AIDC 2016: the fine art of surviving terrorised financiers

Production crises make for good stories, but we don't normally think of the bankers. John Smithson describes the contract crisis behind Sherpa.
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Sherpa team resting. Image: Felix Media 

UK producer John Smithson has put his nervous system in harm’s way with a passion for documentaries with enormous scale, the superdocs which require huge resources and often cry out for cinema release. 

He is coming to the Australian International Documentary Conference to talk about these challenges, but he is also in some senses part of the antipodean documentary family.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.