'Ithaka' producer Gabriel Shipton will join international speakers Shori Ito, Shane Boris, and Elizabeth Klinck at next year's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), which will carry the theme of Future Telling.
Six films will contend this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary.
When producer Gabriel Shipton went to visit his brother, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the UK's Belmarsh prison in August 2019, he walked away not knowing if it would be the final time they would see each other.
Ben Lawrence's feature documentary 'Ithaka' follows Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, as he fights to free his son.
A trio of music icons and a legendary racehorse are among the subjects of eight projects to receive $2.3 million in documentary production funding from Screen Australia.