Press release from Amanda Werner PR & Communications
Elizabeth Tadic is the first winner of the F4 Award for Outstanding New Documentary Talent for her film Umoja: Where Women Run Wild.
The announcement was made today at the 2010 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) currently being held in Adelaide. F4, the inaugural First Factual Films Festival has been presented in conjunction with AIDC.
Tadic’s documentary was chosen out of seven films which had been selected as finalists for showing at F4. Around 80 entries had been received from first-time documentary makers.
Drive, directed by Telen Rodwell and Bronwyn Purvis received a ‘special mention’.
The judging panel consisted of F4 Jury President – Richard Sowada, Head of Film Programs ACMI (AUS) and F4 Jury Members – Edwina Waddy, Development Producer ABC TV (AUS); Flora Gregory, Editor Witness Al Jazeera English (UK); Esther van Messel, CEO First Hand Films (CHE); and Tom Zubrycki, Documentary Filmmaker (AUS).
F4 Jury President – Richard Sowada says, “What was impressive first-up was the high quality of all the works. And for early career filmmakers that's a genuine cause for celebration as to the future of oz documentary filmmaking. The vigorous discussion around the final two films – Telen Rodwell and Bronwyn Purvis (Drive) and Elizabeth Tadic (Umoja) had its „12 Angry Men‟ moments, and though we would have dearly loved to award both, Umoja won the day. Very accomplished and finely tuned storytelling. Both were great and obviously personal achievements.”