AIDC 2025 Advisory Committee Announced
Meet the sector luminaries helping to shape our next event
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is excited to reveal the 14 sector leaders on the AIDC 2025 Advisory Committee, whose combined experience and expertise will help shape the 2025 conference program.
Revised and renewed annually, the Advisory Committee contains a range of national and international industry practitioners, executives, and thought leaders, with each contributing ideas for sessions, speakers and trending topics for the AIDC 2025 program.
Advisory Committee contributions ensure that AIDC 2025 will have a highly topical program, offering relevant and practical insights into current opportunities and future developments in the nonfiction sector.
The AIDC 2025 Advisory Committee members are:
- Theresa Navarro, Co-Director and COO, Catapult Film Fund (USA)
- Shane Boris, Founder, Cottage M (USA)
- Natsu Kawakami, Producer, NHK (JPN)
- Jane Mote, Editorial Consultant, The Whickers (UK)
- Katerina Cizek, Artistic Director, Co Creation Studio, MIT Open Documentary Lab (USA)
- Nic Meloney, Executive in Charge of Production, Factual & Documentary, CBC/Radio-Canada Indigenous Advisory Council, CBC (CAN)
- Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Love Nature / Blue Ant Media (USA)
- Lucie Kon, Commissioning Editor, BBC Storyville (UK)
- Elizabeth Klinck, Visual Researcher, Independent (CAN)
- Genevieve Grieves, Co-Founder and Creative Director, GARUWA (AUS)
- Patrick Abboud, Writer/Director/Presenter & Founder / Creative Partner, Only Human Productions / Dreamchaser Studios (AUS)
- Alicia Brown, Commissioning Editor, Stan Originals, STAN. (AUS)
- Deborah Spinocchia, Head of Unscripted, BBC Studios ANZ (AUS)
- Vicki Keogh, General Manager & Executive Producer, Perpetual Entertainment (AUS)
Learn more about the committee members HERE.
“AIDC is thrilled to welcome this year’s impressive line-up of industry leaders to the 2025 AIDC Advisory Committee representing documentary and factual creators, innovators, archivists, broadcasters, streamers and funds” said AIDC CEO / Creative Director, Natasha Gadd.
“As the only industry event in Australia dedicated to documentary and factual storytelling, contributions from this incredible cohort of Advisory Committee members will provide invaluable insights into the local and international nonfiction landscape across craft, business and innovation to help us design a world-class and agenda-setting 2025 conference program!”
AIDC will introduce the 2025 theme and provide a preview of our next conference’s speaking guests and industry decision makers on Wednesday 30 October 2024.
Registration for AIDC 2025 is now open, with limited Early Bird All Access and Business Passes available until Tuesday 29 October 2024, or until sold out.
AIDC 2025 will take place 2-5 March at ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne / Naarm, with an additional international marketplace 6-7 March online.