In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.
Australian films are experiencing a resurgence in cinemas this year, raking in $21.7 million through April 20.
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.
That Sugar Film director Damon Gameau is set to headline Tropfest Roughcut for 2015.
Actor Damon Gameau has put his body through the wringer for That Sugar Film, a documentary that explores the effect of sugar on physical and mental health.
Documentary Australia is set to introduce online community screening resource DocAccess, nearly five years after the initiative was funded by Screenrights.
Five Australian documentaries have been selected to screen at the 27th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), held 19–30 November.
That Sugar Film takes more than $1.6million at the Australian box office.