Ahead of his spotlight session at next month's Australian International Documentary Conference, Mstyslav Chernov, director of the Oscar-nominated '20 Days in Mariupol', talks to IF about working in a conflict zone, and the differences between news and documentary storytelling, both in terms of craft and impact on the audience.
VICE and Screen Australia have announced director Isaac Elliott and producer Lucy Knox's Burlesque Blokes as the winner of their joint annual pitching comp, Pitch Australiana, held at AIDC earlier this month.
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has opened applications for its ACCESS early career program, with 'Casting JonBenet' and 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' director Kitty Green to be among the mentors.
"Volcanoes are such a perfect metaphor for love." Sara Dosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated 'Fire of Love' and AIDC keynote speaker, talks to IF.
When Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen set out to make animated documentary 'Flee', the story of an old school friend Amin Nawabi, he envisioned it as a small project - perhaps a 20-30 minute short. Now it's nominated for three Oscars.
“The thing I have been doing with my career is to go to those overlooked stories and lift them up, so we may be able to pass them on to the next generation.”
New Screen Australia CEO Deirdre Brennan gave an early indication of her goals for the agency on day two of the Australian International Documentary Conference, including a mantra to "put the audience at the heart of everything we do".
Two projects have been announced as joint winners of the New Perspectives Pitch Lab, with the teams from feature documentary Joy and First Nations-led documentary series Our Country to participate in pitching opportunities at the 2022 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).