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 ABC has updated its head of arts role, naming producer and director Edwina Throsby as managing editor of arts.
Voting for this year's AACTA Awards will look a little different, with the organisation to broaden the voting powers of general members and stagger voting rounds by category throughout the year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.