Monday 27 February to Thursday 1 March 2012, Glenelg, Adelaide
South Australia
The Australian International Documentary Conference is Australia's only documentary conference that consistently attracts key figures from the Australian and international documentary industry. Boasting a strong marketplace and various opportunities for delegates, this Conference is the place to: NETWORK, DEAL, INSPIRE, BE INSPIRED
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Did You Miss This Session? Recording Now Available OnlineKey Address by Christian Murphy - The Global Content Market With the tagline Life is what you make it. We make it entertaining. and 1300 hours to fill each year, |
Christian Murphy, Senior Vice President, International Programming & Marketing, describes the type of content A&E looks for and how they produce captivating programs that connect with their audience.
He discusses how they bring human stories to life, how they engage, connect and entertain, and how they take risks and are a leader in genre programming.
A+E Networks channel brands include History™, A&E®, Lifetime, BIO®, Crime & Investigation Network™, and Military History™.
AIDC Supports the South Australian Screen Awards (SASA)
Congratulations to all the 2012 SASA nominees and winners.
We were very pleased to support all involved and present the award for Best Documentary.
Congratulations to Sam Collins, Ball of Light.
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Did You Miss This Session? Recording Now Available OnlinePublic Broadcasters Around The World: A Stock Take. Cynthia Lopez - POV, USA, Catherine Olsen - CBC, Canada, John Godfrey - SBS, Australia and Nick Fraser - BBC, UK, discuss the role of the public broadcaster. |
They discuss the different factors that impact the way public television operates - budgets, branding, finding the audience, time slots.
They also address elements such as the importance of the documentary title, how subtitles impact the audience and their access, social media and community engagement, distribution via ipad and iphone, cross platforms, and availablity on internet.
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Why Documentary Matters by Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville.
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Nick Fraser from BBC Storyville, offered one of the most popular sessions at the Australian International Documentary Conference this year, with a tirade of no nonsense discussion on why documentary matters.
He addresses a number of issues that he believes are threatening documentary, and offers advice for new ways to reinvigorate audiences.
If you missed this session at the 2012 Conference, watch it here.
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The Stanley Hawes Address Transcript Now AvailableJulia Overton, winner of the 2012 Stanley Hawes Address, presented the following address on the opening night of the 2012 Conference.Good evening. On my way here today I saw a sign which read ‘Julia Wins! Now for the Oscars!' Very appropriate I thought. Seriously though I want to say how deeply honored I am to accept this award. It’s absolutely fantastic to be acknowledged by one’s peers, and it’s humbling to be in |
such esteemed company – Rachel Perkins, Bob Connolly, John Hughes, and my partner Tom Zubrycki, to name just a few. Since the announcement there have been a number of wits who have dubbed Tom and I A Couple of Documentary Hawes... Read more.
Session Reviews - Day Four
These reveiws are brought to you with the generous support of ScreenHub.
Getting the facts on kids` factual. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Factual programs for children are alive and bouncing their pre-teen hearts out on ABC3. Its a great case study in making shows for a challenging audience - and nobody if a game show can be doc or not, as long as the trick bucket is full of truthy stuff... Read more.
Young filmmakers and their prospects in professional tumult. Written by Mike Clay.
Mike Clay, a documentary maker and video journalist, hoists a flag for the emerging filmmaker POV. It is a strand which is alive and well at the AIDC, but mostly lost in the middle aged mass. This is how he sees the documenta-scape... Read more.
Nick Fraser. Written by Mark Poole.
Nick Fraser has been provoking, charming, enraging and deflating commissioning editors and powerful producers at conferences for a generation. In 2012, surrounded by our times, he explained why he thinks documentary matters... Read more.
You can cheat but you can’t lie. Written by David Tiley.
Beyond the deals and policies, independent documentary is about passion. This session on documentary ethics exposed something of the raw discomfort and stubborn desires which underly the strange craft of watching in the name of truth... Read more.
Updated Delegate List Now Available
If you were registered for the 2012 Conference then you are entitled to a copy of the complete delegate list, containing contact details of those who attended.
The updated list is now available online to download and print. If you are a registered delegate please click here and sign in to view the delegate list.
This delegate list is exclusive for registered delegates.
Wrap from the AIDC Co-Chair
AIDC offers a forum to the documentary community to work, exchange views, debate, do deals and find partners for collaboration.
We are a membership organization that represents the whole documentary sector which includes: the larger companies, many of whom are supported by the Enterprise program and the broadcasters, who have successfully ridden the wave of reality formats and factual entertainment that has surged globally changing the face of documentary on television. These companies bring business to Australia, create employment in Australia and take Australian voices to the world.
Our membership includes many documentary producers and directors who continue to make issue and character driven stories, some of these are one offs, some are series, they are not formats or reality shows... Read more.
Session Reviews Day Three
These session reveiw are brought to you with the support of Screenhub.
Defining Documentary - Lush House stoush gets an airing. Written by Mark Poole.
In which Essential Media's Chris Hilton and Screen Australia`s Fiona Cameron go mano a mano outside the normal courtroom setting, Simon Nasht makes a bet, and Bob Connolly discovers the diatribe of despair... Read more
Making Low Budget Doco Makers Feel PEPpy. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Last year, the financing landscape for documentaries changed yet again with Screen Australia’s introduction of the Producer Equity Program (PEP) targeted at lower-budget docos. Nine months after its introduction, it does not yet have the understanding and mindshare that its older sibling the Producer Offset commands... Read more
Two broadcasters, one region, a world apart. Written by David Tiley.
Discovery Networks and Al Jazeera ran back to back sessions on Wednesday morning, and provided a case study in contrasting solutions to the common problem of engaging audiences outside the First World... Read more
Co-Productions vs. Co-Financing The What and Wherefores. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
For producers wondering if their documentary might be right as a co-production, the session at this year’s Australian International Documentary Conference called Co-Productions vs. Co-Financing: Tips for Producers helped lay out the parameters for making that decision, and guidelines for not having your international production fall in a heap... Read more
Money for Nothing and digital Canadians for free? Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Canada’s National Film Board (NFB) was once the home of woodchucks, loons and beavers. It produced, as NFB Chairman Tom Perlmutter, put it, “Stuff you’d bore kids with at school.” Today, the NFB is digital leader, bringing Canadian documentaries to Canadians and the rest of the world with a forward-thinking distribution approach that attracts views by the millions. Oh, and they’re free... Read more
How To Create Episodic Stories. Written by Mark Poole.
How do you create a story that can traverse episodes in a single bound, without losing your audience? Does your project pose a question big enough to justify a presence stretching across multiple platforms? These and other issues were explored by Mike Jones in this engaging session... Read more
What is Music to Your Composer’s Ears? Written by Andrew Einspruch.
The role of the composer is to help realise the story of the film. So said Antony Partos of Sonar Music in a session at the Australian International Documentary Conference called Original Music. Partos is an award-winning composer, with credits that include Recipe for Murder, The Tall Man, and Contact (the Australian documentary, not the Jodie Foster movie)... Read more.
Session Reviews Day Two
AIDC 2012: Creatively Finding the Money. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Getting the money. It is always a problem. And with the traditional models of finance (presale, funding bodies, that sort of thing) either shrinking, falling apart, disappearing, or nearly impossible for most people to access, it is up the documentary producer find a way forward that works... Read more
AIDC 2012: A+E Networks and a Global Market. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
You may not have heard of A+E Networks, but you have almost certainly heard of some of their channel brands. Names like History, Lifetime, Bio, Crime & Investigation, and Military History are some their 46 channels found in 150 markets and 36 languages... Read more.
AIDC 2012: beamafilm Launches into VOD. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Day One of this year’s Australian International Documentary project saw the launch of beamafilm, a video-on-demand (VOD) platform focussed on Australian documentaries... Read more.
AIDC 2012: Grasping the Basics of Digital Storytelling. Written by Andrew Einspruch.
Jennifer Wilson, the Director of The Project Factory, commands a wealth of information about multi-platform and transmedia success. In a workshop at this year’s Australian International Documentary Conference called Getting Started with Digital Storytelling, she shared as much as she could in an hour, all of it useful for documentarians wanting to embrace these elements in their work... Read more.
Absolutely Wild Visuals has now acquired the rights to the Associated Press video archive in Australasia. It is the latest move to position the company as the largest locally owned archive company in the region. Both companies are working the AIDC room to advertise the deal... Read more.
AIDC 2012: Tablets release touchy feely urges. Written by David Tiley.
Since the platform first enables and then defines content, the tablet computer is creating some fascinating opportunities... Read more.
Session Reviews Day One
CEO of Screen Australia Dr Ruth Harley gave the keynote speech at the Australian International Documentary Conference, painting a moving picture of success under the agency`s stewardship... Read more
AIDC 2012: SAFC symposium questions the sting in the tail of success. Written by David Tiley.
Tanya Chambers, until recently the CEO of Screen NSW, presided over a panel which contained most of the contending/collaborating forces in the sector, marshalled by a flurry of emails over the previous weeks... Read more
Zapruder and Cordell Jigsaw: merger goes public. Written by David Tiley
That merger between Cordell Jigsaw and Zapruder, carefully plotted behind closed doors for the last eight months, changes the landscape of Australian production in a single gesture... Read more
Read the Interview with ABC Children's Television
Prior to ABC Children's Television attending the 2012 Conference we had a conversation with the team to find out what their market interests are and why they are attending.
Program Highlights - Screening Program
New to the 2012 Conference is The Screening Room where full length documentaries are being screened during the Conference.
Each screening is followed by a Q&A or interview with the filmmaker.
These films are also screening as part of F4 - the First Factual Films Festival - a free documentary film festival that runs as part of the Adelaide Festival from 2-4 March, at the Mercury Cinema, Adelaide.
Recipe For Murder - Directed by Sonia Bible, F4 Award Finalist
My Thai Bride - Directed by David Tucker, F4 Award Finalist
El Velador - Directed by Natalia Almade, F4 Master
The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan - Directed by Phil Grabsky, F4 Master
Fantome Island - Directed by Sean Gilligan, F4 Award Finalist
Killing Anna - Directed by Paul Gallasch, F4 Award Finalist
The Law of the Dragon - Directed by Weijun Chen, F4 Master
Brother Number One - Directed by Annie Goldson, F4 Master
Program Highlights - Key Addresses
Key Address - Ruth Harley, CEO, Screen Australia
Key Address - Christian Murphy: The Global Content Market
Key Address - Tom Perlmutter: The Canadian Model
Key Address - Kevin Dickie: Discovery Networks and the Region
Key Address - Mostafa Nagy, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Key Address - Nick Fraser: Why Documentary Matters
End Note Address - Paul French: Two Billion Eyeballs
View the full program here.
Content Seekers Attending the 2012 Conference
View the interactive online delegate list for more information on the Content Seekers, and others attending the 2012 Conference.
- John Lindsay, KCTS9, USA - Vice President, Head of National/International Productions
- Emma Dively, KCTS9, USA - Content Development Co-ordinator
- Ewan Angus, BBC Scotland - Commissioning Editor
- Mette Hoffmann Meyer, DR-Danish Broadcast Corporation, Denmark - Head of Documentaries
- Tom Koch, PBS International, USA - Vice President, PBS Distribution
- Emile Guertin, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore - Executive Producer - Production & Development
- Joan Morselt, VPRO, Netherlands - Documentary Acquisitions
- Wang Yue, Beijing TV, China - Producer
- Zheng Cao, Beijing TV, China - Deputy Director
- Wen Han, CCTV Documentary Channel, China - Head of Planning Section
- Yan Shi, CCTV Documentary Channel, China - Deputy Managing Director
- Nobuo Isobe, NHK Enterprises, Inc., Japan - Executive Producer: Strategy Unit International Business Group
- Michael Kot, Entertainment One Television, Canada - Senior Vice President, Factual Entertainment
- Cynthia Lopez, American Documentary | POV, USA - Executive Vice President | Co-Executive Producer,
- Christian Murphy, A+E Networks, USA - Senior Vice President, International Programming & Marketing
- Catherine Olsen, CBC News Network, Canada - Executive Producer of Documentaries and Commissioning Editor The Passionate Eye
- Anna Miralis, Channel 4, UK - Editor
- Tom Perlmutter, National Film Board, Canada - Film Commissioner and Chair
- Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville, UK - Commissioning Editor
- Kevin Dickie, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore - Senior Vice President, Content Group
- Charles Schuerhoff, PBS International, USA - Director of Acquisitions
- Christine Reisen, ARTE France - Senior Commissioning Editor
- Mandy Pattinson, Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, Australia - Senior Vice President and General Manager
- Jonathan Rudd, Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, Australia - Programming Director
- Alan Erson, ABC TV, Australia - Head of Documentary
- Anita Brown, ABC TV, Australia - Commissioning Editor Factual Entertainment
- Ben Nguyen, SBS, Australia - Senior Programmer Documentary and Factual
- Chris Thorburn, ABC TV, Australia - Commissioning Editor, Contemporary
- Dena Curtis, ABC TV, Australia - Commissioning Editor
- Edwina Waddy, ABC TV, Australia - Development Producer
- Fiona Gilroy, Naked Flame Productions, Australia - Acquisitions and Sales Manager
- Jane Roscoe, SBS, Australia - Network Programmer
- Jennifer Collins, ABC TV, Australia - Head of Factual
- John Godfrey, SBS, Australia - Commissioning Editor, Documentaries
- Karina Holden, ABC TV, Australia - Commissioning Editor, Science and Natural History
- Katherine Thomas, BBC Worldwide Australia - Programme Manager - BBC Knowledge
- Lara Von Ahlefeldt, SBS, Australia - Content Sales Manager
- Michelle Maio, Naked Flame Productions, Australia - Content Sales and Acquisitions Co-Ordinator
- Olivia Humphrey, Kanopy, Australia - Managing Director
- Sam Brown, BBC Worldwide Australia - Programme Assistant - BBC Knowledge
- Wendy Stahel, SBS, Australia - Video Manager
- Natalia Almada, Director, Mexico
- Ruth Harley, Screen Australia, Australia - Chief Executive Officer
- Annie Goldson, Occasional Productions, New Zealand - Producer and Director
For more information, click here
View the interactive online delegate list for more information on the Content Seekers, and others attending the 2012 Conference.
F4 Master Filmmakers Announced
Phil Grabsky, Filmmaker, Seventh Art, UK
Screening The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan 2004 & The Boy, Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan 2011
Natalia Almada, Director, Mexico
Screening El General 2009 & El Velador 2011
Annie Goldson, Producer and Director, Occasional Productions, New Zealand
Screening Punitive Damage 1999 & Brother Number One 2011
Weijun Chen, Director and Producer, China
Screening The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World 2008 & another TBC
Image from El Velador, Natalia Almada
Pitch Your Ideas at The Conference
AIDC has teamed up with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific and KCTS9 USA to offer producers and directors an opportunity to pitch their documentary ideas and gain development funding.
Successful applicants will pitch their story ideas in person at the 2012 Conference, to DNAP and KCTS9 executives... Read more
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Brings together Australia’s leading factual content producers with the global market. |
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The Conference Marketplace program provides a variety of opportunities for projects to be financed, marketed and acquired. |
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The First Factual Films Festival (F4) is a screening program held during The Conference. F4 showcases first films from Australian documentary filmmakers. |
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The David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship provides the recipient up to $20,000 with which to explore, expand and challenge their filmmaking practice. |
The 2012 Conference is Proudly Supported By:
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