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Penny Chapman wins IF Award for Contribution to TV

My Place producer Penny Chapman pipped a strong field of contenders for one of two new TV awards at the IF Awards.

Producer Penny Chapman was awarded the inaugural IF Award for Contribution to TV at last night’s Inside Film Awards in Sydney.

Chapman pipped a strong field of contenders for the new award including Andrew Denton, Rob Sitch, Brian Walsh, John Edwards, Steve Vizard, Posie Graeme-Evans, Kim Williams, Hal McElroy, and joint nominee Mark and Carl Fennessy.

With a career spanning 25 years, Chapman’s body of work includes Heartland, Brides of Christ, Blue Murder, RAN: Remote Area Nurse, My Place and the forthcoming The Slap.

The award was one of two new television industry awards added to the annual film awards.

The new Out of the Box Award, to recognise an emerging talent who is likely to make the jump to the big screen in the future was won by Ryan Corr (Packed to the Rafters). He bettered Hugo Johnstone Burt, Firass Dirani, Katherine Hicks, Eva Lazzaro and Richard Davies in a category voted by the public.

TV actors also went home with film awards including Ben Mendelsohn and Caitlin Stasey, with the latter a surprise win over Jacki Weaver as Best Actress.

The Living Legend IF Award was presented to Bryan Brown.

The Inside Film Awards will be broadcast 10pm Wednesday 24th November on SBS ONE and 5:50pm Sunday 28th November on showcase.

4 Responses

  1. @dave, it’s always sad when something you care about and have worked very hard at isn’t treated the same by others … though I’m hoping the best years of the ABC aren’t behind us. You obviously haven’t lost the TV bug though!

  2. Thankyou Trix, I appreciate my comment being recognized, I am aware I may sound like an agrieved former employee, I guess I am. She certainly left her mark on the organisation. I was fortunate to have been part of the great ABC at the tail end of its heyday, and very proud to have worked there for 20 years. Yeh, I just wish some people hadn’t deemed it broke, therefore compelled to ‘fix’ it.

  3. @dave, agree with your comments, and it’s a shame that a creative allowed herself to be placed in a political decision and enforce budget slashes that ensued for several terms of that government.

  4. I have very mixed feelings about Ms Chapman, She has created some wonderful Australian drama, but she also was in the chair at the ABC, as they deconstructed it post 1996 election and major cuts by the Howard Govt. For me this was the beginning of the end.

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