New Screen Australia documentary project funding at $200,000 and below will be provided as a grant, rather than as recoupable investment
Screen Australia boss Ruth Harley says the paucity of mid-range feature films being made without the agency's financial assistance remains an area of concern
The ABC has boosted its funding by $400,000 for young documentary makers via the triple j tv docs initiative
The South Australian Film Corporation has launched a Documentary Innovation Fund
The World Congress of Science and Factual Producers will head to Australia in December
The prestigious International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam has announced the selection of six Australian titles that reflect the diversity of Australian documentary filmmaking.
The home grown doco series Yarning Up continues to make a splash at film festivals internationally with two of the series' films being chosen to screen at the prestigious 9th Annual imagineNATIVE Film Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Canada from 15 to 19
Produced and directed by first time filmmaker Lara Damiani, Tibet's Cry for Freedom features exclusive interviews with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Prime Minister in exile and Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng.