AFI award feature film contenders revealed

The contenders for the 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards have been revealed. In the feature film category, 19 pictures will compete for nominations (and ultimately the top prize). Samson and Delilah was named Best Film by the AFI in 2009.

Check out the worthy films below:

FEATURE FILM CONTENDERS

Accidents Happen
Animal Kingdom
Beneath Hill 60
Blame
The Boys Are Back
Bran Nue Dae
Bright Star
Daybreakers
The Horseman
I Love You Too
Lou
The Loved Ones
Matching Jack
Mother Fish
Subdivision
Tomorrow When The War Began
The Tree
The Tumbler
The Waiting City

AFI AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

Contact. Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Inside The Firestorm. Lucy Maclaren, Alex West
The Snowman. Rachel Landers, Dylan Blowen
Strange Birds In Paradise – A West Papuan Story. Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry

AFI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT ANIMATION

The Lost Thing. Sophie Byrne, Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
Zero. Christine Kezelos, Christopher Kezelos

AFI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FICTION FILM

Deeper Than Yesterday. Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler,
Anna Kojevnikov, Ariel Kleiman
The Kiss. Sonya Humphrey, Ashlee Page
The Love Song Of Iskra Prufrock. Lyn Norfor, Lucy Gaffy
Suburbia. Richard Halsted, Antonio Oreña-Barlin

Discuss: OK, so Animal Kingdom surely has Best Film in the bag. But which films are worthy of “competing” against it in the same category?