Magnus Temple is set to join Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier as a headline speaker at the 2016 Australian Interational Documentary Conference.
Temple, pioneer of the fixed camera observational documentary genre, will deliver a keynote at the premier event for the Asia-Pacific nonfiction screen content sector, which takes place at Melbourne’s ACMI from February 28 to March 2.
AIDC chief executive, Britt Arthur, said she was thrilled to have Temple at AIDC 2016.
"His much-loved, long-running formats prove there is an abiding fascination with the stories of real people,” she said.
Co-founder and chief executive of The Garden, Temple was a documentary director and series producer before founding Firefly, later re-named Dragonfly, with Nick Curwin in 2004.
The company became known for its distinctive factual programming and in particular the fixed-rig genre, pioneered with the BAFTA-nominated The Family and the BAFTA-winning One Born Every Minute.
Firefly was sold to Shine in 2007 and Magnus and Nick left in 2010.
Since setting up The Garden, Magnus' executive producer credits have included Perfume; 24 Hours in A&E, which won the RTS Award for Best Documentary Series; Seven Dwarves; Inside Claridge’s and the BAFTA-Nominated Keeping Britain Alive: One Day in the NHS.
Temple joins previously announced AIDC 2016 keynote speakers, American guests Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier, two of the acclaimed filmmakers behind the groundbreaking HBO documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Catfish.