Three documentary projects that participated in 2020’s New Perspectives Pitch Lab, hosted by AFTRS, Doc Society, AIDC and Screen NSW, will receive philanthropic development and production grants via the MaiTri Foundation's Story Program.
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.
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.
AFTRS, Doc Society, AIDC and Screen NSW have announced the social impact projects selected for the inaugural New Perspectives Pitch Lab.
AIDC will be held entirely online in 2021, with an early line-up of international speakers that includes Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson, and directors David France and Kirsten Johnson.