NIDA and Prime Video have awarded Master of Fine Arts Directing student Nicole Puni and Master of Fine Arts Writing student Krishna Patel the $50,000 Prime Video Scholarships.
Ahead of next week's Australian International Documentary Conference, IF spoke with both local and international decision makers about the current documentary and factual landscape, and the types of projects they're interested in.
Documentary Australia has unveiled the recipients of this year's SheDoc grants, which are designed to support women working in key creative roles in the documentary sector.
Adelaide-based actor Mia Foran is the inaugural recipient of the AACTA Young Stars: National Youth Casting Call, beating out nine other young finalists to top the nationwide initiative.
Nearly 30 projects, including a new animated series from Ludo Studio, will benefit from more than $810,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia.
UK-based distributor DCD Rights has confirmed a string of pre-sales for the fourth season of New Zealand murder mystery drama 'My Life Is Murder' ahead of its official launch at the London Screenings.
'Bob Marley: One Love' was the only film to crack $1 million mark at the box office last weekend, with cinemas quiet ahead of Thursday's release of 'Dune: Part Two'.
At the Australian International Movie Convention late last year, filmmaker Christopher Amos noted there was one genre that seemed to be absent from the distributor presentations: documentary. The observation prompted him to acquire the Academy Award-nominated 'Four Daughters', due in cinemas this Thursday.