Angie at the 22nd WA Screen Awards

Evangeline Than was volunteer, guest, and award-recipient-in-training at this year's WASAs. (She's also a student of Diploma of Screen & Media - Animation at FTI.) Read her blog about WA screen's night of nights. For the full version of this entry - and many others - visit her website, evangelinethan.com.

I was fortunate enough to attend the 22nd West Australian Screen Awards on Saturday night. Actually, my entrée to this glistering event was due more to sweat than luck: I volunteered to be a runner on the day, in the hope that I would be able to watch some of the ceremony while performing my duties.

So I ran errands in and out of the Octagon theatre, got soaked cleaning filthy 40-gallon drums that would be reborn as golden cocktail tables, and did some speed-typing on a Macbook (why is there no right mouse button, Apple? WHY?)

At the end of it all (including some exciting last-minute wrist-banding duties), I had a shiny WASA ticket (RRP $70, including two hours of free booze and finger food) in my grubby little hand, and scrubbed up to watch the ceremony.

In the last-minute fracas before the show started, I also got to meet Diana Warnock, a gracious and charmingly un-snobby lady, who would present the Bill Warnock Award to Meg Shields later that evening. She looked very glamorous in a black and purple ensemble that she said she had just "thrown together". I can only pray that I will look that good in a few years.

The show's opener was a slick musical act by Matt Lovkis (I later discovered that my partner had been on a radio show with him once-Perth is a small town indeed!) and Ash Gibson-Greig. Matt and Ash also closed the ceremony with a number that I thought was a little risqué-boys have been beaten up behind the bike shed for less-but the audience were in good spirits, so all's well that ends well.

Here are Shani (in the right hand pic) and I posing in the picture area. Just practising for next year (we can dream, can't we?)