Six films will contend this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary.
Director Jennifer Peedom is set to re-team with her 'Mountain' collaborators, the ACO's Richard Tognetti and writer Robert Macfarlene, on new a theatrical documentary, 'River'.
Producer John Smithson has worked with some of the best documentary filmmakers around, from Kevin Macdonald to James Marsh.
The Australian International Documentary Conference has confirmed that John Smithson - producer of Touching the Void, 127 Hours and Sherpa - will attend AIDC 2016.