a selection of key awards and festivals.

2001 - Festival de Cannes, nominated Best Shortfilm

2001 – AFI Award, Best Cinematogr. in a Non-feature Film

2001 - Australian Cinematographers Society Awards

2001 - Tiburon International Film Festival, USA

2001 - Venice International Film Festival; IT

2001 - Sao Paulo International Film Festiva, BRA

2001 – Aspen Shortsfest, USA

2001 – Tampere International Short Film Festival, FIN

2001 - Uppsala International Short Film Festival, SWE

2001 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, CZE

2001 – Interfilm Berlin

2000 – Flickerfest Int. Short Film Festival, Best Kurzfilm

2000 - Best Picture – Cinema Sprints 2000

2000 - Best Film – NESCAFE short film awards