You may remember, from reading these very news pages, that one of our Pepsi Short Film Video Contest Winners also won the Sydney Tropfest Short Film Festival. Well now you can see Abe Forsythe’s winning entry online.

Abe’s You Tube channel also has links to his winning MOFILM video ‘GPS’ and his independent feature ‘Ned’ so check it out.

Matt and Abe receive their award from Jon Landau

We’ve just given them our Grand Prize in Barcelona, but Pepsi Short Film Video Competition winners Abe Forsythe and Matt Reeder are possibly set for even greater glory this weekend.

The pair are in the final of the Movie Extra Tropfest short film festival in Sydney this weekend. The grand Australian festival is visited by 120,000 people all over the country and features sixteen finalists. Here’s good luck to you, Abe and Matt.

See Abe and Matt’s winning MOFILM video here.

Pia Andersen, star of 'Perfect Peaches' and director Morgan Christie

Some of them came from Sweden, some of them came from Australia, some of them came from half a mile down the road, but all of the MOFILM winners were happy to be at the Opium Cinema in Barcelona for their big awards night on Monday.

What a night it was. Our winners were first treated to champagne and wine in the VIP area, where they all got to mingle with MOFILM guests and with Avatar producer Jon Landau. They then got their time on the stage, receiving awards from the MOFILM founders and watching their films on the big screen for the first time.

Asa Thibodaux ‘Dad’s Connected’ and Mitchell Winkie ‘Para Su Salud’

Excitement was in evidence. Example, from Keith Rivers, co-producer of winning short film ‘A Dollar Well Spent’: “This experience has been really genuine. I’ve met a bunch of talented people all in one room and we’re all talking about what we love to do. I really think this is the next wave of advertising. It’s got integrity.”

Matt Marsh, creator of ‘Choose Not to Fall’ added: “It’s been brilliant. There’s been a buzz about MOFILM – it gets people to actually go out and do something. I really hope I get the chance to do another one. It’s good to get encouragement and know it’s not all in vain.”

Christian Jenkins holds up the star of ‘A Dollar Well Spent’ with Manuel Dominguez of ‘Chevrolet – Spark’

And Mitchell Winkie, our 17-year-old maker of ‘Para Su Salud’, said: “I feel exhilaration and fear. I’m surrounded by some very talented people who have all been really nice to me. I submitted my film on a whim and never thought I’d get through.”

We’ll be posting video from the event shortly, so keep an eye out for that.