AIDC 2010 - Summary 1
AIDC 2010: Convergent Media - "if you build it they won't come"
Kirsty Hunter, Head of Interactive at Lion Television in the UK, Australian Jennifer Wilson, Director of The Project Factory, and Canadians Michael McMahon, Executive Producer, Primitive Entertainment and Silva Basmajian, Executive Producer at the National Film Board of Canada, dazzled all with their powerpoint presentations.
AIDC 2010: Natural History, History and Science Docos at the ABC
Alan Erson ABC commissioning editor ABC in history, natural history and science, Stuart Menzies, Head of Documentaries, want to see Australian native producers petting (or being eaten by) Australian native animals: “(Ant) Lions and (Tasmanian) Tigers and (Drop) Bears, oh my!” - to paraphrase Marilyn Monroe.
AIDC 2010: Matt Campbell - SBS on the Spot
Veteran journalist and interview wrangler Sandy George faced Matt Campbell, who has steered SBS on a long, strange path between advertising, squeezed budgets, and a wonderful documentary heritage.
AIDC 2010: the Science Behind Science
The Science behind Science programs of course is an art, as wrangled by Alison Leigh, the editorial director of the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, with producer Sonya Pemberton, Amanda Tyndall from the newly formed Royal Institution of Australia, and Dr Judy Ford.
AIDC 2010: Cathy Henkel and the offset that haunts us all
There’s no question that the producer’s offset has changed the filmmaking landscape in Australia. There’s also no question that not everyone is singing hosannas about it. Or that some producers are finding a map to the promised land.
AIDC 2010: snakes, angels and sustainable visions
AIDC 2010 formally opened at the Hawke Centre in the University of South Australia, an elegant gallery space with an elegant lecture theatre full of elegant documentary tragic with a sound system that might have worked for a ventriloquist suspended from a crane.
AIDC 2010: Stanley Hawes Address
Tom Zubrycki delivered the awards address on the first evening of the conference. Here is the full text. Starting anecdotally, in reflective mode about his past, he moves on to critical issues which are central to the evolution of documentary as a culture and an enterprise.
AIDC 2010: In conversation with SBS
By SBS’s own admission and in their own words “for the past year, things haven’t been as clear as they could have been because of the new team at SBS, a bit like Screen Australia perhaps. There has been a fair bit of uncertainty…” but this afternoon proved they believe they are alive and kicking.
AIDC 2010: In conversation with the ABC
Stuart Menzies and Dasha Ross provided an overview of the ABC’s documentary programming wish-list – for both contemporary and indigenous documentary program making.
AIDC 2010: In conversation with Alan Rosenthal
Alan Rosenthal, a long term independent, now the Professor of Communications at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has lived, worked and taught in the UK, America, Israel, Australia, and Mexico. He reflected upon his fifty documentary and docu-drama films, and his obsession with the genre... which he fell into by accident.
