Producer Bridget Ikin sets off for Nepal next week to shoot a feature documentary knowing she has already scaled one mountain: a US studio has bought worldwide rights to Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain.
Felix Media will be the first screen-based business to move into Carriageworks, the multi-media arts precinct in inner Sydney.
Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man, Simon Stone’s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom’s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
A division of Universal Pictures will distribute Sherpa, Jen Peedom’s feature documentary which chronicles how the Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an avalanche killed 16 of their members.
Lisa Nichol's Wide Open Sky has won the Foxtel Movies Audience award for best documentary feature at the Sydney Film Festival.
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.
This is a golden era for Australian feature documentaries as typified by the five critically-acclaimed titles in contention for the best feature doc prize at the fifth Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Jennifer Peedom’s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong’s Women He’s Undressed will screen at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival next month.