AIDC Awards 2024: Call for Submissions
RECOGNISING OUTSTANDING NEW AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTARY AND FACTUAL STORYTELLING
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
The 4th annual AIDC Awards will return in 2024 to recognise outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content across six categories, with a presentation to be held on the closing night of AIDC 2024, Wednesday 6 March 2024, at ACMI in Melbourne / Naarm.
Submissions are now being taken in the following categories:
- Best Feature Documentary
- Best Documentary/Factual Series
- Best Documentary/Factual Single
- Best Short-Form Documentary
- Best Audio Documentary ($3,000 cash prize presented by AFTRS)
- Best Interactive/Immersive Documentary
The AIDC Awards categories celebrate the talent and expertise of Australian content creators across long and short-form documentary and factual content, as well as non-traditional areas of audio documentary and other forms of documentary storytelling through new and emerging media.
ASH LONDON, 2023 AIDC AWARDS HOST | PHOTO: MAX ROUX
CELEBRATING OUTSTANDING WORK
Prior winners of AIDC Awards include:
Best Feature Documentary
Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow (2023), I’m Wanita (2022), The Australian Dream (2021)
Best Documentary/Factual Series
The Australian Wars (2023), See What You Made Me Do (2022), Miriam Margoyles Almost Australian (2021)
Best Documentary/Factual Single
Still We Rise (2023), Our African Roots (2022), Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky (2021)
Best Short-Form Documentary
Eden Alone Surpasses Thee (2023), Freedom Swimmer (2022), My Body Says (2021)
Best Audio Documentary
The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment (2023), Tender: Roia Atmar (2022), The Eleventh (2021)
Best Interactive/Immersive Documentary
Night Creatures (2023), Gondwana (2022), Mt Resilience (2021)
PATRICK ABBOUD AND SIMON CUNICH (RESEARCHER-WRITER-PRODUCERS), THE GREATEST MENACE: INSIDE THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT | PHOTO: WILLIAM HAMILTON-COATES
VAN SOWERWINE AND ISOBEL KNOWLES (WRITER-DIRECTOR-ANIMATORS) AND PIP CAMPEY, (PRODUCER) NIGHT CREATURES | PHOTO: WILLIAM HAMILTON-COATES
"AN INCREDIBLE YEAR OF CRAFT AND CREATIVITY"
“The AIDC Awards are one of the few industry-recognised awards for excellence in documentary and factual storytelling,” said AIDC CEO / Creative Director Natasha Gadd.
“With the help of a stellar jury of local and international experts, the annual Awards shine a welcome spotlight on outstanding Australian projects from the last 12 months. With so many impressive projects being realised across different formats, channels and platforms, we’re looking forward to celebrating what is shaping up to be an incredible year of craft and creativity in nonfiction storytelling at AIDC 2024!”
NATASHA GADD, AIDC CEO /CREATIVE DIRECTOR | PHOTO: WILLIAM HAMILTON-COATES
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Submissions for AIDC Awards categories are open now, and will close Wednesday 8 November 2023 (or 15 November 2023 with late fee).
Delegates who attended AIDC in 2023 as a Leading Lights recipient are eligible to receive a 50% discount on the Best Short-Form Documentary submission fee.
Visit the AIDC Awards page for more information regarding category criteria and guidelines and to submit a project.
Each category is assessed by an independent jury who are experts in their field. The 2024 AIDC Awards Presentation will take place on Wednesday 6 March 2024, the closing night of AIDC 2024.
A first look at the AIDC 2024 program, including the announcement of key international speakers and industry guests, will be released Wednesday 25 October 2023.
DARREN DALE (PRODUCER), RACHEL PERKINS (DIRECTOR), AND JACOB HICKEY (PRODUCER), THE AUSTRALIAN WARS | PHOTO: MAX ROUX