Screening Room

The 2010 OFF Award for Best Film went to German documentary NOBODY’S PERFECT.

The judging panel comprised Academy Award winning filmmaker & OFF Patron Adam Elliot; WA-based filmmaker with less than 3% vision, Tony Sarre; Churchill Fellow and deaf filmmaker Sarah Tracton; and one-eyed Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence.

NOBODY’S PERFECT

According to judge Tony Sarre, NOBODY’S PERFECT was chosen because “firstly, it is highly entertaining. Secondly, it takes a risky, uncompromising and defiant look at disability.

“The film is about people affected by Thalidomide being persuaded by the director to pose naked for a calendar, and then going through with it. The film shows how this experience changes the participants’ perceptions of themselves as well as the viewers’ perception of their disability.

“By stripping and posing naked, the participants are confronted with their own insecurities. The film makes a strong statement about society’s acceptance of a person’s disability by showing people with a disability taking control of their own body image. There is a gesture of power in stripping naked and hiding nothing – you are saying to the world ‘Take me as I am!’

“For me, the other strong contenders were SHINING STAR, THREE OF US and WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE MY MOTHER, as well as of course Hilary Scarl’s SEE WHAT I’M SAYING.”