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Peking Duk, Washington, Olympia & More Pick Up Awards At Clipped Music Video Festival

From over 400 submissions.

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Peking Duk, Washington, Olympia and more have all picked up awards for their video clips as part of the recent CLIPPED Music Video Festival

"There were over 400 submissions to this year’s awards, so the International judging panel really had their work cut out for them," shares CLIPPED Festival director Sam Bright

"Music videos are an art form in themselves and with all our winners, runners up and even nominees, we recognised a true dedication to the craft as well as a high level of creative output."


Peking Duk's Reprisal has scored the award for Best Narrative, Olympia has picked up Best Costume for Shoot To Forget, while Washington's Claws got Best Choreography and Guy Sebastian's Choir scored Best Cinematography. 

Check out the full list of winners below. 


BEST AUSTRALIAN VIDEO
Winner: Ivy-Jane Brown - Savannah (Director: Imogen McCluskey)

BEST NZ VIDEO
Winner: Leisure - Feeling Free (Director: Jason Bock)

BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO
Winner: Tambour - Orion (Director: Patrice Arsenault)

BEST AUSTRALIAN DIRECTOR
Winner: Lazy Colts - Be The One (Director: Suzanne Kim)

BEST NZ DIRECTOR
Winner: Finn Andrews - One By The Venom (Director: Alexander Gandar)

BEST EDITING
Winner: Beachwood - Miracle (Directors: Angeline Armstrong & Hayden Mustica, Editor: Emily Robb)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Guy Sebastian - Choir (Director: James Chappell, Cinematographer: Kieran Fiowler)

BEST ANIMATION
Winner: These Guy - Heaps (Animator: Helena Papageorgiou)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Winner: Washington - Claws (Directors: Nick Waterman & Megan Washington, Choreographer: Larissa MacGowan)


BEST COSTUME
Winner: Olympia - Shoot To Forget (Director: Leilani Croucher, Costume: Millie Sykes)

BEST COLOUR
Winner: Billy Fox - Let’s Be Honest (Director: Alex Campbell, Colourist: Jake Houstin Harris)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Creature Fear - Please Me (Director & Production Designer: Tim Eather)

BEST CONCEPT
Winner: Parker - Can’t Keep Waiting (Directors: Tash Parker & Jaymis Loveday)

BEST NARRATIVE
Winner: Peking Duk - Reprisal (Director: Ryan Sauer)

CLIPPED STAFF PICK
Winner: Kryder - Romani (Director: Julian Tuna)


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