Film
The ins and outs of the industry
Two people have stepped up, and two people have stepped out in arts industry movements on and off the stage.
AIDC 2013: the ABC Natural History Unit - a creation story
For many filmmakers, the ABC’s Natural History Unit was driven strongly by the BBC model, with those mellifluous Attenborough narrations.…
AIDC 2013: Independent Chinese documentary production
Three television businesspeople from the non-government sector in China slipped between the ying of bland generalisations and the yang of…
AIDC 2013: the format and the Fish On The Cake
This session perhaps should have been called Is Your Doc a Format - And If Not, Maybe It Should Be,…
AIDC 2013: ABC Arts commissioning, looking for online
ABC’s new Head of Arts, Katrina Sedgwick, and the new Arts commissioning editor, Mandy Chang, were full of enthusiasm for,…
AIDC 2013: Australian stories on Australian screens
The screen sector is up in arms about the dilution of Australian content on our TV screens. The title of…
AIDC 2013: alternative finance and distribution for documentaries
Do you want to be an Enterprise ship or an independent scrappy kayaker? ScreenHub’s Andrew Einspruch donned a lifejacket and…
AIDC 2013: battering the small fry
Can the lone documentary producer survive in the modern marketplace? Four experts from three countries believe that the answer is…
STUDIO: VCA glass animator wins promo competition
Glass animator Thom Fraser has been announced as the winner of STUDIO’s inaugural CREATE STUDIO competition at a Sydney event…
AIDC 2013: Evan Shapiro, Participant Media and the heroic idealism of the millenial child
Evan Shapiro is building a cable channel on the theory that the millenium generation wants to both change the world…