AIDC 2021 | DAY TWO SCHEDULE | MONDAY 1 MARCH

Image credit: The Fight Together (WT), EQ Media, 2021 (Pic: Anna Howard)

Welcome back to AIDC 2021. Today is Day Two of our premier conference for the documentary and factual industries, and we have another full line up of insightful sessions, roundtables and workshops. 

As the conference progresses, ACMI and AIDC co-present Non-Fiction, a curated program of documentary films, talks and live events. A very limited number of free tickets will be made available to AIDC All Access and Focus Pass-holders 30 minutes before each film – just show your pass at the ACMI Box Office. For full program and ticket information, please visit the AIDC website.

DAY TWO – MONDAY 1 MARCH

Please note that all session times are listed below in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)

9:00 – 9:30 | Meet the Canadians
9:30 – 10:45 | Secret Surprise Films, Happy Endings and Finding Your Pain: Alex Gibney Discusses Motivations in Storytelling
11:00 – 11:30 | Roundtables – A24: Sarba Das
11:00 – 12:00 | Crossing Borders: Co-Producing Carbon with Canada During COVID-19
11:00 – 12:00 | Short Play: Unleashing the Creative Potential of Alternative Platforms
11:30 – 12:00 | Screen Australia Roundtables: Victoria (Mid-Career to Established)
12:00 – 12:30 | Roundtables – NHK Enterprises: Yoko Imai
12:00 – 13:00 | Life in Colour with David Attenborough: A Case Study
12:30 – 13:00 | Screen Australia Roundtables: NSW (Mid-Career to Established)
13:00 – 13:45 | Foreign Currency Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 | Indigenous Creators Program Roundtables – Hulu / Māori TV
13:00 – 14:00 | Indigenous Creators Program Roundtables – Sundance Indigenous Program / Spotify
13:15 – 14:00 | Meet Up: Education – Cracking the (Curriculum) Code
14:00 – 14:30 | Upskill: Using Design Elements to Shape Your Documentary with 21-19
14:00 – 15:00 | Survival!: Navigating the Jungle of Genres, Networks and Platforms
14:30 – 15:00 | Roundtables – Netflix: Nakul Legha
14:30 – 15:00 | Screen Australia Roundtables: Queensland
15:00 – 16:00 | ABC: Growing Digital Audiences
15:30 – 16:00 | Roundtables – Flame Distribution: Fiona Gilroy
16:00 – 16:30 | Screen Australia Roundtables: Western Australia (Emerging)
16:15 – 17:15 | Is Impact Still Relevant?
16:15 – 17:45 | Making Lemonade: A Guide to Surviving the Media Reforms
16:30 – 17:00 | Roundtables – Al Jazeera English: Emile Guertin
17:30 – 18:00 | Roundtables – Sky UK: Poppy Dixon
18:30 – 19:45 | Deep Revelations: Capturing the Human-Animal Interface
20:15 – 21:15 | From Genesis to Blockbuster: Developing Ideas That Travel, with Tim Harcourt

For full details about each session, visit the Sessions page. If you’re an AIDC delegate, you can access the AIDC 2021 Online Event Platform here.