It's been two years since Maya Newell, Sophie Hyde, Larissa Behrendt, Alex Kelly, Rachel Naŋinaaq Edwardson and Lisa Sherrard came together to form the Unquiet Collective, a group designed to help others bridge the gap between a film’s distribution and its wider social impact.
The Australian International Documentary Conference has revealed that filmmaker and educator Cathy Henkel will receive this year's Stanley Hawes Award.
Karl Malakunas’ Delikado and Maya Newell's The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone have made it onto the shortlists for this year's International Documentary Association (IDA) Documentary Awards, announced as the sole Australian entries in the feature and short categories, respectively.
Georgie Stone hopes the short documentary about her life - 'The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone', which recently premiered at both Tribeca and Sydney film festivals - will be empowering for other trans people.
Del Kathryn Barton's debut feature 'Blaze', starring Simon Baker and Yael Stone, will make its world premiere at June's Tribeca Film Festival in the International Narrative Competition.
Screen Australia has announced $2 million in production funding for 11 documentary projects, seven through the Documentary Producer Program and four through the Commissioned Program.