The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed the nominees for next month's awards, while announcing screen journalist David Tiley as the winner of the Stanley Hawes Award for 2022.
Filmmaker, journalist, and environmental activist, Jane Hammond, is the winner of the 2021 Brian Beaton Award, which will support her upcoming social impact documentary, Black Cockatoo Crisis.
The universal subject matter of Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel's documentary 'Laura's Choice' has been recognised by distributor Off The Fence, which has picked up the project for international sales.
"But as we progressed and she became more determined, Sam and I started to realise this was much bigger than mum's story and had a far greater reach."
Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel's assisted dying documentary Laura's Choice and Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe's sports biopic Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling form part of the Australian International Documentary Conference's public access program, which was unveiled on Wednesday.
Writer-director Antony Webb and producer Jaclyn Hewer's 'Carmentis' has won the $5,000 CinefestOz Short Film Prize.
After trying to find ways to reconfigure 'Airborne', a prescient thriller set during a mid-flight pandemic, Zak Hilditch has given up, conceding COVID-19 is far more lethal and scarier than the scenario he envisaged.
Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel's documentary 'Laura's Choice' has taken home both the Doc Edge Pitch Prize and the inaugural Hot Docs Prize from last week's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Melbourne.