The Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced its program for 2008, which will include five Australian projects - two international premieres and three European premieres.
Director Jennifer Peedom was awarded the $25,000 David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship at the Sydney Film Festival
Screen Australia will invest in seven documentaries including the second series of Go Back to Where You Came From
Producer Bridget Ikin sets off for Nepal next week to shoot a feature documentary knowing she has already scaled one mountain: a US studio has bought worldwide rights to Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain.
Writer-director Jennifer Peedom was in her tent at the base camp at Mount Everest when the avalanche struck last month, killing 16 Nepali guides.
A division of Universal Pictures will distribute Sherpa, Jen Peedom’s feature documentary which chronicles how the Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an avalanche killed 16 of their members.
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is calling for applications its its early career mentorship program, ACCESS@AIDC, to be held during the conference next March.
'David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema' is set to premiere on the ABC this year over three episodes, to be followed by a theatrical cut distributed by Transmission.