Tired of working business hours in a job he wasn't satisfied with, the Croydon South resident left his office in November to pursue his dreams in film.

A month later, with no formal training in the industry, Kisielnicki received the Best Cinematography Award in the statewide 48 Hour Film Project, which was screened at the BMW Edge amphitheatre at Federation Square.

"When I went up to receive the award I couldn't believe it. It's my first trophy since under-16 cricket. In a nine-to-five desk job you don't reach those emotions or sense of accomplishment."

Kisielnicki was lucky to be a part of the 48 Hour Film Project. He stumbled across the competition on the internet and a team who needed a cameraman, just three days before it was scheduled to begin.

Kisielnicki said while he had worked previously on the local music scene, shooting band film clips, the film project was "challenging" with the team having to write, shoot, edit and score a short film in 48 hours.

He said the team also had to incorporate an assigned character, props, lines of dialogue and a genre into their movie Forever More to qualify.

"We clicked together really well and it was a massive weekend of compromise, arguments and me pretending to know what I was doing.

"It was an amazing experience which was made even more special because it happened so quickly and out of the blue."

His teammates also raked in the awards and beat the other 38 film teams to take out the Best Editing and Best Use of Prop awards.

Kisielnicki received camera equipment hire valued at $3000 as part of his prize and said he wanted to develop his own feature-length film during a trip around the world, which begins in March.