Matthew Walker's portrait of enigmatic country music performer, Wanita Bahtiyar, took out Best Feature Documentary at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Awards on Wednesday.
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed the nominees for next month's awards, while announcing screen journalist David Tiley as the winner of the Stanley Hawes Award for 2022.
When Matthew Walker travelled to Tamworth in 2014 to film short 'Heart of the Queen', he knew little of the queen in question. What began as a four-day shoot transformed into a five-year journey dedicated to the story of enigmatic country music performer, Wanita Bahtiyar.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has won this year's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize for 'There Is No Evil', beating out 11 other Sydney Film Festival (SFF) competition films.
Sydney Film Festival has announced the films to compete for the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) Award for Australian Documentary, with a 12-strong line-up to mark the prize's 12th anniversary.
Six films are set to vie for this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary, with voting for the winner open from today until August 2.
Matthew Walker's 'I'm Wanita' is the story of a chaotic, flamboyant force of nature - Wanita Bahtiyar - and her lifelong odyssey to realise her childhood dream; sometimes at the cost of those dearest to her.
Jen Peedom's 'River' and Ben Lawrence's 'Ithaka' add to the already strong contingent of local films bound for August's Melbourne International Film Festival, which unveiled its full program today.