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.
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.
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.
Phil Craig is departing as chief creative officer of Discovery Networks International (DNI) just eight months after joining from the ABC.