Meet the AIDC 2025 Event Team
Bringing you four unmissable days of sessions, business and networking
AIDC is powered by individuals passionate about documentary and factual storytelling, and devoted to supporting the people who make it happen.
Our team brings experience in directing, producing, sales, exhibition, events, and much more, with familiar faces joined each year by newcomers to bring all the strands of AIDC together.
AIDC is fortunate to welcome (and re-welcome) the following members to its 2025 event team:
Event Manager - Melanie Dimattina
Returning to AIDC for her seventh time, Melanie Dimattina is a sought-after event and program manager who has worked on music, fashion and film festivals including Stereosonic, the Australian Music Prize, So Frenchy So Chic, AIDC, the ADG Awards, Melbourne Fashion Week, MIFF and Frame Documentary.
Favourite documentary: The Barkley Marathons (2014) Dirs: Annika Iltis, Timothy James Kane
Conference Systems Coordinator - Nicole Tran
Joining AIDC as Conference Systems Coordinator, Nicole Tran is an independent freelance producer who has experience delivering multiple factual TV formats to international and local broadcasters including SBS, ABC, and Channel 10 in Australia, and Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC2, and ITV in the UK.
Favourite documentary: Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Dir: Godfrey Reggio
Awards & Special Projects Coordinator - Lucie McMahon
Lucie McMahon first entered AIDC’s orbit with the documentary Things Will Be Different, selected for AIDC 2021’s Leading Lights Pitch. A lecturer in cinema and media studies at RMIT, and former AIDC Programming Coordinator, Lucie’s AIDC scope has now expanded to the AIDC Awards and the Leading Lights program itself.
Favourite documentary: Daguerreotypes (1975) Dir: Agnes Varda
Marketing & Communications Coordinator - Jessa Shields
AIDC newcomer Jessa Shields has worked in programming, marketing and communications roles for organisations including ACMI, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Golden Age Cinema, Roadshow Films, Hear My Eyes and Moving Story Entertainment. Her writing has appeared in Four&Sons magazine, Inside Film, RUSSH and more.
Favourite documentaries: Grey Gardens (1975) Dirs: Albert & David Maysles / Stop Making Sense (1984) Jonathan Demme
Industry Coordinator - Natalie May
Returning for a third time as AIDC Industry Coordinator, following a previous stint as AIDC Registrations & Guest Services Coordinator, screen festival admin pro Natalie May has worked at MIFF in a variety of roles, as Screen Manager of Environmental Film Festival Australia, and also as Co-Director of Girls on Film Festival from 2016-2018.
Favourite documentary: Minding the Gap (2018) Dir: Bing Liu
Production Coordinator - Tahlia DiMattina
Lining up to run sessions on a tight schedule as Production Coordinator for the fourth time at AIDC in 2025, Tahlia Dimattina is a new-generation events professional who has held production roles with Melbourne Fashion Week and ACMI.
Favourite documentary: O.J.: Made in America (2016) Dir: Ezra Edelman
Keep an eye out for the friendly faces of these talented and dedicated people at AIDC 2025, 2-5 March at ACMI, Melbourne / Naarm.
They join already announced First Nations Producers, Laurie Mansfield and Devina McPherson, and Conference Programmer Alice McShane, alongside the core AIDC Management Team, to bring AIDC delegates the four days of vibrant sessions, business, and networking planned for AIDC 2025.
Main Image: Industry Coordinator Natalie May at The FACTory, AIDC 2023 | Photo by Melissa Butters