And the winners for 2010 are ...

Eleven-year-old Cara Thomas has taken out the Sustainability Victoria Award for Best Film at Future Shots 2010, along with two other major awards on the night.

Cara’s film Control Your Carbon Dioxides was named the best sustainability-themed film by a young Victorian at the December 15 awards night, held at ACMI Cinemas.

Cara spent hours painstakingly moulding and filming her claymation tale of the green, beret-wearing EnviroMan who refuses to be devastated by people’s overuse of CO₂.

Other films featured a talking can who desperately wants to be recycled, a raindrop whose mission is to be treated preciously by the school it lands in, and a moving documentary about a man whose dying wish is to be buried naturally (not cremated), encouraging a return to sustainable burial.

The 2010 Future Shots challenge received 103 entries and 26 finalists, whose films received a total of 2207 votes in the People's Choice Awards.

Take a look at all the shortlisted entries and winners here.

Faustina 'Fuzzy' Agolley and 2010 Future Shots winner, Cara Thomas.

 

All the finalists gather at the Future Shots 2010 awards night.