Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin's 'Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra' has taken out best arts program at this year's Rose d’Or Awards, continuing a stellar awards run for the pair.
Australia has five nominees across four categories for this year's Rose d’Or Awards, which will be presented in a virtual ceremony at the end of this month.
Sydney Film Festival has announced the films to compete for the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) Award for Australian Documentary, with a 12-strong line-up to mark the prize's 12th anniversary.
SBS's documentary strand 'Australia Uncovered', a series of eight stand-alone projects that tackle some of the biggest issues in Australia today, will begin airing Sundays from September 12.
The AACTA-nominated 'Strong Female Lead', directed by Tosca Looby and produced by Karina Holden, explores the gender politics during Julia Gillard’s term as Australia’s first and still only female Prime Minister.
Six films are set to vie for this year's AACTA Award for Best Documentary, with voting for the winner open from today until August 2.
Fourteen documentary projects - spanning a feature film about Shane Warne, a VR project that traverses the historical expedition of Ernest Shackleton, to a short about Australia's femme and butch scene in the 1950s - will share in $2.1 million of production funding from Screen Australia.