Shark Island Institute is calling for applications for the new Shark Island Development Labs, a 12-month program for Australian documentary filmmakers with an investment of up to $25,000 per project.
Good Pitch Australia’s founder, moderator and chair Ian Darling was named Australia's leading philanthropist at the Philanthropy Australia Awards last week.
This year’s Good Pitch Australia event, held yesterday at the Sydney Opera House, saw $6.6 million in philanthropic funds pledged towards six documentaries and their social impact campaigns.
While this year marks the last Good Pitch Australia event, the Shark Island Institute has stumped up $2 million to fund the organisation’s operations over the next five years.
In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.
Thanks to the kindness of strangers, Richard Todd’s feature documentary which investigates the impact of the coal seam gas industry on residents' health and food and water resources will get a long and wide exposure around Australia.
The world's leading forum for social impact documentary coming to Australia for the first time at the Sydney Opera House, 8 October 2014.
A reminder for all filmmakers that submissions for GOOD PITCH2 AUSTRALIA - the international forum for social impact documentaries – close on April 11.