Sydney Film Festival announces 12 documentary finalists for 2021

The finalists competing for the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award have a strong sense of social purpose.

2 Sep 2021 15:18

Rochelle Siemienowicz

Film

Tosca Looby’s Strong Female Lead is one of the finalists. Image courtesy SBS.

The 68th Sydney Film Festival (SFF) has announced 12 new Australian documentaries selected to contest the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary.

The documentary finalist films will be screened in SFF’s November program with the winning film presented a $10,000 cash prize at the festival’s closing night on Sunday14 November.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.