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AUSTRALIAN 1-4 MARCH 2020 INTERNATIONAL STATE LIBRARY DOCUMENTARY VICTORIA CONFERENCE MELBOURNE WELCOME04 AIDC DELEGATE HUB07 SCREENRIGHTS INDUSTRY LOUNGE09 LEADING LIGHTS10 ACCESS11 15 01 THE FACTORY SPECIAL PITCHES57 DECISION MAKERS69 CANADIAN DELEGATION87 VISITOR INFO97 98 02 VENUES SCREENINGS & TALKS99 MAPS100 SCHEDULE102 APP 110 CREDITS111
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As we come together to celebrate AIDC 2020, we do so with a bittersweet awareness of how the recent past has shaped the present moment. This conference, established by a group of documentarians over 30 years ago, is the product of the hard work and support of many Australians. As we launch this year’s event, we want to recognise all the people who prepared and planned for it amidst the smoky haze of the Australian bushfires, itself an unrelenting reminder of the tragic and unprecedented loss of human, ALICE BURGIN MARTIN FOLEY MP CAROLINE PITCHER FIONA GILROY & SUSIE JONES CONFERENCE DIRECTOR animal and plant life that has marked this period. MINISTER FOR CREATIVE CEO CO-CHAIRS AIDC INDUSTRIES FILM VICTORIA AIDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS The overwhelming local and global community response to Australia’s plight is a shining example of what has guided us in developing our motif for the year. ‘Collective As we head into a new decade, Documentary films are real Welcome to the 33rd AIDC. quality factual content and stories with the power to create This year’s conference theme Intelligence’ incorporates ideas around collective courageous storytelling are more dialogue, encourage action of ‘Collective Intelligence’ brings movements, of coming together to solve problems, and important than ever. and change lives. a focus on shared wisdom, a shared sense of ownership and responsibility. It reflects international funding, content notions of custodianship, collaboration and shared AIDC brings together the most It is due to the immense talent distribution and how technology exciting creators and leaders and passion of Australian factual blends into the human wisdom—all the things vital to our continued survival working in the global documentary content filmmakers that our experience. With delegations as an industry, and, in a much larger sense, as a species. space today, with a program set most important global and local from Canada and decision Over these four days, we encourage you to join us in to challenge and inspire. stories reach and inspire makers from around the world, taking a step closer to one another, with a view to audiences around the world and we hope you will be inspired creating new alliances, sharing knowledge, working Victoria is proud to host AIDC this vibrant conference is often to look at production and funding 2020 at our newly transformed the place where it all begins. opportunities from a fresh and together and cooperation. State Library, and to be global perspective. investing in the future of our Every year at AIDC new THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL AIDC is a place for nurturing ideas that become stories. screen industry. partnerships are formed, brilliant We are also delighted that this DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE We encourage you to use this time to take in your ideas are hatched and incredible year’s pitching initiatives offer ACKNOWLEDGES THE AUSTRALIAN Wishing you an enjoyable and experiences are shared and over $500,000 in project funding ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT surroundings, to think about the cultures that have come ISLANDER PEOPLES AS THE FIRST productive few days. we’re thrilled to be Principal to help support our industry. INHABITANTS OF THE NATION AND before, and to imagine how we can all work—collectively Partner again in 2020. The board of the AIDC thank all THE TRADITIONAL CUSTODIANS —towards the future we want, and how we can use the our generous sponsors— OF THE LANDS WHERE WE LIVE, LEARN AND WORK. power of story to bring this shared vision to life. particularly Film Victoria and ACMI —and our Executive team and volunteers led by Alice Burgin.
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 09 ACCESS 11 PRESENTED BY COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE THE ACCESS PRIZE At the end of the program, one participant is selected for the ACCESS Prize: the opportunity to undertake a one-month company production international leading with internship paid Beach House Pictures in Singapore. AIDC also partners with Sheffield Doc/Fest to offer a second ACCESS participant a complimentary Festival Passthe to UK’s documentary prestigious festival. most 2020 ACCESS PARTICIPANTS Barbara Taylor Alyian Steven Beck Lauren Innes Corinne BeardTravis Jared Nicholson ACCESS IS AIDC’S FAST-TRACK PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL FAST-TRACK AIDC’S IS ACCESS PROGRAM, MENTORSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT THE FILMMAKERS GIVE TO DESIGNED OPPORTUNITY THEIR TAKE TO SKILLS AND IDEAS TO THE NEXT LEVEL. Through priceless mentoring with industry professionals from around the world, ACCESSallows six applicants to hone their skills and incubate an original idea in earlydevelopment over four days ofsessions and one-on-one mentoring. AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE FUNDS PLEDGED FOR PRACTITIONERS:5 – ABC FUNDS PLEDGED FOR PRACTITIONERS:3 – FULCRUM MEDIA FINANCE FUNDS PLEDGED FOR PRACTITIONERS:2 AFTRS– – BBC STUDIOS – CJZ – FIRST AUSTRALIAN BOND COMPLETION FREMANTLE – PICTURES NORTHERN – – PROJECTOR FILMS UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT – ENTERTAINMENT WILDBEAR – FUNDS PLEDGED FOR PRACTITIONER:1 – BRINDLE FILMS PRODUCTIONS CLOSER – – DEMAND FILM UNIVERSITY COWAN EDITH – – MARSHALL + DENT + WILMOTH ACCOUNTING NAGLE – – PRINCESS PICTURES PRODUCTIONS PROSPERO – – SEVEN STUDIOS – WEIR ANDERSON – UNITED FINISHING ARTISTS Leading Lights is AIDC’s AIDC’s is Lights Leading program funding philanthropic for early career, Indigenous and CALD (culturally and linguistically attend to practitioners diverse) AIDC for the first time. come fund the to Contributions leading Australia’s from production houses and media businesses. The goal is to bring new voices to the table, enrich the practitioner and community, build the foundations for the future of the industry. Since its inception, the program has supported new 102 practitioners attend the to conference. AIDC would like to thank new and returning donors to the Leading Lights Fund in 2020. WE BELIEVE THAT A WIDE VARIETY AND VOICES OF PERSPECTIVES IS FORVITAL HEALTHY A SCREEN INDUSTRY.
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The Australian Dream Aljazeera.com community. overcome traumaand both personal obstacles political to forhis passabillcritical overwhelmingly whiteand HouseofRepresentatives, Missouri Republican must Bruce Franks and Jr.,aFerguson activist battlerapperwho was elected to the ST. LOUISSUPERMAN Immerse yourselfinstories beyond the headlines Witness, AlJazeera’s award winningdocumentary series Al Jazeera ofAIDC=;=; ProudSponsor FACTORY 2020 IS AIDC’S CENTREPIECE INTERNATIONAL PITCHING PROGRAM FOR DOCUMENTARY, FACTUAL AND UNSCRIPTED SCREEN CONTENT.
Comprising three targeted strands—Forum Pitches, the New Talent Pitch, and Rough Cut Sessions— FACTory 2020 brings documentary producers 2020 FACTORY face-to-face with the most relevant decision makers from around the world.
Watch and learn as producers present directly to commissioners, buyers, funders and distributors in dynamic live-pitching sessions, obtaining expert feedback and potentially sealing deals on the spot.
ROUGH CUT SESSIONS MONDAY 2 MARCH PRESENTED BY 9:00 –10:45 THE POST LOUNGE KALEIDE THEATRE INVITATION ONLY
FORUM PITCHES TUESDAY 3 MARCH PRESENTED BY CONVERSATION QUARTER FILM VICTORIA ARTS & CULTURE 9:30 –10:45 SOCIETY & POLITICS 11:30 –13:00 SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY 14:00 –15:15 OPEN TO ALL AIDC PASSES
NEW TALENT PITCH TUESDAY 3 MARCH PRESENTED BY 16:00 –17:15 FILM VICTORIA CONVERSATION QUARTER OPEN TO ALL AIDC PASSES PITCHING FORUM PITCHING INTERNATIONAL
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 15 DIRECTOR PRODUCER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY LARISSA BEHRENDT AO SAM GRIFFIN ANNA HOWARD
Director Larissa Behrendt is an Producer Sam Griffin is the Head Cinematographer Anna Howard award-winning writer/director of Documentary and Specialist ACS started in the Australian and author of fiction and Factual at Essential Media Film Industry in 1981. Her credits nonfiction with a passion for Group. Prior to this, she was an include: Machine (2018), Rabbit telling the stories of Indigenous investment manager at Screen (2018), Errors of the Human Body Australia. She won the Australian Australia, where she was involved (2012), South Solitary (2010), Directors Guild Award for her in the development, funding Rake (2010), Marking Time (2003), documentary After the Apology, and management of a slate of and Women He’s Undressed which premiered at Adelaide award-winning documentaries, (2015). Anna Howard ACS is Film Festival in 2017. Larissa also nationally-significant television a respected cinematographer wrote and directed the Walkley- series, and emerging filmmaker and a campaigner for equal nominated documentary initiatives. Before returning opportunities. Anna was awarded Innocence Betrayed, which aired to Sydney in 2010, Sam worked ACS Accreditation in 2004 on NITV in 2014. Her short film, in New York where she was and Inducted into the ACS Hall Under Skin, In Blood, screened a producer, overseeing editorial of Fame in 2019. at Sydney Film Festival and and production of hundreds Melbourne International Film of hours of fashion and arts Festival in 2015. factual content.
THE FIGHT TOGETHER (WORKING TITLE)
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AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A MAN A group of NRL greats got together to invent a Culture, Sport Production company: Sam Griffin DRIVEN TO SHARE HIS CULTURE new pre-game ceremony, a response to the Essential Media +61 (0)423285324 Maori Haka but also a new ceremony to celebrate Country of production: WITH THE WORLD. [email protected] Aboriginal cultures and counter racism in rugby Australia league. They now want to use that dance to Director: Larissa Behrendt AO change the hearts and minds of all Australians. Producer: Sam Griffin This feature documentary follows one man’s journey Executive Producers: to make that happen. Brendan Dahill, Paul Wiegard Estimated Duration: 75 mins Stage of Production: Late Development
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Feature Total budget: AUD $900,000 essential.media Secured finance: AUD $600,000 Shortfall: AUD $300,000 Financiers: NITV, Madman, Producer Off-set ARTS & CULTURE
16 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 17 PRODUCER DIRECTOR FOREST IAN ETSLER IL-HA LEE
Forest Ian Etsler is a USA-born Born in Korea, Il-ha moved to producer-director based in Japan in 2000 to study film. Seoul, South Korea. He worked There he received an MFA at as production assistant Nihon University, and a on several feature-length Doctorate in Documentary internationally co-produced Directing from Osaka University documentaries, as well as of the Arts. While studying in directing and producing several Japan, Il-ha experienced much short documentary and narrative racial discrimination, and as a films. He was awarded the Best result, has focused extensively Pitch from Korea Documentary on this theme in his work. In Festival in 2018 on the Ssing More Il-ha empathizes with the Ssing ROK project and attended protagonist and wants to focus the Sheffield Doc/Fest as a on the protagonist’s broken member of the Korean delegation. wings. More will be Il-ha’s fourth Forest has also worked on theatrical feature documentary. Korean TV as producer, director, and show-runner.
MORE
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A GENDER NON-BINARY Meet Jimin—the boy who always dreamt of Arts, Society Production company: Forest Ian Etsler PERFORMANCE ARTIST ACHIEVES becoming a ballerina. Both as a rural schoolboy Exposed Film +82 1042287354 interested in ballet and as a ballerino in South Country of production: PERSONAL ACCEPTANCE AND [email protected] Korea’s top art university, Jimin suffered abuse South Korea, USA, Russia RECONCILIATION—AS CHRONICLED for harnessing his feminine side. Director: Il-ha Lee THROUGH THE GENRE OF MUSICAL Producer: Forest Ian Etsler DOCUMENTARY. Meet “More” (the ‘hairy mermaid’)—Jimin’s Estimated Duration: 75 mins alter-ego, who has been for 20-plus years Seoul’s Stage of Production: preeminent drag queen. As a performance artist, Production More performs globally and has collaborated with queer icons like John Cameron Mitchell, of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame.
While More gains acclaim and prominence, Jimin—unable to marry his life-partner—struggles FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION for basic human rights. Only More can console Jimin, and only Jimin can give More the validation Single / One-off Total budget: AUD $500,000 he requires. This documentary aims to take the Feature Secured finance: AUD $156,120 audience on a cathartic journey of self-acceptance Hour (52'/60') Shortfall: AUD $343,880 and reconciliation. 70+ mins Financiers: Busan International Film Festival AND Fund, Korean Communication Agency, Korean Film Council, Seoul Film Commission ARTS & CULTURE
18 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 19 PRODUCER DIRECTOR TARA RIDDELL JUSTIN HAWKES
Tara Riddell is an award-winning Justin directed New Zealand’s film producer, with over 20 years first Netflix Original – David experience in the industry as Farrier and Carthew Neal’s Dark a producer. Her films have been Tourist. Mixing documentary selected for Cannes, Venice with black comedy, one of and New Zealand festivals and Justin’s episodes on ‘The Stans’ Art Basel, and she has won the has the highest viewer rating on Grand Prix in Cannes Critics’ Dark Tourist’s IMDB listing. Week. Tara is the Executive Producer of Sydney-based This year Justin launched the RASKOLS production company, two-part documentary, Patrick managing a slate of established Gower: On Weed, which he directors. Tara also owns Bamber directed and edited. It had Films, specialising in long-form huge ratings and great viewer moving image and working and critical feedback. It was across feature films, shorts, the highest-rated show in New television and gallery exhibitions. Zealand in 2019.
THE BUSHWHACKERS: A LOVE STORY
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THE BUSHWHACKERS WERE In the 1980s, Australasian tag team, Sport, Society Production company: Tara Riddell SUPERSTARS OF WRESTLING. The Bushwhackers, were superstars of wrestling. Bamber Films +61 (0)433166194 Now in their seventies, the two best friends Country of production: NOW IN THEIR SEVENTIES, [email protected] reunite and embark on a farewell tour of Australia, New Zealand, USA THE TWO BEST FRIENDS REUNITE America—against the advice of their doctor. Director: Justin Hawkes AND EMBARK ON A FAREWELL Producer: Tara Riddell TOUR OF AMERICA—AGAINST Estimated Duration: THE ADVICE OF THEIR DOCTOR. 80-90 min Stage of Production: Early Development
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Feature Total budget: AUD $995,616 bamberfilms.com Secured finance: AUD $5,000 Shortfall: AUD $990,616 Financiers: NZFC
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20 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 21 WRITER, DIRECTOR WRITER, DIRECTOR PRODUCERS EM BAKER JUHI SHARMA SAMANTHA DINNING & PHILIPPA CAMPEY
Em’s debut feature Juhi Sharma is a New Philippa and Samantha are documentary I Am No Bird York, Dallas and Chennai- producers at Film Camp. Their premiered at Sydney Film based filmmaker working in recent documentary credits Festival 2019 (nominated documentaries, fiction films, include ABC’s Art Bite Series Best Australian Documentary) music videos and branded The Unmissables, NITV/SBS and was released theatrically content. Her filmWalk of Fame, series Treaty, and the feature with Potential Films. Em’s with Dir. Blaine Morris premiered documentary No Time for Quiet documentary Spoke won the at the Oscar Qualifying NY (which Samantha co-directed Audience Choice Award at the Shorts International Film Festival. with Hylton Shaw). Film Camp is Melbourne Documentary Film Her directorial debut, Skinny currently releasing The Leunig Festival. Her short film Dolphin Love premiered at the Alternative Fragments (with Madman) while is an official selection at this Film Festival in Toronto and producing feature docs Palazzo year’s Melbourne Women in was the Official Selection di Cozzo and Brazen Hussies. Film Festival and Queerscreen’s at the Newark International Film Camp has won awards at Mardi Gras Film Festival. Film Festival and Adirondack Cannes, Sundance, AFI-Fest International Film Festival. and Thessaloniki, and screened at festivals including Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Telluride, True/False, BFI-London and Sheffield. THE VINYL RECORDS: DESTROY PHALLUS OPPRESSION
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AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF Although they didn’t set out to create feminist music, Music, Geopolitics, Gender Production company: Samantha Dinning EPIDEMIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE, three-piece post-punk band The Vinyl Records Film Camp +61 (0)415292691 soon realised that their very existence is political. Country of production: INDIA’S ONLY ALL-GIRL PUNK BAND [email protected] We follow the band on their 2020 national tour Australia, India ‘THE VINYL RECORDS’ TAKE TO across an increasingly divided India where tensions Directors: Philippa Campey THE ROAD, SINGING THE WAR-CRY around women’s rights and conservative politics Em Baker, Juhi Sharma +61 (0)410665032 OF A NATION’S WOMEN. are at boiling point. Producers: Samantha [email protected] Dinning, Philippa Campey Estimated Duration: 85 mins Stage of Production: Late Development
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Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $600,000 filmcamp.com.au Feature Secured finance: AUD $10,000 70+ mins Shortfall: AUD $590,000 Financiers: Screen Australia (Development) ARTS & CULTURE
22 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 23 PRODUCTION COMPANY PRODUCER PRODUCER VANISHING PICTURES MIRANDA DARLING VIOLA RAIKHEL-BOLOT PRODUCTIONS
VPP was founded by Miranda Miranda is a writer and Viola is Managing Director and Viola to tell the stories of co-founder of VPP. She has and Co-Founder of 1858 Ltd women who have wielded soft published two thrillers, a Art Advisory, and Co-Founder power to change the course novel, and worked on several of Vanishing Pictures of history. The stories they tell documentaries as a writer and Productions. 1858 Ltd is the in books and film focus on the consultant. Before reading leading international art advisor nexus between art and politics, English and Modern Languages to UHNW collectors, private told through the lives of the at Oxford, she worked as a banks, financial institutions, extraordinary women at the fashion model and for Paper family offices, fashion and heart of them. Magazine in New York. She has luxury brands, and museums an MA in Strategic Studies and on the various aspects of the Defence from the ANU (GSSD), art collection process. Viola is and was a scholar at CIS, where regularly called upon for market she published widely on new insights in the international security threats. press and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg TV News.
THE LAST EMPRESS
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THE LAST EMPRESS IS A FEATURE It has now been 40 years since the Empress Culture, Geopolitics Production company: Viola Bolot DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE EPIC and her family were forced into exile. Since then Vanishing Pictures Productions +61 (0)406431214 they have been living under a death sentence (VPP) LIFE OF EMPRESS FARAH PAHLAVI [email protected] in absentia. Country of production: —THE FIRST CROWNED EMPRESS Australia, USA Miranda Darling IN IRANIAN HISTORY. HER STORY After decades of living quietly in exile, a major Director: Withheld +61 (0)414673375 IS ONE OF FAIRY TALES, TRAGEDY, new power struggle between her homeland, Iran, Producers: Miranda Darling, [email protected] REVOLUTION AND TRIUMPH. and her adopted country, the US, threatens to Viola Raikhel-Bolot draw the Empress back in. She has now Estimated Duration: 90 mins re-emerged on the world stage, recently revealing: Stage of Production: ‘They said if I killed my husband, I could go back.’ Production Despite the hardships her people face, the Empress does not want regime change to come from outside. Her wish is to live to see a revolution from within, one she feels certain will be led by FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS the women of Iran. Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $2,000,000 BOOK assouline.com/ Feature Secured finance: AUD $800,000 products/iran-modern Shortfall: AUD $1,200,000 VPP vanishingpictures Financiers: Vanishing productions.com/news Pictures Productions SOCIETY & POLITICS
24 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 25 DIRECTOR, PRODUCER CO-PRODUCER CO-PRODUCER, WRITER JO DE FINA NICK BATZIAS MELANIE HORKAN
Jo has worked with some of Long standing member of the Melanie co-produced and wrote the most iconic companies and Australian film industry, Nick Academy shortlisted My Enemy creatives globally, and her time Batzias is a producer working My Brother in 2015 for Fathom in New York saw her produce across film and television. He is Films in Toronto. She also for Oscar-nominated director best known for the films Save worked as development Bennett Miller. Recognised Your Legs (2012), A Month of producer on Google and the as Australia’s best Creative Sundays (2015) and Below (2019) World Brain for BBC / ARTE / Producer at the B&T Women in and feature documentaries TVE which screened at over 60 Media Awards, and one of SPA’s That Sugar Film (2014), 2040 festivals. In 2019 she produced ‘Ones to Watch’ 2019, Jo has (2019) and The Australian Dream and programmed Screen produced incredible projects (2019). In addition Nick has Forever for Screen Producers with some of the biggest Executive Produced several Australia attracting a record names in the entertainment feature films and documentaries. number of attendees. and advertising industries Nick is Managing Partner at worldwide, including, rock stars, GoodThing Productions, based politicians, and the current in Melbourne, Australia. WRITER President of the USA. JESS LILLEY
Jess Lilley is a creative director, radio maker and writer. She is currently a broadcaster at 3RRR-FM, producing programs covering culture and social TEA UGLOW — issues. Jess is also a co-editor EXPERIMENTAL PERSON IN CHARGE and writer at Gabberish.com
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WHY IS IDENTITY SUCH A DIVISIVE Tea Uglow has chosen to challenge accepted Arts, Society, Gender Production company: Melanie Horkan FORCE IN TODAY’S CULTURE, norms of how we define ourselves by no longer OTTO +61 (0)403444024 conforming to social expectation, instead being Country of production: AND WHY ARE WE IN SUCH A RUSH [email protected] fully transparent about every aspect of who they Australia TO DEFINE WHO WE—AND EACH are and how they have come to be. To everyone. Director: Jo de Fina Jo de Fina OTHER—ARE? Producers: Jo de Fina, +61 (0)413863944 Identifying as neuro-diverse and trans, this is the Nick Batzias, Melanie Horkan [email protected] story of how Tea created their second coming of Writers: Jess Lilley, age. With so many labels to negotiate—from Melanie Horkan ‘different’ to ‘Dissociative Identity Disorder’—Tea Estimated Duration: 75 mins ultimately encourages us to redefine what normal is. Stage of Production: Late Development But as Tea and filmmaker, Jo de Fina, traverse the implications of their decision to live with brutal honesty, we see that it comes at huge personal FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS cost to Tea. Feature Total budget: AUD $1,200,000 hellootto.com.au Secured finance: AUD $5,000 Shortfall: AUD $1,195,000 Financiers: Film Victoria
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26 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 27 SUBJECT AND CO-PRODUCER PRODUCER CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR OLIVER CASSIDY CHRIS KAMEN KASIMIR BURGESS
Oliver is an 8th-generation Chris Kamen is a producer, Kasimir’s latest film,The Leunig Tasmanian, activist, filmmaker, lawyer, and digital distribution Fragments, screened to critical musician and transgender specialist. With 15 years in the acclaim at Sydney, Melbourne person who began this journey industry, Chris has produced a and Brisbane International Film as Heather. Oliver works with wide variety of formats including Festivals and is in general release the Tasmanian Conservation feature-length documentaries, now. His debut feature Fell had Trust, an organisation that television, short films, web its world premiere at the Sydney co-ordinated environmental series and advertising. He has International Film Festival. campaigns with others including pioneered innovative distribution The Wilderness Society, Bob methods on a number of CO-WRITER Brown Foundation, Freycinet projects and currently works CLAIRE SMITH Action Network, the Planning part-time at CJZ. Matters Alliance and more. Claire has written, produced Oliver also writes music and and directed documentaries for performs regularly in his band, ABC, Netflix and Discovery. Philomath. Over the last year She is currently producing a he has become a known figure global, environmental feature in the Hobart music scene. at ITN Productions in collaboration with Doc Society. Previous roles at Discovery USA, on ABC’s flagship science show Catalyst, and on Genepool DARK WATER: Productions’ Vitamania. BATTLE ON THE FRANKLIN
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A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE EPIC Dark Water is a cinematic, feature-length History, Environment, Politics Production company: Chris Kamen FIGHT TO SAVE TASMANIA’S WILD documentary about the seven-year campaign Rock Island Bend +61 (0)438309335 to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin Productions Pty Ltd FRANKLIN RIVER FROM BEING [email protected] River from being drowned by the construction Country of production: DAMMED BY THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC of a huge hydroelectric dam in the early 1980s. Australia COMMISSION IN THE 1980S. Director: Kasimir Burgess The story is framed by Oliver, an 8th generation Producers: Chris Kamen, transgender Tasmanian, who grieves over the Oliver Cassidy, Annie Venables early passing of his conservationist father Mike. Writers: Kasimir Burgess, After discovering Mike’s diary from his 18-day Claire Smith rafting mission to join the blockade, Oliver embarks Estimated Duration: 90 mins on a solo rafting pilgrimage down the life-changing Stage of Production: Financing river. In the process, he discovers the extraordinary story of the campaign and gains valuable FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS insights into how change-making movements actually succeed. Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $700,000 franklinriver.movie Feature Secured finance: AUD $433,000 fb.com/franklinrivermovie 70+ mins Shortfall: AUD $267,000 Financiers: Screen Australia (production investment) & Screen Tasmania (development assistance) SOCIETY & POLITICS
28 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 29 DIRECTOR PRODUCER PRODUCER, EDITOR KARL MALAKUNAS MARTY SYJUCO MICHAEL COLLINS
Karl is an Australian journalist Originally from the Philippines, Michael is an Emmy® and who has reported on conflicts, Marty is a two-time Emmy®- Grierson-nominated filmmaker natural disasters and political nominated filmmaker whose and the founder of Thoughtful upheavals around the world for first film Give Up Tomorrow Robot, a film production two decades. He is currently the premiered at the Tribeca Film company committed to telling Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor-In- Festival where it won the stories that galvanize change. Chief for the international news Audience Award and Special Michael’s recent film Almost agency Agence France-Presse. Jury Prize. The film won Sunrise is the first film about Karl began making Darkened 18 awards and has been seen “moral injury” and its connection Paradise, his first feature film, by over 50 million viewers. His to the veteran suicide crisis. while based in the Philippines recent film, Call Her Ganda was The film premiered at Telluride as Manila Bureau Chief for AFP. nominated for a GLAAD Media Mountainfilm in 2016 and has An initial short film and essay Award and was broadcast on had 600+ screenings across on Palawan’s land defenders by POV. Marty was invited to join the country, winning six Karl won a special merit at the the Academy of Motion Pictures major awards, including the 2018 Amnesty International Asia- Arts and Sciences last summer. Voice Award, and an Emmy Pacific Human Rights Awards. nomination for Outstanding Current-Affairs Documentary.
DARKENED PARADISE (WORKING TITLE)
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THREE ENVIRONMENTAL Palawan appears to be an idyllic tropical island. Politics, Wildlife Production company: Marty Syjuco CRUSADERS CONFRONT MURDER, Its powder-white beaches and lush forests have Thoughtful Robot +1 9173346395 made it one of Asia’s hottest new tourist Productions, Vulcan BETRAYAL AND THEIR OWN DEMONS [email protected] destinations. But for a tiny network of environmental Productions, ITVS AS THEY ARE TESTED LIKE NEVER crusaders and vigilantes trying to protect its Countries of production: BEFORE IN THEIR BATTLE TO spectacular natural resources, it is more akin Philippines, USA, Singapore, SAVE AN ISLAND PARADISE IN THE to a battlefield.Darkened Paradise follows Bobby, Hong Kong, Australia PHILIPPINES. Tata and Nieves, three magnetic leaders of this Director: Karl Malakunas network, as they confront the biggest challenges Producers: Marty Syjuco, of their lives trying to stop ruthless politicians Michael Collins and businessmen from plundering the Philippines’ Estimated Duration: 80 mins “last ecological frontier”. It is a timely film Stage of Production: emblematic of the struggles globally as land Production defenders are being killed in record numbers trying to save natural resources from the rapaciousness FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS of corporations and governments. Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $1,238,000 thoughtfulrobot.com Feature Secured finance: AUD $460,538 Hour (52'/60') Shortfall: AUD $777,462 70+ mins Financiers: Sundance, Bertha Foundation, SFFILM, Vulcan Productions, ITVS SOCIETY & POLITICS
30 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 31 PRODUCER DIRECTOR, WRITER KARINA HOLDEN TOSCA LOOBY
Karina has 24 years of Tosca Looby has honed her experience in documentary as a storytelling skills on diverse key creative on Emmy-nominated and often difficult subjects. and AACTA-winning programs. She has created award-winning Her feature documentary Blue documentaries in Europe, Asia premiered at the UN at the and Australia—proving an invitation of the President of the elegant storyteller and one of General Assembly and has been Australia’s most talented factual translated into 10 languages, scriptwriters. Tosca has also reaching an audience of over series-produced archive projects three million-plus people in Australia and the UK, creating through international theatrical complicated thesis-dependent release. The crux of her creative works on issues including work is to create change, truth international child abduction, tell and find unlikely heroes who modern parenting and Asian challenge our perceptions. poaching rings. Strong Female Lead is her original idea and passion project.
STRONG FEMALE LEAD
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A DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING In this film we distill the Parliament and media Society, Politics Production company: Karina Holden AUSTRALIA’S STRUGGLE WITH THE response to Julia Gillard’s leadership using Northern Pictures karina@ NOTION OF WOMEN AND POWER archive from her three-year tenure as Australia’s Country of production: northernpictures.com.au Prime Minister—an honest portrait from a moment Australia WHEN A STRONG FEMALE TAKES in time, unmuddied by hindsight. We see the Director: Tosca Looby THE LEAD. attacks, ever-increasing in their vitriol, sexual and Producer: Karina Holden violent overtones, that characterised her time in Estimated Duration: 75 mins office: Ditch the witch, hag, slut, Ju-liar. Stage of Production: Strong Female Lead will let us hear what the boy’s Late Development club sounded like as it howled and what happened when Gillard fought back. By offering an unflinching view of misogyny’s foundations— we aim to get better at dismantling it.
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Feature Total budget: AUD $843,273 northernpictures.com.au Secured finance: AUD $293,702 Shortfall: AUD $549,571 Financiers: Producer Offset
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32 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 33 DIRECTOR, PRODUCER PRODUCER PRODUCER JULIA LANDREY DYLAN BLOWEN DANNY LECHEVRE
Julia is an interdisciplinary Dylan is a multi-award-winning Danny is founder of Cinema-On- artist who has worked across filmmaker with a career Demand Distribution platform installation, performance art, spanning more than 20 years in Fan-Force.com, production and filmmaking. Her works have the film and television industry— company FanForce Productions been exhibited domestically and in Los Angeles, New York and Film Marketing Agency internationally at festivals, in and Australia, encompassing The Solid State. Over the past galleries and theatres including documentary and drama 20 years he’s worked across the Sydney Opera House and features, television singles hundreds of international Film the Museum of Contemporary and series and streaming and TV campaigns. The Fan- Art. Julia trained at The Australia projects. After taking a hiatus Force ‘crowd-sourced’ film Film Television and Radio as Production and Development distribution platform operates in School, National Institute of Executive at Screen NSW he 37 countries around the world. Dramatic Arts and University of has produced films for VICE, The platform has achieved New South Wales. ABC and Network Ten. The OH box office records for 2040, Gap will be his return to feature That Sugar Film and Embrace documentary after producing and works with a broad base Australian prize-winning of international filmmakers to documentary The Snowman. develop, produce and distribute content for a global marketplace.
THE OH GAP
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A CONFIDENT WOMAN, STRUGGLING Exasperated by the orgasm imbalance in her own Culture, History, Science Production company: Dylan Blowen TO ADDRESS THE ‘ORGASM GAP’ relationship, a confident woman realises she is Pony Films Pty Ltd +61 (0)414524734 not alone with most heterosexual women Country of production: IN HER RELATIONSHIP, DISCOVERS [email protected] orgasming much less than their male partners. Australia A HISTORY OF MISINFORMATION Director: Julia Landrey Julia Landrey AROUND FEMALE SEXUALITY, SO Digging deeper she discovers a long history of Producers: Dylan Blowen, +61 (0)420990252 SHE BEGINS A MOVEMENT FOR misinformation, lies and confusion from religious, Danny LeChevre, Julia Landrey [email protected] CHANGE WITH THE HELP OF A GIANT cultural and scientific groups who have denigrated Estimated Duration: 90 mins GOLDEN CLITORIS. female sexual pleasure and the clitoris. She meets Stage of Production: with scientists, experts, feminists and artists all Early Development working to drive change in their respective fields including Dr Mirkazemi, an FGM-repair surgeon and Alli Sebastian-Wolf, an artist who creates a giant golden clitoris sculpture. The experts help our protagonist create a social movement for change FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS to drive discussion, eliminate shame and most of all, bring pleasure to women around the world. Hour (52'/60') Total budget: AUD $1,500,000 ponyfilms.com.au 70+ mins Secured finance: AUD $579,000 eggshellprojects.com Shortfall: AUD $921,000 fan-force.com Financiers: FanForce Films, Crowdfunding, Producer’s Offset SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
34 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 35 PRODUCER PRODUCER DIRECTOR MADELEINE HETHERTON-MIAU REBECCA BARRY SOPHIE WIESNER
Madeleine Hetherton-Miau is Rebecca directs and Director Sophie Wiesner has a an experienced and multi- produces across a variety of long track record in compelling awarded director and producer. genres and has won many and well received TV series and Her filmmaking has taken her awards. Productions include singles. Sophie directed Call around the world from diamond documentary film I Am A Girl; Me Dad for the ABC, which was diving in Africa to wildlife producing the critical and ratings nominated for ADG and SPA trafficking in Burma and through success The Surgery Ship (SBS) awards. She is a sought-after the remote Australian outback. with Nat Geo and controversial Shooter Producer and Producer/ She works across a wide range filmThe Opposition, which Director on factual series. Her of documentary and factual screened at Hot Docs, IDFA, personal highlights include programs which have been Sydney Film Festival and was Keeping Australia Alive (ITV for broadcast in over 60 countries opening night film at HRAFF ABC), Country Town Rescue across networks including ABC, 2017. More recently, China Love (CJZ for ABC) and Bondi Vet BBC, Discovery, Nat Geo, Hulu has been enjoying a life on (WTFN for Network 10). and Al Jazeera. the festival circuit (DOCNYC & GZDOC) and screened on the ABC in 2019.
RESURRECTION PLANET
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CAN WE BRING EXTINCT ANIMALS Earth is experiencing its sixth great extinction. Science, Natural History Production company: Madeleine Hetherton-Miau AND THREATENED SPECIES BACK Nature is declining at rates unprecedented in Media Stockade +61 (0)408622203 human history. But now, incredibly, we have the Country of production: TO LIFE? madeleine@ power to reverse some of this destruction. Australia mediastockade.com Resurrection Planet follows global de-extinction Director: Sophie Wiesner and conservation scientists in the lab and in the Producers: Madeleine field, developing technologies and conservation Hetherton, Rebecca Barry techniques that can bring species back from the Estimated Duration: 4 x 1hr brink of extinction, and some back to life. (extendable) Stage of Production: Late Development
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Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $3,800,000 mediastockade.com Series Secured finance: AUD $840,000 Shortfall: AUD $2,960,000 Financiers: QAPE
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36 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 37 DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER WRITER SAM LARA CATHY HENKEL
Sam Lara has directed and Cathy Henkel has 30 years’ produced several award- experience as a documentary winning short films. Her 2019 producer/director/writer, Screenwest-funded short film focused on telling inspiring, Featherweight was nominated global stories with cross-platform for a Dendy Award at Sydney delivery. Her credits include Film Festival, and screened The Burning Season (IF Award in competition at Flickerfest and Emmy® nomination), International Short Film Festival, The Man who Stole my Mother’s Cambridge Film Festival Face (Tribeca Film Festival Best and Melbourne International Feature Documentary), Show me Film Festival, where she was the Magic (ACS Award) and selected to participate in MIFF’s Rise of the Eco-Warriors feature Accelerator Lab. She is currently documentary. She received the freelancing as an Assistant SPA Documentary Producer Director on feature films and of the Year award in 2009. TV series, and as a director Cathy is currently Director of of short films, music videos WA Screen Academy at Edith and factual content. Cowan University. LAURA’S CHOICE
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THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN Laura is 90 years old. She tells her daughter Cathy Culture, Society Production company: Sam Lara COME TO TERMS WITH A RADICAL and granddaughter Sam that she wishes to end Virgo Productions +61 (0)424648910 her life on her own terms. She wants to be in Country of production: APPROACH TO DYING. [email protected] control of the process, to set the time and place, Australia, Austria, Switzerland and be allowed to go with dignity. She embarks Directors: Cathy Henkel on the process of applying to a clinic in Switzerland Sam Lara, Cathy Henkel +61 (0)410491449 where her right to do this, and have her family Producers: [email protected] by her side, is legal. She plans a joyous farewell Sam Lara, Cathy Henkel party, and prepares for her final exit. And she Estimated Duration: 90 mins instructs Cathy and Sam, both filmmakers, to make Stage of Production: a film about it. Laura’s Choice explores complex Production questions as three generations of women travel into uncharted territory and navigate a radical, dignified and highly controversial approach to dying. FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS
Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $268,000 lauraschoice.org Feature Secured finance: AUD $22,800 Series Shortfall: AUD $245,200 Half hour Financiers: Screenwest; Brian Beaton Award NEW TALENT
38 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 39 WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER PRODUCER PRODUCER BRITT ARTHUR MISH ARMSTRONG CHARBY IBRAHIM
Charby is passionate about Britt is an award-winning Mish has produced social impact films with a producer/director. Her documentaries for all platforms creative twist. His recent hybrid documentaries have premiered including free to air, pay TV documentary, The Holiday at prestigious film festivals and SVOD—including Out of Inn-Side, found its way onto the including IDFA, BFI London Our Minds, Kokoda Trail, and long-list for the 2020 Academy Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Fitzroy Stars; feature drama Awards in its category, while and MIFF. Britt’s work has Life and Death of Otto Bloom, Bright Lights, a fully animated been recognised with wins and documentaries Graceful documentary about the perils from the Australian Directors Girls and Outsider. Mish works of poker machine gambling, Guild and ATOM, as well as as a producer on unscripted is expected to launch on nominations from the IF Awards, TV shows including Long Lost The Guardian’s prestigious ASTRA Awards and the Logies. Family, True Story, and The documentary platform in 2020. Her credits include Paper Block. She was EP on the online/ Charby is currently in production Trails, SMUT HOUNDS, Life TV series Housemates and What on his first feature documentary, Architecturally, My Uncle Bluey, Could Go Wrong, and is currently Life After Juvie, about kids caught Not in Front of the Kids, Grand EP on Property Banter. up in the juvenile justice system. Designs and Who Do You Think You Are?
LIFE AFTER JUVIE
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AGAINST THE TORRENT OF ‘TOUGH In the ongoing debate surrounding youth Youth, Children, Crime Production company: Charby Ibrahim ON CRIME’ RHETORIC, YOUNG offending, and the increase of ‘tough on crime’ Marhaba Films Pty Ltd +61 (0)481395079 rhetoric right across mainstream media, there is a Country of production: PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE STICKY WEB [email protected] voice too often missing from the conversation— Australia OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM that of the young person. Given that seven out of Director: Charby Ibrahim FIND THEIR VOICE. 10 young people are likely to return to prison after Producers: Charby Ibrahim, release, isn’t it time that we stop to ask them Britt Arthur, Mish Armstrong why? Creatively treated with the use of animation, Executive Producer: stylised interviews, observational footage, hybrid Jen Peedom dramatisation, and archival material, the stories Estimated Duration: told in this unconventional feature-length 90 mins documentary will have audiences reflecting on Stage of Production: much more than the ‘criminal act’ itself, but rather Late Development the life circumstances of the young person and the social context surrounding their behaviour. FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $800,000 Feature Secured finance: AUD $53,000 Shortfall: AUD $747,000 Financiers: Development — Screen Australia, Film Victoria, Shark Island Institute NEW TALENT
40 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 41 DIRECTOR PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS NED SPELDEWINDE CLAUDIA NANKERVIS ROBYN BUTLER AND WAYNE HOPE
Ned Speldewinde is a first Claudia Nankervis is an Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope time documentary filmmaker. emerging producer with an helm the successful Australian Starting out as a videographer impressive list of credits in film, production company, Gristmill. for corporate and wedding television, radio and podcasts, Prolific and multi-award videos, Ned expanded his including Production Assistant winning content creators, they skillset as an Assistant Grip on on Rockwiz for SBS and co-created, wrote, produced Gristmill’s award winning Little Assistant Television Producer and directed The Librarians, Lunch. Ned was encouraged at the Melbourne International Very Small Business, Upper to hone his craft as behind- Comedy Festival. Claudia Middle Bogan and Back in Very the-scenes director/producer has worked at award-winning Small Business. Robyn wrote on Gristmill’s hit series, Upper production company Gristmill and starred in the feature film, Middle Bogan, following which as production runner, executive Now Add Honey, which Wayne his making-of special, Inside assistant, and is now producing directed. They also co-created, Upper Middle Bogan, was several projects in development. wrote, produced and directed released on iView. Ned also shot She currently co-hosts and the smash hit children’s series, and produced the EPK for Back produces an alumni podcast Little Lunch and, most recently, in Very Small Business. for St Michaels Grammar The Investigators for ABC ME School and produces a monthly and Netflix. storytelling event in Melbourne. LIGHTEN MY LOAD
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A YOUNG MAN DONATES SPERM The Shire, South West of Sydney and epicentre Culture, Society Production company: Claudia Nankervis TO A LESBIAN COUPLE AND FINDS of Middle Australia, is an unlikely backdrop for Gristmill +61 (0)401847109 a young man to help a lesbian couple start a family, Country of production: HIMSELF ON A JOURNEY TO [email protected] but Ned Speldewinde feels compelled. After the Australia MAKE AMENDS FOR HIS FATHER’S birth of Fynn, Ned begins to think about his Director: Ned Speldewinde ADOPTIVE PAST. father’s forced adoption. Lindsay Speldewinde’s Producer: Claudia Nankervis wiped history is in stark contrast to the considered Executive Producers: transparency which Ned experiences with his Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope donor family and Ned discovers that he has Estimated Duration: 75 mins unwittingly embarked on a journey of redemption. Stage of Production: While the family tries for a sibling for Fynn, Late Development Ned determines to uncover Lindsay’s buried past and prosecute his thesis: identity matters.
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Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $587,112 gristmill.com.au Feature Secured finance: AUD $144,987 70+ mins Shortfall: AUD $442,125 Financiers: Private financing
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42 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 43 DIRECTOR PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ELIZA COX GENA LIDA RIESS ANNA KAPLAN
With a background in Gena Lida Riess is a queer Anna Kaplan is a screen journalism, Eliza is especially Melbourne-based filmmaker producer working at the interested in exploring human with experience in independent intersection of film, storytelling nature through stories of the documentary films, journalism and social change. She led the everyday man (and woman). Her and promotional videos. As a impact campaign for That Sugar passion for Queens of Concrete director, her work has screened Film and implemented localised lies in her own teenage struggle both locally and internationally campaigns for The Hunting to understand her gender and has also been distributed Ground and Life, Animated. identity. She was neither a both commercially and for Most recently, Anna produced “girly-girl” or a “tomboy”, and educational purposes. Her most and is heading up the global therefore confused by what this notable work, Creating a Monster, impact campaign for made her. After previous success explores how reality television is Damon Gameau’s 2040, at short film festivals globally, constructed and consumed, and which premiered at the Eliza is making her feature debut the psychological impact it has Berlinale, grossed over $1.5m with Queens of Concrete. on participants. Currently Gena at the Australian box office is making her debut as a and is currently being released producer on the feature film internationally. Anna was Queens of Concrete. recently awarded the 2020 Natalie Miller Fellowship.
QUEENS OF CONCRETE
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A TRUE LIFE JOURNEY OF Queens of Concrete is a coming-of-age Sport, Society Production company: Gena Riess DISCOVERY AS THREE GIRLS documentary following three young skateboarders Gena Lida Films +61 (0)438532057 over five years. Hayley, Ava and Charlotte have Country of production: WRESTLE ADOLESCENCE IN [email protected] their sights firmly fixed on competing in the Australia, USA, Japan PURSUIT OF OLYMPIC HISTORY. 2020 Summer Olympics—the first ever Games to Director: Eliza Cox Eliza Cox hold a skateboarding event. With just a few spots Producer: Gena Lida Riess +61 (0)474706742 available on the Australian Olympic team, Executive Producer: [email protected] the pressure to impress the Olympic Committee Anna Kaplan is huge. Estimated Duration: 90 mins Stage of Production: Each girl will take a different journey over the Late Development five-year period, navigating professional skateboarding and teen life. Where will it take them and who will they be at the end? FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $750,000 Feature Secured finance: AUD $15,000 Hour (52'/60') Shortfall: AUD $735,000 70+ mins Financiers: Film Victoria, Applicant Contribution
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44 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 45 DIRECTOR PRODUCER ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, TZE WOON CHAN PETER YAM AUDIENCE DESIGNER CATHERINE CHAN
Chan Tze Woon is a Hong Kong Yam produced the Yamagata Together with Oscar winner filmmaker. He graduated from International Film Festival Ruby Yang, Catherine the Academy of Film at Hong Ogawa Shinsuke Prize-winner established the Hong Kong Kong Baptist University in 2013. Yellowing (2016), directed by Documentary Initiative in 2015 A large-scale occupation in Chan Tze Woon, which was also as Project Manager, supporting 2014 prompted him to make his nominated for the 2016 Golden filmmakers in the region with first feature-length documentary Horse Best Documentary. seed funding and mentorship. Yellowing (2016). The film won She serves as Associate the Shinsuke Ogawa Award at He also worked on the Producer for several Yamagata International documentary Lost in Fumes documentaries by emerging Documentary Film Festival, was (2017), directed by Nora Lam, filmmakers. Catherine is a nominated for Best Documentary which was recognised by the journalism graduate and has at Taipei Golden Horse Film Hong Kong Film Critics worked in public relations and Awards, and qualified for Best Academy Award and the administration across Hong Feature Documentary for Chinese Documentary Award Kong and China for over 10 Oscars 2019. (Special Jury Prize) by 2018 years. She embraces new Taiwan International perspectives, in search of the Documentary Film Festival. best platform for storytelling. She is an Audience Designer at Torino Film Lab 2019. BLUE ISLAND
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THREE MEN RELIVE PIVOTAL Yeung was put behind bars at age 16 for rioting Politics, Society Production company: Peter Yam MOMENTS IN HONG KONG HISTORY against the colonial government in 1967. Chen fled Blue Island Production +852 95273303 from the Cultural Revolution in 1973, swimming Company Limited —THE PLACE THEY HAVE LIVED [email protected] across an angry sea in a dark stormy night. Lam Country of production: HALF THEIR LIVES. THEIR VALUES travelled to Beijing in 1989 to support the Chinese Hong Kong, China Catherine Chan SHARED WITH LARGER MOVEMENTS democratic movement. He bore witness to the Director: Tze Woon Chan +852 92129669 PAVED THE WAY TO HONG KONG. Tiananmen Massacre. Fate has once again put Producer: Peter Yam [email protected] HOW WILL THEY CONTINUE TO them in the middle of a revolution. Estimated Duration: SHAPE THE FUTURE? 90-120 minutes This is 2019, and Hong Kong is undergoing the Stage of Production: revolution of our time. How will the future play out Development for them, and for the people of Hong Kong?
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Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $431,900 Feature Secured finance: AUD $112,778 Hour (52'/60') Shortfall: AUD $319,122 70+ mins Financiers: Hong Kong Art Development Council Hong Kong Documentary Initiative ROUGH CUT SESSIONS
46 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 47 WRITER, DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER SENIOR EDITOR PRODUCER TOM ZUBRYCKI ROWENA CROWE GRANT LEIGH SAUNDERS
From 2007-2011, Grant Tom Zubrycki is a documentary Rowena holds a Masters of produced over 20 TV half-hour filmmaker whose career has Arts in Documentary Editing documentaries for the spanned 40 years. He has AFTRS and a Masters in Indigenous unit of ABC TV. He produced and/or directed more Animation from Animation St was commissioned to produce than 35 films, and has been Joost (Netherlands). She is a short comedy sketch called actively involved in a number of passionate about both long Black Santa for a Christmas industry organisations including and short form filmmaking special in 2013. the Australian Directors Guild and storytelling. Features she and OZDOX. His films include has edited have screened on In June 2018 he produced Kemira — Diary of a Strike (1984), broadcast television and played his first independent feature Homelands (1992), Lord of the in competition at international documentary Teach a Man to Bush (1998), The Diplomat film festivals, such as Teach A Fish, which was selected to (2000) and The Hungry Tide Man to Fish (2018, NITV) during premiere in competition at the (2011). He has received several the Sydney Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, where it awards including two AFI’s for Memoirs of a Plague (2011, placed 5th overall in the category Best Documentary, and two for Nat Geo) at the Amsterdam of Best Documentary and 2nd Best Director. International Film Festival. in the Audience Choice Awards.
BREAK IT DOWN UNDER
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BREAK IT DOWN UNDER Australian hip-hop has developed a distinct Music, Politics Production company: Grant Leigh Saunders CELEBRATES THE HISTORY OF cultural personality that reflects its Indigenous Sonic Nomad PTY LTD +61 (0)413266448 and multicultural base. The unifying issue that Country of production: AUSTRALIAN SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS [email protected] connects these artists is their experience of Australia HIP-HOP, VISUALLY DECONSTRUCTS Australian racism and their determination to Director: Grant Leigh Saunders THE POWERFUL MESSAGES overcome it, empowered through hip-hop. Finally Producers: Grant Leigh EXPRESSED AND INTRODUCES after 10 years of white Aussie hip-hop dominance, Saunders, Tom Zubrycki THE WORLD OF SONBOY, AN another sound that is black and brown is coming Estimated Duration: 80 mins ABORIGINAL TRAP ARTIST FROM up from the underground. This film visually Stage of Production: REDFERN SYDNEY. explores some of the lyrical content of Aussie Post-production hip-hop, focusing on Sonboy. Having lived and seen it all, Sonboy’s story provides the audience with a real example of the relationship between hip-hop and social justice activism. FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION LINKS
Single /One-off Total budget: AUD $300,000 sonicnomad.com.au Feature Secured finance: AUD $24,000 70+ mins Shortfall: AUD $276,000 Financiers: Screen Australia
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48 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 49 DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER HUAQING JIN XINYI LI
Huaqing Jin has directed films Li Xinyi is a young director and Living with Shame, Blossom producer. She worked as the with Tears, The Endless Road, production manager of and others, received 55 film documentary The Tibetan Girl, festival awards such as 7th as the screenwriter of short film Green Film Festival in Seoul’s Sheep Dotting Hillside, which Best Film, 9th Mexico City won at the the 33rd Tehran International Film Festival Best International Short Film Festival TV Documentary, and Best Best Documentary, the Documentary at the 33rd Tehran American Focus Film Award International Short Film Festival. Bronze Award. She is the production manager and He has served on film juries assistant director of including the 21st Asian documentary Dark Red Forest. International Film Festival in Vesoul NETPAC and the 31st Herceg Novi — Montenegro International Film Festival.
DARK RED FOREST
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WE OBSERVE THE MYSTERIOUS DAILY When the coldest days come, the nuns begin Culture, Society, Woman, Production company: Huaqing Jin LIVES OF NUNS IN A MONASTERY meditation in the small wooden houses in the Religion. Jin Huaqing Studio +8618395960010 mountains. One hundred days later, it is still Country of production: ON A REMOTE PLATEAU, EXPLORING [email protected] heavily snowing when they walk out. China THEIR DEEP INNER WORLDS IN Director: Huaqing Jin A WAY THAT INSPIRES THOUGHT Divination is carried out before the Spring Festival. Producer: Huaqing Jin ABOUT OUR OWN RELATIONSHIP We learn of the physical strain, the disappearance Estimated Duration: 85 mins WITH THE WORLD. of relatives, the release of souls, and the dialogues Stage of Production: between nuns and the guru: full of Oriental wisdom, Production / Rough cut involving life and death. The celestial burial place is in a rainstorm, and the crimson robes have turned into flying butterflies in the flames.
After the summer, new state laws force many nuns to leave the mountain. The nuns bid farewell FORMAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION to the guru with tears, and the guru tells them that everything is impermanent... Feature Total budget: AUD $708,100 Hour (52'/60') Secured finance: AUD $568,200 Shortfall: AUD $139,900 Financiers: Self-financed
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50 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 51 WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER PRODUCER GEOFF MORRISON MARC SERPA FRANCOEUR & ROBINDER UPPAL
Marc Serpa Francoeur Geoff Morrison is a Toronto- and Robinder Uppal are based filmmaker and founder documentary filmmakers and of Big Cedar Films. Working interactive producers whose primarily in documentary and work builds on lifelong interests interactive media, his work has in immigration, diversity, and screened at the Berlinale, TIFF, social justice issues. The Rotterdam, SXSW, Hot Docs, World in Ten Blocks (2016), and the MoMA in New York. a feature-length interactive Recent projects include the documentary, was featured at CSA and Banff-nominated doc Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, series, Farm Crime (CBC), short and launched with The Globe form anthology, Brand Canada and Mail. Other films include (CBC), acclaimed mystery doc, The Royal Women Association The Missing Tourist (CBC POV), (2015), and The Head & The and multi award-winning cross- Hand (2018), which DOC NYC platform series, The National listed as a contender for Oscars’ Parks Project (Discovery). Documentary Short category. NO VISIBLE TRAUMA
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THE LIVES OF THREE MEN AND THEIR No Visible Trauma examines a deeply troubled Society, Politics, Crime, Production company: Geoff Morrison FAMILIES ARE TORN APART BY THE police department and reveals the devastating Social Justice Lost Time Media and +1 4169976834 consequences of officers not being held to Big Cedar Films VIOLENT ACTIONS OF CALGARY [email protected] account for violent behaviour. Despite its relatively Country of production: POLICE OFFICERS AND A JUSTICE low crime rates, recent years have seen the Canada SYSTEM THAT REFUSES TO HOLD Calgary Police Service shoot and kill Director: Marc Serpa THEM ACCOUNTABLE. disproportionately high numbers of people, more Francoeur, Robinder Uppal than either the New York or Chicago police Producers: departments in 2018. The film unravels the Geoff Morrison, Marc Serpa intertwined stories of three individuals who were Francoeur, Robinder Uppal the victims of severe violence at the hands of Estimated Duration: police officers, while exposing a criminal justice 90/52/44 mins; interactive visual system that lacks functional safeguards to ensure podcast; 6 x 15 mins for web public trust and deter the abuse of power. Stage of Production: Rough to Fine Cut
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Feature Total budget: AUD $686,228 losttimemedia.com TV Hour (52'/44') Secured finance: AUD $456,793 bigcedarfilms.com and a companion new media Shortfall: AUD $165,435 component, which is in Financiers: CBC, Canadian Tax ROUGH CUT SESSIONS late-stage development. Credits, Hot Docs
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56 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 57 GHOSTHUNTER PITCH WITNESS THE UNCOVERED AUSTRALIA CO-PRESENTED BY SCREEN AUSTRALIA AND AL JAZEERA, THE AUSTRALIA UNCOVERED IS A NEW LANDMARK SINGLE $300,000 WITNESS PITCH GIVES EARLY-CAREER FILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY STRAND FOR SBS, FEATURING UNIQUE AND THE CHANCE TO PITCH A 25-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY TO BE COMPELLING STORIES ABOUT CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA. RELEASED AS PART OF AL JAZEERA’S FLAGSHIP DOCUMENTARY STRAND, WITNESS.
MONDAY 2 MARCH WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 11:30 –13:00 15:45 –17:15 CONVERSATION QUARTER VILLAGE ROADSHOW THEATRETTE
Five projects will pitch to a panel AT THE COALFACE Co-presented by SBS and Australia Uncovered will feature including representatives from Director: Anu Hasbold the Documentary Australia up to eight single documentaries Al Jazeera and Screen Australia, Foundation, the Australia ranging from one hour to feature- with up to three receiving FUTURE REMAINS: WHAT Uncovered Pitch at AIDC 2020 length, that explore diversity a $100,000 commission to NEXT FOR MUNGO MAN? allows shortlisted projects the and equality in contemporary produce a documentary to be Director/Co-writer: Vera Hong chance to share in up to $80,000 Australia, with the aim of released across Al Jazeera in development funds, with contributing to positive social platforms including television, GIVE US GREEN, DARLING! commissioned projects set change. Director: Caro Macdonald online and apps. for broadcast on SBS in 2021. SALAAM: STRINGS THAT CRY FOR PEACE Director: Steven Alyian
THIS IS REALITY Director: Chris Phillips
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58 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 59 REEL SMART 61 ACADEMIC PITCH
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE PRESENTED BY The intent of Reel Smart is to inspire collaborative efforts research into academic turn to screen nonfiction engaging content for television, theatrical and online audiences. THE REEL SMART ACADEMIC PITCH PROVIDES FIVE LA TROBE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS WORKING ACROSS SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO PITCH THEIR RESEARCH PROJECTS TO DOCUMENTARY AND FACTUAL PRODUCERS. 3 MARCH TUESDAY 14:00 –15:00 SEMINAR ROOMS
. AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE AUSTRALIANA – BURLESQUE AUSTRALIANA – BURLESQUE BOYS Director/Producer: Director/Producer: BrothersonMiles Producer: Marlee Hutton EP: Jodie Bell OUTBACK UFO RANCH Director/Writer: Anthony Frith Producer: Rebecca Elliot WHITE FELLA IN A HOLE Director/Producer: Lawton Barclay Jessica THE FOR SEARCHING TIGER TASSIE Director: Naomi Ball Producers: David Elliot-Jones & Louis Dai WURRANDON MARIWILI delves beyond the PRESENTED BY CO-PRESENTED BY VICE AUSTRALIA AND SCREEN AUSTRALIA, PITCH AUSTRALIANA IS A PITCHING COMPETITION OFFERING LOCAL FILMMAKERS THE CHANCE TO WIN A $50,000 COMMISSION FOR A SHORT-FORM DOCUMENTARY FOR VICE’S SERIES, AUSTRALIANADIGITAL TENTPOLE 4 MARCH WEDNESDAY 11:30 –13:00 VILLAGE ROADSHOW THEATRETTE Australiana pillars of our national identity to present a raw and diverse portrait of modern Australia, focusing on perspectivesthe individuals, of communities and subcultures from across the country that are ignored. or overlooked winning the completed, When project will premier online through VICE and also be VICELAND. SBS on broadcast
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AUSTRALIANA 60 CO-PRESENTED BY AUDIBLE AND AIDC, SOUND IT OUT IS A $10,000 AUDIO DOCUMENTARY PITCHING INITIATIVE DESIGNED TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION STORYTELLING. www.kanopy.com SOUND IT OUT
WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH Proudly CONVERSATION QUARTER Not a public pitch. Private meetings held during Cut to the Chase.
Returning for its second year, Sound it Out provides a platform for factual storytellers to pitch original audio documentary concepts to Supporting Audible. Up to a total of $10,000 in development funding will be distributed across the pitching initiative to successful projects, with the potential for these unique productions to form part of Audible.com.au’s AIDC original content line-up.
2020 “We’re excited to be reprising our pitching program with the AIDC. Last year’s initiative attracted some excellent entries and production outcomes, demonstrating how many factual screen creators are now looking to expand into audio to develop projects and tell stories best suited to the listening experience.”
Ben Naparstek Director, Original Content Audible Australia and New Zealand
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 63 PRESENTED BY AIDC AND THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE, RAW DATA, REAL STORIES IS A $60,000 PITCHING INITIATIVE THAT CELEBRATES Money Transfer EXPERIMENTATION AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN STORY AND TECHNOLOGY.
For Raw Data, Real Stories 2020, four teams have received $5,000 each to support working with a technology team to develop a proof of concept. REAL STORIES REAL RAW DATA These projects will be pitched at AIDC 2020, competing for the chance to receive $40,000 of project funds to turn their raw data into a new creative work for a real audience.
SUNDAY 1 MARCH 14:45 –16:00 VILLAGE ROADSHOW THEATRETTE
2020 RAW DATA, REAL STORIES PROJECTS
HOOKED: THE NUMBERS BEHIND AUSTRALIA’S GAMBLING OBSESSION ABC News Data Journalist: Inga Ting Supervising Producer: Stephen Hutcheon Video Journalist: Jack Fisher , Developer: Nathanael Scott Digital Journalist: Mark Doman Designer: Alex Palmer Audience Development Producer: Michael Workman
THE IMPACTS OF GROWING COTTON IN THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN The Conversation Data and Interactives Editor: Emil Jeyaratnam Head of Digital Storytelling: Sunanda Creagh
ACCESSING ABORTION (WORKING TITLE) The Saturday Paper & Small Multiples Contributing Investigative Reporter: Justine Landis-Hanley Editor: Maddison Connaughton Development Team: Small Multiples Industry tailored foreign currency services
BILL OF HEALTH: COUNTING THE HUMAN COST OF CLIMATE CHANGE for your documentary screen projects SBS Labs Creative Technologist: Ramkumar Shankar Your documentary project may have a foreign currency need arising from foreign currency Manager & EP, SBS Digital Creative Labs: John-Paul Marin Creative and Technical Lead: Matt Smith denominated financing or shooting in international locations. Producer: Sasha Gallagher XE’s services will ensure your production budget is protected against exchange rate fluctuations whilst transacting at competitive rates. PRESENTED BY A trusted name within the Australian screen production industry, the XE team will equip you with the tools and the knowledge to effectively execute your foreign currency needs.
64 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE To learn more, contact the XE team at [email protected]. THE MEET YOUR MAKER: XR PITCH IS PURPOSE-BUILT FOR NONFICTION CREATORS WORKING IN THE XR SECTOR, ALLOWING THEM TO MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS WITH DECISION MAKERS FROM AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD.
An umbrella category that covers various forms of computer-altered reality—including Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), XR PITCH MEET YOUR MAKER: and Virtual Reality (VR)—the XR pitch is designed to provide project exposure to key players such as international decision makers, state and federal funding agencies, museums, film festivals and more.
SUNDAY 1 MARCH 16:30 –17:30 VILLAGE ROADSHOW THEATRETTE
MEET YOUR MAKER: XR PITCH PROJECTS
CANOPY: LOVE LETTERS TO OUR TREES An interactive VR documentary using scientific data to explore the complex relationship between humans and the natural world
Wilding Productions & Visitor.vision Writer/Producer: Kate Pappas Technical Director: Charles Henden Art Director: Craig Bowler Concept Artist: Adam Parata Researcher/Scientific Consultant: Calvin Lee
FORGOTTEN If you disappeared, how long before someone noticed? An interactive room-scale VR installation that immerses users 0201 in the extreme world of isolation.
StarSapphire Productions & Ai3D Co-Producer/Director: Grania Kelly Co-Producer: Sue Clothier
Developer: Ai3D 03 JANE 02 STRANGE BEASTS MINDING THE GAP 01
JUMP BLUE Memory and sensation fragment and intertwine in the final descent of Russian freediver Natalia Molchanova, who disappeared on a routine dive in 2015.
Pernickety Split Pty Ltd Producer: Emma Roberts Director: Ben Joseph Andrews Developer: Lachlan Sleight
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66 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 67 DECISION A&E US ABC AUS 01 AL JAZEERA MEDIA NETWORK QAT/MYS ARTE FRA AUDIBLE AUSTRALIA AUS AUTLOOK AUT/USA BBC UK BBC SCOTLAND UK 04 COLLISIONS 03 02 BLUE ISLAND 01 VALERIE BEYOND DISTRIBUTION AUS THE KINGDOM: HOW FUNGI MADE OUR WORLD CBC CAN CHANNEL 5 UK CINEFLIX RIGHTS UK DISCOVERY UK DOCUMENTARY NEW ZEALAND TRUST NZ DOGWOOF UK DOK LEIPZIG DEU ESPN USA FLAME INTERNATIONAL AUS FOXTEL AUS THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE AUS HOT DOCS CAN IMAGINENATIVE CAN FRA 02 04 JAVA FILMS LITTLE DOT STUDIOS UK MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AUS MIFF PREMIERE FUND AUS NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA CAN THE NEW YORK TIMES USA NHK JPN MEET THE NINE NETWORK AUS NITV AUS COMMISSIONERS, SBS AUS BROADCASTERS SIDEWAYS FILM UK/ESP AND FUNDERS SKY NEW ZEALAND NZ SUNDANCE INSTITUTE USA WHO CAN MAKE TCB MEDIA RIGHTS UK YOUR PROJECT TV3, TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA ESP A REALITY TVF INTERNATIONAL UK
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68 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 69 A&E ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER
BRAD HOLCMAN RICHARD BUCKHAM TERI CALDER JO CHICHESTER KALITA CORRIGAN MIRANDA CULLEY KATH EARLE JULIE HANNA (US) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) SENIOR DIRECTOR, MANAGER ARTS IMPACT PRODUCER MANAGER, REGIONAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, HEAD REGIONAL, MANAGER – FACTUAL A&E UNSCRIPTED COMMISSIONS PRODUCTION & LOCAL ABC ARTS ABC ARTS LOCAL, SPORT COMMISSIONS, & ALTERNATIVE COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS, AND EVENTS PRODUCTION PROGRAMMING CO-PRODUCTIONS, POST PRODUCTION, CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS, ACQUISITIONS, PRODUCTION PRE-SALES PRE-SALES CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS, PRE-SALES, CO-PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTION
STYLE CURRENTLY BIO CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY Observational LOOKING FOR Teri leads social impact LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Documentary, Presenter Series ideas for arts with campaigns for ABC Singles or 2-3 x 60' series ABC Arts is interested in Our slate of productions Prime-time series, Factual content that can Led/Participatory, focussed audience appeal. documentary series such arts and culture across includes studio-based Singles/one-offs. push the boundaries and GENRES Creative Doc, Hybrid as War on Waste—The the spectrum— shows, documentary Multi-platform ideas. contributes to our STYLE Culture, Factual Battle Continues, Don’t photography, design, film series and one-offs, Sports documentaries. national conversation. GENRES Observational Entertainment, Human Stop The Music, Old and video, literature, interview and review Crime, Current Affairs Documentary, Presenter Interest, Sport STYLE STYLE People's Home for 4 Year music, visual arts, shows, presenter led & Investigative, Factual Led/Participatory, Observational Observational Olds and the upcoming FORMAT performance, dance, series, hybrid docu- Entertainment, Human Creative Doc, Hybrid Documentary, Presenter Documentary, Presenter climate series Fight for Series, Single/One-off, architecture, games, dramas and events. Our Interest, Lifestyle, Led/Participatory, Hybrid Led/Participatory, GENRES Planet A and Big Feature, Format, 52'/60', events and cross art-form Arts commissions must Social Justice Creative Doc, Hybrid Arts, Biographies, Culture, Weather. This includes 70+ mins, Multiplatform or hybrid practices. We include Australian content GENRES FORMAT Music producing digital content want to reflect the way and be produced by a Factual Entertainment, GENRES SUCCESSES/ Series, Single/One-off, and resources that that arts and culture is team that incorporates Human Interest, Lifestyle, Biographies, Crime, FORMAT COMMISSIONS Specials, Format, 30', support the campaign experienced by Australian citizens in at Sport, Travel & Adventure Culture, Environment, Series, Single/One-off, The Australian Dream, 52'/60', 70+ mins, Online, and national conversation. Australians of all ages least some of the key Factual Entertainment, Feature The Pool, Freeman FORMAT Multiplatform and from all walks of life. creative roles. We can History, Human Interest, STYLE Series, Single/One-off, abc.net.au BEST WAY TO PITCH? Diversity is important provide development Social Justice aetv.com Observational Short film, Feature, Follow the link to to ABC Arts and applies support. We can also do buckham.richard@ Documentary, Presenter Specials, Format, 30', FORMAT brad.holcman@ Regional, Local, Sport to location, subject post-production deals abc.net.au Led/Participatory, 52'/60', 70+ mins, Series, Single/One-off, aenetworks.com via our website abc.net. matter and talent (both for films that are already Creative Doc Multiplatform Specials, Format, 30', au/tv/independent; via on and off screen). shot, but not edited. 52'/60', Multiplatform GENRES email; via pitch meetings abc.net.au NUMBER OF SLOTS/ SUCCESSES/ Education, Environment, at AIDC. SUCCESSES/ HOURS COMMISSIONS earle.kath@ Factual Entertainment, COMMISSIONS abc.net.au 2-3 part series and single Mystify: Michael abc.net.au Natural History and Old People’s Home for episode TV hours for a Hutchence Wildlife, Social Justice chichester.jo@ 4 Year Olds, Aftermath: Tuesday 8.30 pm prime abc.net.au abc.net.au Beyond Black Saturday, FORMAT time audience. Blue-chip Shaun Micaleff’s On the Series, Short film, Online, feature documentaries for culley.miranda@ Sauce, Restoration Multiplatform Sunday 8.30pm broad abc.net.au Australia audience | co-viewing. abc.net.au abc.net.au calder.teri@ abc.net.au/tv/ hanna.julie@ abc.net.au independent/ arts_about abc.net.au corrigan.kalita@ abc.net.au
70 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 71 ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC AL JAZEERA ENGLISH BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER BROADCASTER, BROADCASTER PRODUCTION COMPANY
MADELEINE HAWCROFT RICHARD HUDDLESTON AIDEN LAVERTY KELRICK MARTIN JOSIE MASON- STEPHEN OLIVER PENNY PALMER FIONA LAWSON-BAKER (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) CAMPBELL (AUS) (AUS) (QAT) EP, DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, HEAD OF SPECIALIST HEAD OF INDIGENOUS (AUS) MANAGER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, EP OF AJE WITNESS – FACTUAL & DEVELOPMENT & CONTENT COMMISSIONS, HEAD OF DOCUMENTARIES CATALYST ACQUISITIONS, ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERSHIPS, COMMISSIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS, ENTERTAINMENT & COMMISSIONS, PRODUCTION COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS, FACTUAL & EQUITY INVESTMENT, FACTUAL; ACTING HEAD PRODUCTION CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS, ENTERINAMENT PRODUCTION OF PROGRAMMING PRODUCTION COMMISSIONS
CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Contemporary stories Bold stories that are Content in Arts, Science Powerful storytelling to Authentic, distinctive Stand out documentary Ideas with ambition Independent films that that are accessible, grab relevant to all Australians: and Specialist Factual. invigorate ABC’s slate content that engages, and factual projects told by and scale that present place people at the heart the attention of a broad contemporary stories Content with strong across Indigenous, challenges and surprises storytellers with something new science and/or of the story. With audience, ignite national that are accessible, grab Australian focus; that scripted documentary us. Shows that connect important to say. unique access in a inspirational and conversations and real the attention of a broad delivers on innovation in and affiliated domains. with our audiences, documentary form. provocative stories, and GENRES world change. Above all, audience, ignite national form. Includes documen- bringing laughter, intimate character-led GENRES Current Affairs & STYLE exceptional storytelling, conversations and real tary, series and events. discussion and debate. accounts, AJE Witness Indigenous Investigative, Observational strong directing and solid world change. Above all, Big ideas about big provides an insight into BIO Environment, Gender, Documentary, Presenter journalism are paramount. exceptional storytelling, FORMAT issues. Returnable the world’s key global Aidan oversees content History, Human Interest, Led/Participatory, Our programs must strong directing and solid Series, Single/One-off, brands or short one-offs. events as they impact across the genres of arts, Natural History & Wildlife, Creative Doc, Hybrid inspire and have a journalism are paramount. Short film, Specials, people’s daily lives. science, health and GENRES Science, Travel & reason to exist right now. Our programs must Format, 30', 52'/60', GENRES technology, religion Arts, Culture, Education, Adventure Other strands include: We encourage you to be inspire and have a reason Online, Multiplatform, Environment, Science, and ethics, education Factual Entertainment, People & Power 52 x 25'; brave, ambitious, to exist right now. Interactive SUCCESSES/ Technology and society and culture. Gender, Geopolitics, 101 East 52 x 25'; relevant, challenging, COMMISSIONS NUMBER OF SLOTS/ As Head of Specialist, he abc.net.au History, Human Interest, FORMAT Faultlines 52 x 25', and compelling, distinctive Love on the Spectrum, HOURS is responsible for Indigenous, Lifestyle, Series, Single/One-off, one off hours/half hours and thought provoking. martin.kelrick@ Waltzing the Dragon, One off documentaries distinctive content Music, Natural History & 52'/60', Online and special series of abc.net.au The Cult of the Family, SUCCESSES/ and series. Current across multiple genres Wildlife, Politics, Race, hours/ half hours across Employable Me. In 2020: abc.net.au/catalyst COMMISSIONS strategic focus is on and platforms, including Religion & Ethics, the schedule. Fight for Planet A: The Magical Land of Oz, commissioning for the TV series, audio content Science, Social Justice, Climate Challenge, GENRES Exposed: The Case of Keli main channel, including on ABC RN and podcasts Travel & Adventure, Youth Australia’s Ocean Arts, Current Affairs & Lane, Waltzing The Dragon iview and complementary by ABC Audio Studios. FORMAT Highway, Outback Ringer, Investigative, with Benjamin Law, The content on our social GENRES Series, Single/One-off, Revelation, Big Weather Geopolitics, Human Cult of The Family platforms. Arts, Science, Health Specials, Format, 30', Interest, Indigenous, BEST WAY TO PITCH? abc.net.au/tv abc.net.au/tv/ and Technology, Religion 52'/60' Politics, Social Justice With passion, knowledge independent/ independent/ and Ethics, Education, abc.net.au and humour in person. aljazeera.com/ factualdocumentary_ factualdocumentary_ Society & Culture programmes/witness about about.htm mason-campbell. abc.net.au abc.net.au [email protected] fiona.lb@ hawcroft.madeleine@ huddleston.richard@ oliver.stephen@ laverty.aidan@ aljazeera.net abc.net.au abc.net.au abc.net.au abc.net.au
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EMILE GUERTIN ANNE GROLLERON BEN NAPARSTEK STEPHANIE FUCHS CASSIAN HARRISON ABIGAIL PRIDDLE DAVID HARRON JOANNE AZZOPARDI (MYS) (FRA) (AUS) (AUT) (UK) (UK) (UK) (AUS) SENIOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, CONTENT FESTIVALS MANAGER CHANNEL EDITOR, COMMISSIONING COMMISSIONING SVP SALES AND COMMISSIONING SOCIETY AND AUSTRALIA ACQUISITIONS, BBC FOUR EDITOR, SPECIALIST EXECUTIVE, FACTUAL ACQUISITIONS, PRODUCER, CULTURE ACQUISITIONS, INTERNATIONAL SALES, ACQUISITIONS, FACTUAL COMMISSIONS, AUSTRALIA, NZ & ASIA AJE WITNESS COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS, PRE-SALES COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS ACQUISITIONS, ACQUISITIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS DISTRIBUTION, CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS DISTRIBUTION, COMMISSIONS PRODUCTION PRE-SALES
CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY STYLE CURRENTLY CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Observational LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Half hour observational, Geopolitics, Current Premium audio Feature documentaries Compelling factual Documentary, Presenter Always on the hunt for Factual entertainment character led Affairs, Investigation, documentaries and with strong narratives programming on Led/Participatory, exceptional access and (series preferred over documentaries. History, Society, series of 3 hours + with and appeal to historical and cultural Creative Doc, Hybrid great storytelling, and one offs), natural Human Interest. mass global appeal. international audiences. subjects with original projects which that work history / wildlife, science, STYLE GENRES approaches and/or for Scottish audiences, technology, lifestyle. Observational STYLE GENRES GENRES Biographies, Crime, compelling journalistic especially where there is Documentary Observational Arts, Biographies, Crime, Arts, Biographies, Crime, Culture, Current Affairs & STYLE depth and insight. other money on the table Documentary, Hybrid Culture, Current Affairs & Culture, Current Affairs & Investigative, Education, Observational GENRES making the investment Investigative, Education, Investigative, Education, STYLE Environment, Factual Documentary Culture, Environment, GENRES go further. Environment, Factual Environment, Gender, Presenter Led/ Entertainment, Gender, Gender, Human Interest, Culture, Current Affairs GENRES Entertainment, Gender, Geopolitics, History, Participatory, Creative History, Human Interest, GENRES Social Justice & Investigative, Crime, Environment, Geopolitics, History, Human Interest, Doc, Hybrid Natural History & Wildlife, Arts, Crime, Culture, Geopolitics, History, Factual Entertainment, FORMAT Human Interest, Indigenous, Lifestyle, Race, Religion & Ethics, History, Music Politics GENRES History, Human Interest, 30' Indigenous, Lifestyle, Music, Politics, Race, Science, Social Justice, Arts, Biographies, Crime, NUMBER OF SLOTS/ Lifestyle, Music, Natural FORMAT Music, Natural History & Religion & Ethics, Technology, Travel & SUCCESSES/ Culture, Environment, HOURS History & Wildlife, Single/One-off, 52'/60' Wildlife, Politics, Race, Science, Social Justice, Adventure, Youth COMMISSIONS History, Music, Religion Roughly 110 hours. Science, Technology, Religion & Ethics, Sport, Technology, Youth The Mortician of Manila, NUMBER OF SLOTS/ & Ethics, Science FORMAT Travel & Adventure Science, Social Justice, SUCCESSES/ Letters From Death Row, HOURS FORMAT Series, Single/One-off, Sport, Technology, Travel FORMAT COMMISSIONS FORMAT Radio Rohingya 6 slots (Thema, History, Series, Single/One-off, Feature, Specials, & Adventure, Youth Series, Single/One-off, Murder Case (Firecrest Series, Single/One-off Geopolitics, Society, Feature, 52'/60', 70+ mins Format, 52'/60', 70+ BEST WAY TO PITCH? Feature Films/BBC Scotland); Culture, Lucarne). FORMAT mins, Online, BEST WAY TO PITCH? Email with one-pager SUCCESSES/ Yes/No: Inside The Between 10 and 20 Series, Single/One-off, BEST WAY TO PITCH? Multiplatform, Interactive Email and/or face-to-face logline and synopsis, and COMMISSIONS Indyref (ST/BBC international productions Feature, Format, 70+ mins, Topline by email meetings. why this story now. For Sama, Midnight BEST WAY TO PITCH? Scotland); Real Kashmir a year. Online, Multiplatform Family, Jawline, Of bbc.co.uk/bbcfour Via BBC Pitch FC (Matchlight/Bodhi beyonddistribution. aljazeera.com/ BEST WAY TO PITCH? audible.com.au Fathers and Sons, Island Media/ BBC Scotland). com programmes/witness bbc.co.uk By email a short pitch of the Hungry Ghosts, naparste BEST WAY TO PITCH? joanne@ guertine@ and if possible a trailer Over the Limit, and series @amazon.com via BBC Pitch. beyonddistribution. aljazeera.net The Art of Museums. arte.tv com bbc.com/ autlookfilms.com a-grolleron@ aboutthebbc/ artefrance.fr stephanie@ scotland/ autlookfilms.com commissioning david.harron@ bbc.co.uk
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SUE DANDO GUY DAVIES KATE LAFFEY VICTORIA NOBLE ALEX LEE OLI HARBOTTLE BRIGID O’SHEA ADAM NEUHAUS (CAN) (UK) (UK) (UK) (NZ) (UK) (DEU) (USA) EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE COMMISSIONING VP, ACQUISITIONS VP ORIGINAL CONTENT, DIRECTOR HEAD OF DISTRIBUTION HEAD OF DOK DIRECTOR OF OF PRODUCTION, THE EDITOR (VP) FACTUAL ACQUISITIONS, FACTUAL PROGRAMMING, AND ACQUISITIONS INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT NATURE OF THINGS COMMISSIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS, COLLABORATIONS ACQUISITIONS, FESTIVAL ACQUISITIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS DISTRIBUTION, CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS, PROGRAMMING COMMISSIONS INTERNATIONAL SALES, DISTRIBUTION, PRE-SALES EQUITY INVESTMENT, INTERNATIONAL SALES
CURRENTLY CURRENTLY STYLE CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Observational LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Doc ideas that feature Series, one offs, Documentary Long running returning Outstanding theatrical Features and series Projects in all stages for Looking for projects great storytelling as well presenter-led, formats & series, key genres features, shorts and which can work for the DOK Industry that touch sports, GENRES as strong science. popular factual—UK include: tough jobs, innovative interactive international audiences at Programmes and can competition, athleticism Biographies, Crime, subjects and interests— turbo, science, digital content. any stage of production, advise on festival and adventure. GENRES Current Affairs & we are a very UK-centric adventure, and survival. either for us to come in at strategies. Also Environment, Natural Investigative, Factual STYLE STYLE channel. Very interested an early stage to help institutions looking to History & Wildlife, Entertainment, History, GENRES Observational Observational however in Specialist co-develop and produce, partner with DOK Leipzig Science, Technology Human Interest, Lifestyle, Factual Entertainment, Documentary, Presenter Documentary, Presenter Factual populist projects or at a later stage to for delegations or country Natural History & Wildlife, History, Human Interest, Lead/Participatory, Led/Participatory, FORMAT of scale for copro with handle worldwide sales focus programmes. Science, Technology Lifestyle, Science, Poetic/Stylised/ Poetic/Stylised/Animated Single/One-off international and/or UK distribution. Technology, Travel Animated, Hybrid STYLE Documentary, Hybrid broadcasters. No FORMAT SUCCESSES/ & Adventure GENRES Observational completed projects. Series, Format FORMAT GENRES COMMISSIONS Arts, Biographies, Crime, Documentary, Creative FORMAT Single/One-off, Feature, Culture, Current Affairs The Kingdom: How Fungi NUMBER OF SLOTS/ cineflixrights.com Culture, Environment, Doc, Hybrid Series, Single/One-off, Theatrical, Online, & Investigative, Human Made Our World, Jumbo: HOURS Geopolitics, Human [email protected] Specials, 52'/60', Cross-platform, Specials, GENRES Interest, Sport Life of an Elephant Up to 400 hours a year Interest, Music, Politics, Multiplatform Short, 90+ mins Arts, Biographies, Superstar, Under Thin Ice. across established series Sport FORMAT Culture, Current Affairs and new projects. SUCCESSES/ BEST WAY TO PITCH? Series, Short film, BEST WAY TO PITCH? NUMBER OF & Investigative, COMMISSIONS Please provide a Feature, Multiplatform A 2-pager sent to me or SUCCESSES/ SLOTS/HOURS Environment, Gender, Ed Stafford First, Man screener and synopsis [email protected] for The COMMISSIONS 20 features and 3 series Geopolitics, History, BEST WAY TO PITCH? Out (6x60), Aussie Gold, Nature of Things. For Michael Palin In North docedge.nz a year. Human Interest, Strong paper, or, if Hunters, Outback Opal other CBC strands: CBC Korea, The Abused, Indigenous, Music, character-based, short Hunters [email protected] SUCCESSES/ POV (first-person, Critical Condition, Politics, Race, Religion & teaser. COMMISSIONS Canadian stories); Raped: My Story BEST WAY TO PITCH? Ethics, Social Justice, International sales: espn.com Documentary Channel Top line on the idea in an Youth BEST WAY TO PITCH? Cunningham, Mystify: (international & Canadian email adam.neuhaus@ By email top lines or two Michael Hutchence, BEST WAY TO PITCH? feature-length docs); espn.com page treatments. Sizzle corporate.discovery. Maiden; UK distribution: Email The Passionate Eye reels welcome. com Apollo 11, Free Solo (international acquisiti- dok-leipzig.de victoria_noble@ ons); CBC Short Docs Channel5.com dogwoof.com [email protected] (emerging Canadian discovery.com guy.davies@ [email protected] filmmakers). channel5.com cbc.ca [email protected]
76 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 77 FLAME DISTRIBUTION FOXTEL THE GOOGLE NEWS HOT DOCS IMAGINENATIVE JAVA FILMS LITTLE DOT STUDIOS MELBOURNE DISTRIBUTOR BROADCASTER INITIATIVE FILM FESTIVAL, FILM FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTOR, SALES AGENT BROADCASTER, INTERNATIONAL FUNDING ORGANISATION, FUNDING ORGANISATION DISTRIBUTOR, FUNDING FILM FESTIVAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNER ORGANISATION, FILM FESTIVAL PRODUCTION COMPANY
FIONA GILROY ELISSA MCKEAND NIC HOPKINS STEPHANIE MCARTHUR JASON RYLE REBECCA NICHOLLS ALEX HRYNIEWICZ KATE FITZPATRICK (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (CAN) (CAN) (FRA) (UK) (AUS) CONTENT SALES NETWORK EXECUTIVE NEWS LAB LEAD – INDUSTRY PROGRAMS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACQUISITIONS & SALES HEAD OF OWNED PROGRAM MANAGER, AND ACQUISITIONS PRODUCER AUSTRALIA & NEW MANAGER FESTIVAL MANAGER CHANNELS PROGRAMMER- DIRECTOR COMMISSIONS ZEALAND EQUITY INVESTMENT, PROGRAMMING ACQUISITIONS, ACQUISITIONS, SCHOOLS + VR ACQUISITIONS, GRANTS/FUNDING, GRANTS/FUNDING INTERNATIONAL SALES COMMISSIONS, FESTIVAL CO-PRODUCTIONS, TECHNOLOGY CO-PRODUCTIONS, PROGRAMMING DISTRIBUTION, PARTNER DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL SALES
CURRENTLY STYLE CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR Observational LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Compelling content that Documentary, Presenter Potential partnerships or Hot Docs Industry funds Documentaries of all Primarily investigative Mid-form docs (15-30 New and innovative deals with global issues. Led/Participatory sponsorship opportuni- international projects formats and genres films with a journalistic mins) that can be VR work. ties around innovation in through CrossCurrents, (including any digital style and documentaries commissioned as pilots STYLE GENRES STYLE journalism and factual a fund that supports media works) for that tell a compelling for bigger series/feature Observational Crime, Factual Observational storytelling. emerging filmmakers potential programming story with international length ideas. Films must Documentary, Presenter Entertainment, Human Documentary, Presenter from communities at imagineNATIVE. appeal, preferably with a have a pathway to grow Led/Participatory Interest, Lifestyle, Social BIO Led/Participatory, whose perspectives 52' version. into something bigger, or Justice, Travel Nic Hopkins is the STYLE Creative Doc, Hybrid GENRES have been historically be innovative/impactful & Adventure Google’s News Lab lead Observational GENRES Biographies, Crime, underrepresented. Hot enough to garner GENRES in Australia and New Documentary, Presenter Arts, Biographies, Culture, Current Affairs & FORMAT Docs is seeking projects international awards Arts, Biographies, Crime, Zealand, responsible for Led/Participatory, Crime, Current Affairs Investigative, Education, Series, Single/One-off, for the Market (Hot Docs recognition. Culture, Current Affairs & Google’s work with Creative Doc, Hybrid & Investigative, Environment, Factual Feature, Specials, Forum, Hot Docs Deal Investigative, Education, newsrooms and Environment, Gender, GENRES Entertainment, Gender, Format, 30', 52'/60', Maker, Distribution GENRES Environment, Gender, publishers in training, Geopolitics, History, Crime, Factual Geopolitics, History, Online, Multiplatform Rendezvous and Doc Indigenous Geopolitics, History, innovation and industry Science Entertainment, History, Human Interest, Shop) and are interested Indigenous, Music, BEST WAY TO PITCH? partnerships. Nic joined FORMAT Human Interest Indigenous, Lifestyle, in films that may be a fit NUMBER OF Natural History & Wildlife, Send overview email with Google in 2016 after Single/One-off, Short Natural History & Wildlife, for Hot Docs festival SLOTS/HOURS NUMBER OF Politics, Race, Religion & pitch document and sizzle a career in journalism film, Feature, Politics, Race, Religion screenings. Per year 12 features, SLOTS/HOURS Ethics, Science, Social link (if available) to spanning more than Multiplatform, Interactive & Ethics, Science, Social 50 TV hours, 3-5 projects 20 Mid-form docs in 2020, Justice, Sport, [email protected] two decades. BEST WAY TO PITCH? Justice, Sport, BEST WAY TO PITCH? in development. 20 Fixed-fee Acquisitions, Technology, Travel & Submission to all of Hot Technology, Travel foxtel.com.au GENRES In person and via email unlimited revenue share Adventure, Youth Docs programs are done SUCCESSES/ & Adventure, Youth Technology for more information and commissions. production@ via online application COMMISSIONS FORMAT context. Festival FORMAT foxtel.com.au FORMAT forms which are available The Trial of Ratko Mladic littledotstudios.com Series, Feature, 70+ mins, submissions via our online Series, Single/One-off, Online, Multiplatform, on our website at Interactive submission platform BEST WAY TO PITCH? alex.hryniewicz@ Feature, Specials, Format, Interactive hotdocs.ca/i through our website. Via email with short littledotstudios.com BEST WAY TO PITCH? 30', 52'/60', 70+ mins BEST WAY TO PITCH? hotdocs.ca synopsis and preferably Verbal Pitches, Rough imaginenative.org BEST WAY TO PITCH? By email smcarthur@ trailer—even better with a cuts of WIP, Presentation Via email jryle@ link to a rough cut. of previous work, follow newsinitiative. hotdocs.ca imaginenative.org up links etc flamedistribution.com withgoogle.com javafilms.fr miff.com.au fgilroy@ nichopkins@ contact@ flamedistribution.com google.com javafilms.tv fitzpatrick@ miff.com.au
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MARK WOODS ROB MCLAUGHLIN LINDSAY CROUSE HIDETOSHI NAKAMOTO ADRIAN SWIFT CIERON CODY KYAS SHERRIFF KYLIE BOLTIN (AUS) (CAN) (USA) (JPN) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, SENIOR SERIES SENIOR PRODUCER HEAD OF CONTENT COMMISSIONING SENIOR COMMISSIONING COMMISSIONS, ENGLISH PROGRAM PRODUCER ACQUISITIONS, PRODUCTION AND EDITOR COMMISSIONING EDITOR ONLINE EQUITY INVESTMENT, DIGITAL STUDIO ACQUISITIONS, COMMISSIONS, DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONS EDITOR DOCUMENTARIES GRANTS/FUNDING CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONS COMMISSIONS PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION PRODUCTION
CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Films that fit the Premiere Projects that explore or Creative, relevant short Current affairs, Factual entertainment. Indigenous series content Broad Indigenous Interactive Fund branding of “stories utilize the creative films. heart-warming human that can meet NITV’s content. Series. documentaries STYLE that need telling”. application of mobile, stories, life stories, audience needs, with an Entertaining. Youth GENRES Observational STYLE Feature-length docs internet and immersive unique & unpredictable emphasis on entertaining focus. Arts, Biographies, Crime, Documentary, Presenter Presenter Led/ intended for theatrical technologies to stories stories. youth audience. Culture, Current Affairs & Led/Participatory, GENRES Participatory, Creative release, examples and art. Projects that Investigative, Education, STYLE Creative Doc, Hybrid GENRES Biographies, Culture, Doc, Hybrid include Bastardy, The have a meaningful Environment, Factual Observational Arts, Biographies, Crime, Education, Environment, Coming Back Out Ball connection to Canada. GENRES GENRES Entertainment, Gender, Documentary Culture, Environment, Factual Entertainment, Movie, The Eulogy. Co-productions that can Biographies, Crime, Technology Geopolitics, History, Factual Entertainment, Indigenous, Youth Projects must include a include Canadian artists FORMAT Current Affairs & Human Interest, History, Human Interest, FORMAT Victorian-based producer and producers. Series, Single/One-off, Investigative, Factual FORMAT Indigenous, Lifestyle, Indigenous, Lifestyle, Interactive & the Victorian spend for 52'/60' Entertainment, Human Series, Short film, 30', STYLE Music, Natural History Music, Natural History project is required to be Interest, Lifestyle, Music, 52'/60', 70+ mins BEST WAY TO PITCH? Creative Doc, Hybrid and Wildlife, Politics, NUMBER OF & Wildlife, Politics, several times greater Natural History & Wildlife, Email is perfect in the Race, Religion & Ethics, SLOTS/HOURS Science, Social Justice, BEST WAY TO PITCH? than the amount sought GENRES Sport, Travel & Adventure first instance. Science, Social Justice, About 100 slots each Sport, Technology, Travel Verbal, with two from the fund. Arts, Culture, Education, Sport, Technology, Travel year. FORMAT & Adventure, Youth Indigenous key creatives sbs.com.au Environment, Gender, Not Seeking: Under 80 & Adventure, Youth Series, Single/One-off, and a finance plan. Human Interest, SUCCESSES/ FORMAT kylie.boltin@ mins duration; anything Specials, Multiplatform Indigenous, Lifestyle, FORMAT COMMISSIONS Series, Single/One-off, sbs.com.au/nitv/ sbs.com.au without some connection Music, Race, Religion & Series, Single/One-off, Leonardo: The Mystery ninenow.com.au Short film, Feature, to Victoria; anything kyas.sherriff@ Ethics, Science, Social Short film, Online, of the Lost Portrait, Specials, Format, 30', without Victorian spend. [email protected] sbs.com.au Justice, Technology Interactive The Secret Versailles of 52'/60', 70+ mins, Online, BEST WAY TO PITCH? Marie Antoinette Multiplatform, Interactive FORMAT SUCCESSES/ By email or during the four Online, Multiplatform, COMMISSIONS nhk.or.jp/ BEST WAY TO PITCH? funding rounds per year. Interactive Our short film Walk Run corporateinfo sbs.com.au/nitv/ miffpremierefund.com Cha-Cha is nominated article/2015/06/30/ nfb.ca nakamoto.h-fu@ [email protected] for an Oscar. nhk.or.jp work-nitv [email protected] nytimes.com/opdocs sbs.com.au/nitv/ lindsay.crouse@ cieron.cody@ nytimes.com sbs.com.au
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JOHN GODFREY MARSHALL HEALD SUSIE JONES JOSEPH MAXWELL KAZZ BASMA DANA YOUNGMAN SUDEEP SHARMA JIMMY HUMPHREY (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (AUS) (UK/ESP) (NZ) (US) (UK) HEAD OF UNSCRIPTED DIRECTOR TELEVISION COMMISSIONING HEAD OF HEAD OF SALES SENIOR PROGRAMMER, HEAD OF ACQUISITIONS ACQUISITIONS, & ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES AND ACQUISITIONS COMMISSIONER – SUNDANCE FILM & CO-PRODUCTIONS COMMISSIONS, ACQUISITIONS, DOCUMENTARIES COMMISSIONS, ACQUISITIONS, ENTERTAINMENT FESTIVAL ACQUISITIONS, CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS COMMISSIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTIONS, COMMISSIONS FESTIVAL COMMISSIONS, PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION, PROGRAMMING CO-PRODUCTIONS, INTERNATIONAL SALES, DISTRIBUTION, PRE-SALES PRE-SALES
STYLE STYLE CURRENTLY STYLE CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY CURRENTLY Observational Observational LOOKING FOR Observational LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR LOOKING FOR Documentary, Presenter Documentary, Presenter Factual series and Documentary, Presenter Strong and relevant Blue chip factual content Projects and filmmakers Specialist & popular Led/Participatory Led/Participatory, Hybrid one-offs that address Led/Participatory, Hybrid observational document- and Crime. for the Sundance Film factual, either returnable SBS’s charter. aries that unfold in a Festival. series, premium single or GENRES GENRES GENRES STYLE context of global interest, feature docs. Broad in Arts, Crime, Culture, Crime, Culture, Gender, STYLE Crime, Culture, Gender, Observational STYLE and investigative and terms of genre (no kids Current Affairs & Geopolitics, History, Observational Geopolitics, History, Documentary, Presenter Observational journalistic documentar- or sport programming). Investigative, Education, Human Interest, Documentary, Presenter Human Interest, Led/Participatory Documentary, Presenter ies in both the Current Environment, Factual Indigenous, Politics, Led/Participatory, Hybrid Indigenous, Politics, Led/Participatory, FORMAT Affairs or Science genres. GENRES Entertainment, Gender, Race, Religion & Ethics, Race, Religion & Ethics, Creative Doc, Hybrid Series, Single/One-off, GENRES Arts, Crime, Culture, Geopolitics, History, Science, Social Justice Science, Social Justice NUMBER OF Feature, 52'/60' Crime, Culture, Gender, Environment, Factual GENRES Human Interest, SLOTS/HOURS FORMAT History, Human Interest, FORMAT Entertainment, History, Arts, Biographies, Crime, NUMBER OF Indigenous, Lifestyle, We take on a maximum Series, Single/One-off, Indigenous, Race, Series, Single/One-off, Human Interest, Culture, Current Affairs & SLOTS/HOURS Politics, Race, Religion of 15 titles each year for Feature, Format, 52'/60' Science, Social Justice Feature, Format, 52'/60' Indigenous, Lifestyle, Investigative, Education, Acquiring/commissioning & Ethics, Social Justice, world sales and one or Music, Science, Youth Environment, Factual around 500 hours a year. Youth sbs.com.au/shows/ FORMAT sbs.com.au/shows/ two projects in which we Entertainment, Gender, commissionedcontent Series, Single/One-off, commissionedcontent help raise finance FORMAT SUCCESSES/ FORMAT Geopolitics, History, Feature, Format, 52'/60' through matchmaking Series, Single/One-off, COMMISSIONS Series, Single/One-off, Human Interest, co-pros and pre-sales. Short film, Feature, How Did They Build Short film, Specials, sbs.com.au Indigenous, Lifestyle, Specials, Format, 52'/60', That?, How I Created A 52'/60', Online, SUCCESSES/ Music, Natural History & susie.jones@ 70+ mins, Online, Cult, Lords of the Ocean, Multiplatform, Interactive COMMISSIONS Wildlife, Politics, Race, sbs.com.au Multiplatform Borderforce USA: The Nomad: In the Footsteps Religion & Ethics, sbs.com.au Bridges, Abandoned of Bruce Chatwin (from BEST WAY TO PITCH? Science, Social Justice, Engineering, john.godfrey@ Werner Herzog), The Rise A focused idea with Sport, Technology, Travel Underground Worlds. sbs.com.au of Jordan Peterson target audience, & Adventure, Youth (which reached No. 1 on experience of team, and BEST WAY TO PITCH? FORMAT iTunes), 100 Million Views articulation of style, tone, Happy with brief Series, Short film, (No 1 most screened title and feel. The best ideas treatment, or tape, or Feature, Interactive at MIPDOC) usually take the shortest whatever materials are amount of explanation. sundance.org available. sidewaysfilm.com sudeep_sharma@ kazz@ sky.co.nz tcbmediarights.com sundance.org sidewaysfilm.com dana.youngman@ jimmy.humphrey@ sky.co.nz tcbmediarights.com
82 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 83 84 Networks Social of Battle Raqqua, Single(d) out, Robin Bank, Back to Parade, Love Forum, Das COMMISSIONS SUCCESSES/ per year). (10-12 25-30' Reportatge: hours per year); (30 52' Affair: Current year); per hours (25 90' to 60' issues: social and fiction’) affairs – Current (‘non Ficció Sense HOURS NUMBER OF SLOTS/ to 90'. From Affairs. 30' Current human interest, polítics, issues, –Social formats Documentaries and LOOKING FOR CURRENTLY Social Justice Human Politics, Interest, Geopolitics, Investigative, & Affairs Current GENRES ACQUISITIONS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (ESP) MUNTSA TARRES BROADCASTER DE CATALUNYA TV3, TELEVISIÓ
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Led by Ontario Creates, AIDC’s Canadian focus includes participation by:
Karen Thorne-Stone, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Creates Sue Dando, Executive Producer, CBC Rob McLaughlin, Executive Producer, Digital Content & Strategy, National Film Board of Canada Stephanie McArthur, Industry Programs Manager, Hot Docs Jason Ryle, Executive Director, imagineNATIVE
Plus 11 production companies from across the spectrum of Canadian ONTARIO factual and documentary production. MEET THE CANADIAN DELEGATION AT:
CREATES THE CANADA CONNECT BREAKFAST, PRESENTED BY ONTARIO CREATES MONDAY 2 MARCH SUCCESS 8:00 – 9:00 SCREENRIGHTS INDUSTRY LOUNGE
THE CAN X AUS CO-PRO MARKET, PRESENTED BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF CANADA AND CANADIAN HERITAGE MONDAY 2 MARCH 16:00 – 17:15 SEMINAR ROOMS
International partnerships are key to success and we are proud to collaborate with AIDC. Come and meet our Ontario PRESENTED BY producers at one of the CAN x AUS program events. ontariocreates.ca
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96 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 97 AIDC IS LOCATED AT STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA IN 2020. PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH PUBLIC EVENT YOU’LL ALSO FIND SOME OF OUR EVENTS AT DIFFERENT PARTNERS ACMI, RMIT, ASIA TOPA AND THE LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WHEELER CENTRE, OUR SCREENINGS & TALKS PROGRAM CELEBRATES THE WORK OF AIDC 2020’S GUEST BE SURE TO EXPLORE THEM ALL. FILMMAKERS AND JOURNALISTS.
ALL AIDC 2020 SCREENINGS & TALKS ARE TICKETED EVENTS AND OPEN TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
CONFERENCE VENUES SCREENINGS
SESSIONS, FACTORY 2020, SESSIONS, FACTORY 2020 OUR TIME MACHINE CUT TO THE CHASE & ROUGH CUTS + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR S. LEO CHIANG ROUNDTABLES KALEIDE THEATRE CO-PRESENTED BY AIDC, ASIA TOPA, ACMI
VENUES STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA 360 SWANSTON ST AND THE WHEELER CENTRE TALKS & SCREENINGS 328 SWANSTON ST MELBOURNE MELBOURNE Shaken by news of his father’s dementia, Chinese artist Maleonn sets off to build a time machine.
SCREENINGS AIDC DELEGATE HUB SUNDAY 1 MARCH, 18:00 THE CAPITOL MR TULK THE CAPITOL 113 SWANSTON ST 328 SWANSTON ST 120 MINS (APPROX INC. Q&A) MELBOURNE MELBOURNE THE CAVE CO-PRESENTED BY ACMI & AIDC TALKS & INDIGENOUS CREATORS PROGRAM In a secret underground hospital in Syria, a female-led team risk their lives THE WHEELER CENTRE to provide medical care to the besieged local population. 176 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE MONDAY 2 MARCH, 18:30 THE CAPITOL 140 MINS HAPPY HOURS & PARTIES Free tickets will be made available to AIDC All Access, Gold, and Focus Pass-holders OPENING NIGHT IT’S YOUR ABC HAPPY HOUR 30 minutes before each film. Just show your pass at The Capitol Box Office. “IN COLOUR” PARTY PRESENTED BY ABC PRESENTED BY SBS IMPERIAL HOTEL (ROOFTOP) TALKS IAN POTTER QUEEN’S HALL, 2-8 BOURKE ST STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA MELBOURNE THE INVISIBLE CRIME 328 SWANSTON ST CO-PRESENTED BY THE AGE, THE WHEELER CENTRE AND AIDC, MELBOURNE WITH SPECIAL SUPPORT FROM THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE
The Invisible Crime presents a candid discussion around the barriers JUNGLE FEVER HAPPY HOUR THE SECRET GARDEN CLOSING to reporting sexual crime with a panel led by Age journalist Nicole Precel. PRESENTED BY KANOPY NIGHT PARTY HASTI BALA PRESENTED BY AL JAZEERA Her multimedia interactive documentary project The Invisible Crime: Are (THE CARLTON CLUB) GROUNDS OF ARCADIA We Failing Victims Of Sexual Assault? was completed after winning AIDC LEVEL 3, 193 BOURKE ST 280 WILLIAM ST (REAR OF THE 2019’s Raw Data, Real Stories pitch. MELBOURNE HELLENIC MUSEUM) TUESDAY 3 MARCH, 18:15 MELBOURNE THE WHEELER CENTRE PERFORMANCE SPACE 60 MINS OTHER Entry for this talk is free, however AIDC delegates should reserve their spot online TASTEMAKERS TABLE AIDC CRECHE at wheelercentre.com/events/the-invisible-crime BOMBA TAPAS BAR & ROOFTOP BRADY HOTELS CENTRAL 103 LONSDALE ST MELBOURNE MELBOURNE 30 LITTLE LA TROBE ST MELBOURNE
If you find it difficult to locate any of our venues, please ask one of our friendly volunteers. You’ll find them at our Registration Desk (situated at State Library Victoria, Conference Entry, La Trobe Street Entrance 3) and roaming the conference.
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11:30 Masters: Multi-Sensory Perspectives 11:30 with Robin McNicholas Presented by Film Victoria 12:00 12:00
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13:00 13:00 Telling Stories with Sound: 13:30 Masters: Finding Stories in Internet Listening Party 13:30 Data with Lam Thuy Vo Pres. by the Google News Initiative 14:00 14:00
BREAK 14:30 14:30 Bold New Futures with Raw Data, Real Stories Pitch 15:00 Lynette Wallworth Presented by the Google News 15:00 Presented by ACMI Initiative
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16:30 Who’s Who Part 1: Broadcasters, Meet your Maker: XR Pitch Indigenous Creators Program 16:30 Platforms & Festivals Presented by Screen Australia The Wheeler Centre Workspace 17:00 Invitation Only 17:00
17:30 Innovation Day Happy Hour 17:30 Co-Presented by the Google News Initiative & City of Melbourne 18:00 AIDC Delegate Hub Our Time Machine + Director Q&A 18:00 Co-Presented by AIDC, Asia TOPA, ACMI and The Wheeler Centre 18:30 The Capitol 18:30 Opening Night “In Colour” Party 19:00 Presented by SBS 19:00 Ian Potter Queen’s Hall
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102 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 103 REGISTRATION DESK CONFERENCE ENTRY AIDC DELEGATE HUB MONDAY 08:00 –17:30 ENTRANCE 3 MR TULK MONDAY LA TROBE ST 08:00 –17:00 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA
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08:00 Canada Connect Breakfast 08:00 Presented by Ontario Creates 08:30 08:30
09:00 Masters of Producing: Gordon FACTory 2020: Rough Cut Sessions 09:00 Quinn of Kartemquin Films Presented by The Post Lounge Presented by Film Victoria Invitation Only 09:30 Session preceded by Welcome Indigenous Creators Program Roundtables 09:30 to Country & Stanley Hawes Award Presented by Screen Australia Seminar Rooms Invitation Only 10:00 10:00
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11:00 BREAK Maximising the Foreign Dollar 11:00 Presented by Xe Money Transfer
11:30 The Witness Pitch Passport to the Big Leagues: What’s Preaching Beyond the Choir: 11:30 Co-Presented by Al Jazeera Next for International Networks The Art of Audience Engagement & Screen Australia Presented by Screen Territory Presented by Foxtel 12:00 12:00
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14:00 Revealing All: SBS & NITV Talk Firestarter: Collaboration from Let’s Make Ends Meet: 14:00 Strategy and Opportunity Stage to Screen Co-Producing with Canada Presented by SBS Presented by Screen NSW 14:30 14:30
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16:00 Sarah Ferguson in Conversation Crafting the Edit: The Final Quarter CAN x AUS Co-Pro Market 16:00 Presented by ABC Presented by Consulate General of Canada & Canadian Heritage 16:30 Seminar Rooms 16:30
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17:30 Upskill: Creating Character It’s Your ABC Happy Hour 17:30 with S. Leo Chiang Presented by ABC Presented by Edith Cowan Imperial Hotel 18:00 University 18:00
18:30 The Cave 18:30 Co-Presented by ACMI & AIDC The Capitol 19:00 19:00
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104 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 105 REGISTRATION DESK CONFERENCE ENTRY AIDC DELEGATE HUB TUESDAY 08:30 –17:30 ENTRANCE 3 MR TULK TUESDAY LA TROBE ST 08:00 –17:00 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA
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09:30 FACTory 2020: Arts & Culture The War on Press Freedom Masters: Ninder Billing on Making 09:30 Presented by Film Victoria (And what to do about it) Programs that People Will Watch Presented by ABC News (While not selling out) 10:00 10:00
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11:00 BREAK Design for Documentaries 11:00 Presented by 21-19
11:30 FACTory 2020: Society & Politics Beyond The Box: The Future of Pitch at First Sight 11:30 Presented by Film Victoria Storytelling is Collaborative Presented by Nine Network Presented by Screen Queensland 12:00 12:00
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13:00 Tastemakers Table 13:00 Meet the Commercials Bomba Tapas Bar and Rooftop BREAK Presented by Nine Network & Foxtel 13:30 13:30
14:00 FACTory 2020: Science & Real World Impact: TV with The Holy Grail: Making Money from Reel Smart Academic Pitch 14:00 Natural History Social Purpose the Education Sector Presented by La Trobe University Presented by Film Victoria Presented by ABC Seminar Rooms 14:30 14:30
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15:30 BREAK Streaming Thoughtful Entertainment 15:30 Presented by Kanopy
16:00 FACTory 2020: New Talent Masters: Creative Producing with Cracking the Code: Cashing in with Indigenous Creators Program 16:00 Presented by Film Victoria John Smithson Online Content Presented by Screen Australia Presented by Screen Tasmania Seminar Rooms 16:30 Invitation Only 16:30
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17:30 Upskill: Writing Documentary, Jungle Fever Happy Hour 17:30 Shaping Story Presented by Kanopy Hasti Bala (The Carlton Club) 18:00 18:00 The Invisible Crime Co-Presented by The Wheeler 18:30 18:30 Centre, The Age & AIDC with support from the Google News Initiative 19:00 The Wheeler Centre 19:00
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106 AIDC 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 107 REGISTRATION DESK CONFERENCE ENTRY AIDC DELEGATE HUB WEDNESDAY 08:30 –17:30 ENTRANCE 3 MR TULK WEDNESDAY LA TROBE ST 08:00 –17:00 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA
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09:30 Cut to the Chase Niche to Broad, Big to Lean: Masters: The Search for Justice Indigenous Creators Program 09:30 Concepts of Scale in Factual with Amy Berg Presented by Screen Australia Seminar Rooms 10:00 Invitation Only 10:00
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11:00 BREAK BREAK Telling Stories That Matter 11:00 Presented by Screenrights
11:30 Pitch Australiana Australian Formats, Global Reach 11:30 Co-Presented by Vice & Screen Australia 12:00 12:00
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13:00 Annual General Meeting 13:00 Velvet, Iron, Ashes Tour BREAK 13:30 Meet at Registration Desk 13:30
14:00 Making a Killing: Lessons from True Upskill: Documentary, Art, 14:00 Crime’s Golden Age New Frontiers Presented by Film Victoria 14:30 14:30
15:00 15:00 BREAK 15:30 15:30 Australia Uncovered Pitch 16:00 Presented by SBS 16:00
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17:30 17:30 The Secret Garden 18:00 Closing Night Party 18:00 Presented by Al Jazeera Grounds of Arcadia 18:30 18:30
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