AIDC 2025 to Welcome Canadian Delegation & Host Co-Production Market

AIDC is thrilled to welcome an international delegation of eight Canadian documentary and factual producers to AIDC 2025, proudly presented by the Consulate General of Canada in Sydney with the support of Canada’s Telefilm and the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO).

Including producers from Emmy and Academy Award-nominated projects like Love in the Time of Fentanyl and Fire of Love, the delegation will participate in the Australian x Canadian Co-Production Market, a mutually match-made co-production meetings program designed to facilitate creative and business collaborations between Australian and Canadian producers and their respective production companies at AIDC 2025.

With a specific focus on documentary and factual productions, the Co-Production Market exists to promote both official partnerships under the co-production treaty and unofficial international collaborations, encouraging the creation of more successful and acclaimed co-pros like Stuff the British Stole (A Wooden Horse, WildBear & Cream), and Carbon (Genepool Productions & Handful Of Films).

Australian producers interested in meeting with Canadian companies are now invited to register for the Co-Production Market to take part in 20-minute meetings at AIDC 2025 to discuss potential projects for co-production. Expressions of interest close Friday 17 January 2025.

All participating producers will be invited to participate in an online Australian x Canadian Co-Production Workshop prior to AIDC with a focus on showcasing co-production opportunities and incentives between the two countries.

“We are extremely excited to welcome the 2025 Canadian delegation to AIDC  – a stellar line-up of producers whose documentary and factual projects have screened at international film festivals, broadcast and streamed globally and garnered BAFTA, Emmy and Oscar nominations,” said AIDC CEO / Creative Director, Natasha Gadd.  

“Thanks to the support of the Consulate General of Canada in Sydney, Telefilm, and the Indigenous Screen Office, we are thrilled to present the 2025 Australian x Canadian Co-Production Market to connect Australian producers with the Canadian delegation and look forward to tracking new international collaborations between our countries.”

2025 Canadian Delegation

Ina Fichman

Ina Fichman of Montreal’s Intuitive Pictures is a Peabody award-winning and Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated producer with nearly 30 years of experience. Her recent productions include the Academy Award-nominated Fire of Love and acclaimed works like Adrianne & The Castle, 7 Beats Per Minute, The Bones, and Stray.

Trevor Solway

Trevor Solway, Sinakson, is a Blackfoot filmmaker from Siksika Nation, and a producer with Indigenous media company Blackfoot Nations Films. In 2021 Trevor directed  the award-winning POV documentary Kaatohkitopii: The Horse He Never Rode, which screened at the ImagineNATIVE Arts + Media Festival and DOXA Festival (CBC GEM). In 2022 he directed an episode of the documentary series Stuff The British Stole for CBC/ABC.

Stuart Coxe

Stuart Coxe is the owner and president of Antica Productions, based in Toronto, which produces documentaries and podcasts globally. Former executive producer of CBC national TV News, he brought Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank to North America. He recently produced TIFF Audience Award-winner The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and executive-produced TIFF premiere The Knowing.

Mackenzie Donaldson

Mackenzie Donaldson is a Toronto and LA-based producer known for producing the Emmy, Peabody and CSA award-winning, and Golden Globe-nominated show Orphan Black, and the Emmy-nominated series adaptation of Snowpiercer for TNT/Netflix. Mackenzie is the president of The Donaldson Company and producer of award-winning short films and short form series, as well as two feature documentaries: Citizen Bio for Showtime and The Abnormal Beauty Company to be released in 2025.

Chaz Beaudette

Chaz Beaudette is a Metis writer-director-producer in film and television with the Indigenous production company Nikan Productions (formerly Terre Innue). Over the past decade, Chaz has been at the helm of numerous successful film and television projects including works in both English and French language as well as across fiction and documentary genres.

Marc Serpa Francoeur

Marc Serpa Francoeur is an Emmy-nominated Azorean-Canadian documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Lost Time Media with Robinder Uppal. Their recent feature documentary Love In The Time Of Fentanyl (2022) was broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens, and was nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary at the 2024 News & Doc Emmys.

Alexandra Lazarowich

Alexandra Lazarowich is a Cree filmmaker from northern Alberta, Canada. In 2019 her short documentary Fast Horse won the Special Jury Prize for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Alexandra’s latest project, Winding Path, which she co-directed with Oscar-winning director Ross Kauffman, had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Nonfiction Short Films.

Sarah Mannering

Sarah Mannering is one of the co-founders and a producer at Colonelle films, a Montreal-based production company supporting emerging filmmakers. The company has produced over 30 author-driven films of all formats (shorts & features, documentary & fiction) that have been selected and awarded at renowned film festivals like Venice, Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, TIFF, Locarno, Hot Docs, and others.

Learn more about the visiting delegates.

All participating production companies will also take part in a special Meet the Canadians networking event during AIDC 2025.

The 2025 Canadian Delegation is proudly presented by the Consulate General of Canada in Sydney with the support of Canada’s Telefilm and the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO).

Visit the links below to learn more:

Canadian Delegation

Australian x Canadian Co-Production Market

Main Image Credit: Stuff the British Stole, Series 1 (2022), behind-the-scenes still, Wooden Horse, WildBear Entertainment & Cream Productions