The Western Australia Screen Culture Awards, also known as the WA Screen Culture Awards or WASCAs, acknowledge innovation and contributions in a wide range of screen-related artistic areas, where the work was created in Western Australia or by West Australians.
The awards recognize outstanding innovation, independent spirit and contributions in the areas of contemporary short, feature and documentary filmmaking, television, computer games, VR, AR, gallery-based moving image, installations, projections and other intersections with screen and moving image forms, created in Western Australia, or by West Australians.
[1][2] The awards were launched, by the producers of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, under chairperson Richard Sowada, in 2020.
In 2021 filmmaker, screen industry advocate and previous WASCA winner, Ryan Hodgson, worked with Geographik, Squarepeg Home and Artcom Fabrication to create new trophies,[5] he stated[6] I wanted to use a local, sustainable material for the trophy, and I settled on a Western Australian hardwood because timber can be fashioned into things of great beauty or practical, hardwearing things.
That struck me as a good metaphorical fit for our local screen industry and its diverse and eclectic output.The awards night is held annually in December, and the awards are presented by the Revelation International Film Festival, with the first year book-ending the festival when it had to move from its regular spot in July because of the Covid pandemic.