After 45 years as a documentary filmmaker, Pat Fiske has some simple advice for aspiring practitioners: "Have many strings to your bow if you want to survive."
Non-Indigenous filmmakers who are keen to tackle Indigenous stories may want to attend the next session of Ozdox, the Australian Documentary Forum.
The challenges of making observational documentaries in Australia can be so daunting that some filmmakers may be afraid of tackling that genre.
After tackling children held in detention as the subject of her AFTRS graduate film, Blue Lucine is shooting a feature documentary on another controversial topic.
Before Struggle Street premiered on SBS, writer-producer Marc Radomsky expected some controversy from its depiction of the hard scrabble lives of the disadvantaged residents of Mount Druitt.
The Indiedoco campaign to save the single documentary has been supported by every major documentary organisation.
Most filmmakers are encouraged to identify and pursue the target audience for their work. Veteran documentary maker David MacDougall cheerfully disregards that maxim.
Following an outcry from Ozdox and the wider documentary community, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts has reinstated four documentary awards.