Doc Society and AIDC are inviting applications for a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship set to begin in October.
Documentary filmmaker, editor, and cinematographer Daniel King will start an eight-month placement with the ABC and Northern Pictures this month after being announced as the inaugural recipient of the Indigenous Documentary Placement.
The Aussie director of 'Quincy', Al Hicks, and Sundance Film Festival programmer Ania Trzebiatowska are some of the early guests announced for AIDC and Screenworks' Regionality event in June.
As the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) heads into its 35th year, Natasha Gadd has been promoted by the board to CEO/creative director, succeeding Alice Burgin.
"But as we progressed and she became more determined, Sam and I started to realise this was much bigger than mum's story and had a far greater reach."
The Documentary Australia Foundation is urging the Federal Government to treat documentary distinctly from drama as it proceeds with reform to the Producer Offset.
“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.”
In making her Academy Award-shortlisted documentary 'Dick Johnson is Dead', Kirsten Johnson was keen to ask questions of what cinema can do.