The Home Song Stories, The Jammed and Happy Feet were the three films that went home with the most honours from the Inside Film (IF) Awards, held tonight on Queensland's Gold Coast.

The self-financed film The Jammed won best film, and best script for writer-director Dee McLachlan, while The Home Song Stories won the most awards including best director for Tony Ayres, and best actor awards for Joel Lok and Joan Chen.

The Jammed is a tough story about sex slavery that spawned a new distribution company because none of the country's existing distributors would pick up the film.

The Home Song Stories tells of the Ayres family's first few years in Australia: Lok was only 11 years old when he played the role of Tony Ayres, and Chen played his mother.

Happy Feet won the box office acheivement award and its director George Miller won the living legend award.

The Adelaide Film Festival won the film festival award.

Best Feature Film
Producers Sally Ayre-Smith, Andrea Buck, Dee McLachlan; Director, Dee McLachlan, The Jammed

Director
Tony Ayres, The Home Song Stories

Actor
Joel Lok, The Home Song Stories

Actress
Joan Chen, The Home Song Stories

Cinematography
Nigel Bluck, The Home Song Stories

Music
Grant Innes McLachlan, The Jammed

Script
Dee McLachlan, The Jammed

Short Film
Nana: Producer Kath Shelper; Director Warwick Thornton.

Short Animation
The Goat That Ate Time: Director/Producer Lucinda Schreiber,

Short Documentary
The Nigger Lovers: producers Stephen Hagan, Daryl Sparkes; Director Rhonda Hagan,

Documentary
Unlikely Travellers: Producers John Hart, Michael Noonan, Director Michael Noonan.

Music Video
God Told Me To by Paul Kelly: Natasha Pincus

Production Design
Melinda Doring, The Home Song Stories

Editing
Geoff Hitchins, Noise

Sound
Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen, Phillipe Decrausaz, Noise

Independent Spirit Award
Julian Shaw: Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

Rising Talent Award
Bonnie Elliott

Best Unproduced Screenplay
Luke Preston: The Adventures of Abigail Storm

Living Legend Award
George Miller

Box Office Achievement
Happy Feet: Producers, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller

Festival of Year
Adelaide Film Festival

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