NITV has taken Pink Pepper's 'Our Law' to a full series commission, while also ordering Purskey Productions and No Coincidence Media's 'Larapinta'.
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.
Two distinctly Australian stories have taken out the top prizes at the inaugural AIDC Awards, with Daniel Gordon's 'The Australian Dream' and Southern Pictures' 'Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian' awarded Best Feature Documentary and Best Documentary/Factual Series, respectively.
Pursekey Productions director and principal producer Michaela Perske is the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Stanley Hawes Award recipient for 2021.
In feature documentary 'Girls Can't Surf', director Christopher Nelius tells the story of how a "ragtag bunch of inspired, punk girls" who took on the male-dominated sport of professional surfing in order to achieve equality.
With Melbourne cinemas closed and most of those still in operation averaging capacities of 10 - 20 per cent, Madman Entertainment sensibly has decided to release Stephen Johnson's 'High Ground' next year.