AIDC 2016 – Patchwork funding

International funding has driven growth in the documentary sector for a generation, but now it looks like a game of survival.
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Image: just another day on location with a typical patchwork production – Medieval Dead.

If ever international financing was critical to the survival of Australian documentary companies, it has never been more so than now.  The outlook mirrors the Australian weather at the moment:  drought – and getting drier.  This is an El Nino for funding.

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John Lewis
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John Lewis started as a print journalist, and is now a hardened documentary producer whose experience covers high end science, dramatised documentaries and multimedia.