Philippa Bateman’s portrait of musicians Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, 'Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow', and Blackfella Films’ 'The Australian Wars' took home the top prizes at the Australian International Documentary Conference Awards.
How do you make documentary and factual content for social platforms that captures and holds attention? How do you condense big topics into 60 seconds? Oh, and is there a business model for this sort of content? These questions were among the conversation at AIDC.
VicScreen has used this year's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) to unveil a new initiatie designed to support Victorian factual producers, writers, and directors in creating high-end documentary series.
"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.
Naked Television managing director and AIDC keynote speaker Fatima Salaria discusses bringing "edginess, disruption and inquisitiveness" to docuseries.
IF caught up with some of the key decision makers attending AIDC, including POV, BBC Storyville, ARTE France and Sundance Film Festival, to find out what they're looking for.
The Australian International Documentary Conference has revealed that filmmaker and educator Cathy Henkel will receive this year's Stanley Hawes Award.
The full program is now available for Australia’s foremost event for the documentary and factual industry, returning to ACMI, Melbourne from 5-8 March 2023, with an online international marketplace 9-11 March 2023.