Screenwest has named Brooke Silcox and Mat de Koning's '29 Years Eight Days' and Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel's 'Laura's Choice' the joint recipients of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award.
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.
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.
Writer-director Antony Webb and producer Jaclyn Hewer's 'Carmentis' has won the $5,000 CinefestOz Short Film Prize.
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.
"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."
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.
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.