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 waded into a watery metaphor of business models.
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Do you want to be an Enterprise ship or an independent scrappy kayaker? ScreenHub’s Andrew Einspruch donned a lifejacket and waded into a watery metaphor of business models.

Cathy Henkel is a producer, director, academic and researcher. She brings all of those skills to bear on her documentary projects, and recently has been looking into what it takes to navigate an independent path as a filmmaker. In a session called Riding the Freedom Streams at this year’s Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), she invited documentary makers to brave the waters of a freer path.

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Andrew Einspruch
About the Author
Andrew Einspruch has covered many conferences for Screenhub. His family production company has evolved into the story studio Wild Pure Heart, which is a vehicle for writing projects like his award winning humorous fantasy series, The Western Lands and All That Really Matters. He also helps to run a rescue farm and freelances as a technical writer.