Some 11 short documentaries about climate and environmental solutions will screen on the ABC next year after being backed via the Your Planet initiative.
The creatives behind the selected projects, which span mixed media and feature documentary, will join the global Doc Society team for a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship starting next month.
With the ABC looking to ramp up its natural history slate from next year, it has partnered with Doc Society to support early career filmmakers to create short-form documentaries focussing on solutions to climate and environmental challenges.
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).
The projects and participants for the second New Perspectives Pitch Lab have been unveiled, with sessions for the training initiative to commence this week.
The Australian International Documentary Conference will welcome back in-person attendance while retaining online components for next year's event, which will carry the theme of Bearing Witness.
Doc Society and AIDC have revealed the six projects that will take part in a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship starting this month.
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.