Two distinctly Australian stories have taken out the top prizes at the inaugural Aidc Awards, with Daniel Gordon’s The Australian Dream and Southern Pictures’ Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian awarded Best Feature Documentary and Best Documentary/Factual Series, respectively.
Held as a conclusion to this year’s Aidc, the awards ceremony crowned winners across six categories and distributed more than $200,000 of development funding and prizes.
The event was was broadcast live from Acmi in Melbourne to six cities around Australia.
It caps of this year’s online conference, which comprised more than 40 sessions across four days, and came with contributions from a diverse range of speakers and decision-makers.
The winners of the inaugural Aidc Awards are:
Best Feature Documentary
The Australian Dream
Daniel Gordon, Good Thing Productions & Passion Pictures.
Jury Statement: “In collaboration with Stan Grant, what Gordon finds in the story of Adam Goodes’ disgraceful public discrimination is potent,...
Held as a conclusion to this year’s Aidc, the awards ceremony crowned winners across six categories and distributed more than $200,000 of development funding and prizes.
The event was was broadcast live from Acmi in Melbourne to six cities around Australia.
It caps of this year’s online conference, which comprised more than 40 sessions across four days, and came with contributions from a diverse range of speakers and decision-makers.
The winners of the inaugural Aidc Awards are:
Best Feature Documentary
The Australian Dream
Daniel Gordon, Good Thing Productions & Passion Pictures.
Jury Statement: “In collaboration with Stan Grant, what Gordon finds in the story of Adam Goodes’ disgraceful public discrimination is potent,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Pursekey Productions director and principal producer Michaela Perske is the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) Stanley Hawes Award recipient for 2021.
Perske’s recognition was announced today alongside the 20 nominees for the inaugural Aidc awards.
Designed to recognise the “outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content”, the awards will be presented in person across eight cities, as well as livestreamed to Aidc delegates.
Originally trained as a journalist, Perske has over 20 years of media experience across radio, print and TV.
Since turning her hand to factual content, she has produced films including Girls Can’t Surf, Black Divaz, After the Apology, and Destination Arnold.
In announcing the award, the Aidc said it wanted to acknowledge “her outstanding contribution to the Australian documentary and factual sector”.
Australian practitioners had the opportunity to submit across six categories for the Aidc Awards: Best Feature Documentary, with a $5,000 cash prize presented by Doc...
Perske’s recognition was announced today alongside the 20 nominees for the inaugural Aidc awards.
Designed to recognise the “outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content”, the awards will be presented in person across eight cities, as well as livestreamed to Aidc delegates.
Originally trained as a journalist, Perske has over 20 years of media experience across radio, print and TV.
Since turning her hand to factual content, she has produced films including Girls Can’t Surf, Black Divaz, After the Apology, and Destination Arnold.
In announcing the award, the Aidc said it wanted to acknowledge “her outstanding contribution to the Australian documentary and factual sector”.
Australian practitioners had the opportunity to submit across six categories for the Aidc Awards: Best Feature Documentary, with a $5,000 cash prize presented by Doc...
- 2/10/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Watch the Short Film Decommissioned: "An astronaut encounters a terrifying anomaly approaching the International Space Station.
Created Using The Unreal Engine For Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Short Film Initiative Supported By Screen Queensland
Check Out Our 'Making Of': vimeo.com/502476208
Key Cast
Commander DIaz | Joey Vieira
Houston | David Normand
Key Crew
Director | Josh Tanner
Written by | Jade van der Lei & Josh Tanner
Produced by | Jade van der Lei & Danielle Redford
Cinematographer | Jason Hargreaves Acs
Editor | Tony McGrath
Composer | Ack Kinmonth & Stevan Markovic
Sound Designer | Thom Kellar
Production Designer | Matt Putland
Costume Designer | Chrissy Flannery
Make-Up Designer | Sean Genders
Stunt Coordinator | Keir Beck
Virtual Production & Picture Post Production | Cutting Edge Post
Sound Post Production | Folklore Sound"
----------
Exorcist II: The Heretic Ost First Ever Vinyl Release from Jackpot Records: "In one of his first forays into big budget Hollywood, Ennio Morricone handed in one of his weirdest, eeriest scores - Rolling...
Created Using The Unreal Engine For Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Short Film Initiative Supported By Screen Queensland
Check Out Our 'Making Of': vimeo.com/502476208
Key Cast
Commander DIaz | Joey Vieira
Houston | David Normand
Key Crew
Director | Josh Tanner
Written by | Jade van der Lei & Josh Tanner
Produced by | Jade van der Lei & Danielle Redford
Cinematographer | Jason Hargreaves Acs
Editor | Tony McGrath
Composer | Ack Kinmonth & Stevan Markovic
Sound Designer | Thom Kellar
Production Designer | Matt Putland
Costume Designer | Chrissy Flannery
Make-Up Designer | Sean Genders
Stunt Coordinator | Keir Beck
Virtual Production & Picture Post Production | Cutting Edge Post
Sound Post Production | Folklore Sound"
----------
Exorcist II: The Heretic Ost First Ever Vinyl Release from Jackpot Records: "In one of his first forays into big budget Hollywood, Ennio Morricone handed in one of his weirdest, eeriest scores - Rolling...
- 1/27/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
‘Inferno’ creatives Katherine Chediak Putnam, Dean W Law and Brenton Pinsent.
In a first for an Australian screen agency, Screen Queensland is investing more than $250,000 in four proof-of-concept short-form projects.
Danielle Redford will produce two podcasts series for Amazon’s Audible platform, From Her Rib and Beyond Strange Lands, which are intended to lead to a feature film and 12-part TV sci-fi adventure respectively.
Written and directed by Clare Sladden, From Her Rib is a true-crime style, potential feature narrative that tracks a pair of podcasters as they try to solve the mystery surrounding a celebrated musician 25 years after he disappears.
Scripted by David Peterson and Simon Taylor and directed by Hannah Ariotti, Beyond Strange Lands follows Fiona Peters and her teenage son Ethan as they take off into the outback in pursuit of her ill mother Melissa and a box of audio tapes from her parents’ un-aired television show.
In a first for an Australian screen agency, Screen Queensland is investing more than $250,000 in four proof-of-concept short-form projects.
Danielle Redford will produce two podcasts series for Amazon’s Audible platform, From Her Rib and Beyond Strange Lands, which are intended to lead to a feature film and 12-part TV sci-fi adventure respectively.
Written and directed by Clare Sladden, From Her Rib is a true-crime style, potential feature narrative that tracks a pair of podcasters as they try to solve the mystery surrounding a celebrated musician 25 years after he disappears.
Scripted by David Peterson and Simon Taylor and directed by Hannah Ariotti, Beyond Strange Lands follows Fiona Peters and her teenage son Ethan as they take off into the outback in pursuit of her ill mother Melissa and a box of audio tapes from her parents’ un-aired television show.
- 10/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Strange Colours’
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours and Jessica Leski’s documentary I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story opened on limited screens last weekend.
Not much store should be placed on ticket sales because both titles have already had a significant impact at Australian and international festivals and both have the upside of ancillary revenues and and foreign sales.
Indeed both have been very effective launching pads for their directors, fulfilling one of Screen Australia’s remits of funding films as a talent escalator, particularly for first-time filmmakers.
“It’s been a life-changing period for me,” Lodkina tells If. “Strange Colours has given me a lot of hope and energy and enabled me to form a lot of relationships during the production and distribution.
Co-written by Lodkina and producer Isaac Wall, who produced with Kate Laurie, the evocative drama follows Kate Cheel as Milena, who travels to...
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours and Jessica Leski’s documentary I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story opened on limited screens last weekend.
Not much store should be placed on ticket sales because both titles have already had a significant impact at Australian and international festivals and both have the upside of ancillary revenues and and foreign sales.
Indeed both have been very effective launching pads for their directors, fulfilling one of Screen Australia’s remits of funding films as a talent escalator, particularly for first-time filmmakers.
“It’s been a life-changing period for me,” Lodkina tells If. “Strange Colours has given me a lot of hope and energy and enabled me to form a lot of relationships during the production and distribution.
Co-written by Lodkina and producer Isaac Wall, who produced with Kate Laurie, the evocative drama follows Kate Cheel as Milena, who travels to...
- 11/26/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.