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Home APSA Nominees & Winners 2024 Best Youth Film Magic Beach

Magic Beach

Nomination Details

Ceremony Year 2024
Film
Magic Beach
Nomination category
Country
Director
Robert Connolly, Emma Kelly, Susan Danta, Lee Whitmore, Anthony Lucas, Kathy Sarpi, Eddie White, Simon Rippingale, Pierce Davison, Marieka Walsh, Susie Shapones, Jake Duczynski
Producer
Liz Kearney, Chloé Brugalé, Kate Laurie, Robert Connolly

Nomination Detail

After reading the iconic book by Alison Lester, nine children (and one dog) find themselves on the titular Magic Beach. They explore caves, build giant sandcastles, poke around rock pools and converse with sea creatures. This is where their animated imaginations begin – James dives with horses in the waves, sandcastles are built and destroyed in terrible wars,
pirates smuggle treasure into caves, and dreamtime serpents fly through the sky and shed their scales. The dreams of these children are limitless and reflect the uninhibited nature of being a child at the beach.

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