Screen Australia has released the final guidelines for its new suite of documentary programs, sparking a wave of criticism that little has changed since the draft guidelines were published in September
The Emerging Doco-makers Network of Australia is calling for entries for an inaugural workshop, which will see an industry panel headed by Australian filmmaker Tom Zubrycki give advice on five selected documentaries.
Producers of narrative features and feature documentaries fear that reducing the Producer Offset for films to 30 per cent will have a devastating impact on theatrical releases.
After 45 years as a documentary filmmaker, Pat Fiske has some simple advice for aspiring practitioners: "Have many strings to your bow if you want to survive."
The Australian Directors Guild has announced the recipients of
the three non-competitive ADG awards for 2008: Bruce Petty will receive
the ADG Outstanding Achievement Award; Tom Zubrycki will receive the
Cecil Holmes Award and Kate Woods will receive t
Screen Australia expects to support the same number of documentary projects each year despite the proposed scrapping of the Producer Equity Program (PEP).
Screen Australia has decided to postpone the introduction of the revised documentary programs from July 1 until 2021, to the dismay of some factual filmmakers who wanted the new regime to happen sooner.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous department is contributing $745,000 in production funding to four documentary projects including two for NITV and one for the ABC.