There is confidence within the documentary sector that its concerns about the genre's omission from last year's streaming regulation models have been heard ahead of the legislation's introduction to parliament.
Ahead of next week's Australian International Documentary Conference, IF spoke with both local and international decision makers about the current documentary and factual landscape, and the types of projects they're interested in.
Documentary Australia has selected the inaugural participants of its Impact Producer program, with four professionals to undertake specialised training in creating campaigns related to social impact documentaries.
Documentary web series 'Voices of the River' follows 10 Traditional Owners fighting to protect the Martuwarra Fitzroy River from large-scale water extraction.
“We spent a lot of time getting to know leaders, elders and a lot of the different communities and language groups. They saw us coming back over and over, pursuing questioning around the issues that were coming up in their meetings, explaining that we wanted to bring these discussions to a broader audience – that’s what really won people over to work with us.
"Especially with remote communities or even young people that aren't watching television so much - you've got to take the films to them and you've got to reach them on the media they're using."