The creatives behind the selected projects, which span mixed media and feature documentary, will join the global Doc Society team for a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship starting next month.
The shortlist of 13 projects will have the opportunity to present their work to a mix of funders, broadcasters, streamers, sales agents, and distributors at the March conference.
Kodie Bedford, Debbie Carmody, Jub Clerc, Kelli Cross, Karla Hart, Chantelle Murray, Ngaire Pigram and Mitch Torres are the eight writer-directors who will helm 'RED', the feature anthology from Pink Pepper, Ramu Productions and Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, which will explore the theme of missing Indigenous women.
Together with Pink Pepper Productions, Ramu Productions and Kiwi company Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, Screenwest has launched an initiative that will see eight Western Australian Indigenous female writer-directors develop an anthology feature film that will explore the impact of missing Indigenous women from a female Aboriginal perspective.