Josh Hauser's 'Dancing on Water' and Rebeckah Howson's 'Death Rites' are the inaugural winners of SAE Creative Media Institute's Uncovered documentary competition.
Amid plans to accelerate the development of its slate of social impact projects, Minderoo Pictures has hired Amanda Clarke as a development producer and Lata Periakarpan as a production and development assistant.
Film students from SAE Creative Institute will have the opportunity to receive mentoring from the likes of Minderoo Pictures executive director Malinda Wink and ABC documentaries manager Stephen Oliver as part of new documentary competition, Uncovered.
Doc Society global director of Good Pitch Malinda Wink is set to join Minderoo Pictures as executive director.
With the ABC looking to ramp up its natural history slate from next year, it has partnered with Doc Society to support early career filmmakers to create short-form documentaries focussing on solutions to climate and environmental challenges.
Screenworks has revealed the final round of speakers and sessions for the upcoming Regional to Global Screen Forum, with Stan head of scripted Amanda Duthie, Netflix creative executive Susie Jones, and Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer Tracey Vieira among the new additions to the line-up
Two projects have been announced as joint winners of the New Perspectives Pitch Lab, with the teams from feature documentary Joy and First Nations-led documentary series Our Country to participate in pitching opportunities at the 2022 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
The projects and participants for the second New Perspectives Pitch Lab have been unveiled, with sessions for the training initiative to commence this week.