HEAR FROM SOME OF THE WORLD’S LEADING DOCUMENTARY TALENTS AND FACTUAL INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Gabrielle Brady is an Australian director and screenwriter who makes hybrid films, including Island of the Hungry Ghosts and The Wolves Always Come at Night.
Theresa is currently Co-Director and COO at Catapult Film Fund, a SF-based nonprofit providing early-stage support for independent documentaries.
ABC Indigenous is the home of cutting edge First Nations storytelling across drama, comedy, factual and digital.
Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA and Emmy nominated writer, director and producer.
Stephen is a commissioning editor with a passion for people and impactful stories.
Jo Chichester has worked on a range of internal ABC programs and co-productions, and commissioned dozens of documentaries across multiple genres including Arts & Culture, Politics, Regional, Sport, and Design.
As a commissioning editor for ABC Documentary + Specialist, Kalita is passionate about finding ways to make Australian stories - history / true crime / arts - entertaining and informative, and is looking to commission new Factual formats & feature documentaries.
Julie has worked extensively as an Executive Producer, Series Producer and Director across a wide range of genres with broadcasters and independent production companies.
Rachael Brown holds the ABC’s inaugural role of Development Executive – True Crime, spanning Podcast and Documentary.
Cieron Cody has recently joined NITV as Senior Commissioning Editor.
Bernadine has over 20 years’ experience developing, directing and producing across various documentary formats in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Josie is currently the Head of Programming at Eureka, a Fremantle Company.
Mitzi is a Co-Founder and CEO of Documentary Australia, a not-for-profit organisation enabling social impact documentaries to be funded and screened to inspire social change.
Aman Mann is a filmmaker and media researcher based in New Delhi.
Celia has worked as a writer, producer, director and Executive Producer and won national and international awards for her work.
Alex Kelly (she/her) is a filmmaker and impact producer based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Victoria Noble oversees the commissioning strategy and content production for Discovery+ as well as Discovery-owned linear channels Quest, DMAX and Discovery Channel.
Kate Pappas is an executive producer at WildBear Entertainment, co-chair of AIDC and treasurer on the Management Committee for Sustainable Screens Australia.
Flame Distribution, a specialist factual and documentary distributor with offices in Sydney, Philippines, New York and London.
Chris Kamen is a producer and lawyer, and has a broad skillset spanning film and TV production, distribution, marketing, impact, business affairs and legals.
Dom is an international designer director and co-founder of 21-19, a Brand & Moving Image agency, based in Melbourne, Australia.
The Australian Directors Guild (ADG) is a registered industry association representing the interests of film, television and digital media directors, documentary makers and animators throughout Australia.
Laurrie Mansfield is a developer, facilitator and producer for the screen arts
Al Cossar is the Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, where he has previously held roles of Programmer, Acting Artistic Director, and Associate Artistic Director.
Film Victoria is the State Government agency that provides strategic leadership and assistance to the film, television and digital media sectors of Victoria.
Adrian is Nine’s Head of Content, Production & Development working across the 9Network’s broadcast and digital video businesses.
Michael was Managing Director and co-founder of Bearcage before becoming CEO of WildBear.
Richard has over 25 years of experience in the television industry, with creative and strategic leadership positions across a wide range of genres.
As president of documentary film and television, Diane is responsible for the documentary feature film and television slate of Participant Media.
Tom Brisley thrives on pushing the boundaries of factual television.
John Brown is a multi award winning documentary cameraman, director, and stills photographer based in Oxfordshire, UK.
Sandi Tan is the writer, director, producer and co-editor of the award-winning Netflix documentary Shirkers.
Tamra Simmons is the executive producer on the ground-breaking Lifetime documentary series, Surviving R. Kelly.
Andrew McGrath is the owner Soundwaves, an award-winning sound post facility located in Port Melbourne.
Jacinta Parsons is a radio broadcaster and the co-host of the Breakfast show on ABC Radio Melbourne.
Producer Sam Griffin is the Head of Documentary and Specialist Factual at Essential Media Group where she has many projects in development, including feature documentary Lucy in the Sky.
Al Hicks is an Australian Independent Filmmaker well known for his films Quincy and Keep On Keepin' On.
Simon is the co-founder and managing director of production company Smith&Nash.
With literally hundreds and hundreds of hours of experience in Editing and Post Production, over 25+ years, one could say Belinda is a little obsessed with Editing and Post Production!
Catherine Scott has worked as a documentary filmmaker for 25 years.
Claire Forster, along with the team from Artemis Media in Perth created Every Family has a Secret.
Dale Cochrane is an experienced documentary cinematographer, having filmed across every continent including a three week expedition to Antarctica.
Rebecca Barry is a storyteller, filmmaker and adventurer at heart.
A writer, director, producer and commissioner of true stories for over 25 years, Alan Erson leads creative teams making science, arts, history and natural history content for global audiences.
Independent filmmaker John Hughes’ documentary output is formally innovative and research driven.
Head of Children’s Content at the ABC, Libbie Doherty is an advocate for Children’s content and brings a wealth of experience from the animation and live action worlds.
With over two decades in the entertainment industry Karla is recognised as a producer who nurtures both creatives and talent to bring new formats and stories to the screen.
ITV Australia’s Head of Entertainment Majella Wiemers has made almost every genre of television.
Michael Cordell is one of Australia’s most established producers and directors; his projects straddle many genres and have won numerous awards.
Kyle Murdoch has 15 years of experience working around the globe in factual television as a producer, director and writer.
Brittney has worked in festival operations for nearly eight years, now in her third year with AIDC.
Melanie Horkan is the Conference Programmer at the Australian International Documentary Conference.
Tom Zubrycki is an award-winning documentary practitioner.
Erin is an expert in international risk management and strategy development.
Suzanne Derry is the Senior Solicitor at the Arts Law Centre of Australia.
Annabel Crabb is the ABC’s Chief Political Writer and presenter of Back in Time for Dinner, The House and the highly acclaimed Kitchen Cabinet series on ABC TV.
Daniel is a leading Australian producer of international feature documentaries.
John is an acclaimed writer, director and producer across film and theatre and the creative director of Brown Cabs.
At SVT’s documentary department Axel deals with international current affairs, special series and creative documentaries.
Eve Ash is a psychologist and speaker who has produced hundreds of short films, documentaries and TV episodes.
Jess Bineth is a journalist, podcast producer, and founder of Audiocraft, an organisation for podcasters and radiomakers.
Submarine is a hybrid sales, production and distribution company.
Rudy Buttignol is the President and CEO of British Columbia’s Knowledge Network Corporation.
Jo Dillon has worked in the development and production of high-quality scripted and unscripted international screen stories for over fourteen years.
Matthew Deaner is the Chief Executive Officer of Screen Producers Australia.
David Doepel is co-founder and CEO of Demand Film, a global theatrical distribution company.
Denise Eriksen is co-founder of Media Mentors.
Jess Fuselier is a community outreach, marketing and data specialist at the Sundance Institute, living in Los Angeles, California.
Torsten Hoffmann is the founder and CEO of Melbourne-based 3D/4k Content Hub.
Lisa Jackson is an immersive muti-media content creator exploring issues of First People identify and language through her work.
Dr. Cathy Kezelman AM is a medical practitioner and expert in the treatment of trauma
Tosca is a creative director, writer and producer of factual programming.
Eddie Martin is the director of acclaimed documentaries Have You Seen the Listers?, Lionel, and the award-winning All This Mayhem.
Jo-anne McGowan is an Emmy® nominated producer.
Caro Meldrum-Hanna is an award winning investigative reporter with ABC TV.
Kate Montague is the CEO and co-founder of Audiocraft – Australia’s leading podcast production company specialising in adventurous and sound rich audio storytelling.
Dr Jordan Nguyen, is one of Australia’s most innovative biomedical engineers, who’s committed his work to improving the lives of as many people as possible.
Maya is a documentary film director and impact producer from the Unquiet Collective based on Gadigal Wangal Country.
Lisa Opie is the Managing Director of Factual for BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial TV production arm that creates many of the UK's most successful shows.
Alyssa is a Field Sales Executive at Getty Images focused on supporting the TV, film, broadcast and production industry.
Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s leading factual filmmakers.
Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
Katy Roberts is a production executive at VicScreen.
Joyce Steele is the Account Manager for HW Wood Australia Pty Ltd and heads up the Film & Entertainment team responsible for placement of insurance and risk programs.
Madeleine is an award-winning writer, director, producer and presenter of television, film and virtual reality.
Sari Braithwaite is a practitioner who works across the disciplines of history and film.
Ana is a hybrid practitioner who plays at the messy fringes of art, technology, design and culture.
Rebecca Bennett is an award-winning freelance producer based in Sydney, Australia.
Jaimen is a drone cinematographer whose stunning footage of whales, dolphins and surfers has amassed over 250 million views.
Ranell provides essential programming and operational support for IDA’s educational and conference programming.
Sarah Shaw is an Australian Producer known for films such as The Snowtown Murders, Sunshine and Have You Seen the Listers?
Tea Uglow is a founding member of Google’s Creative Lab.
Elliott Whitton works with the Cinereach productions team and filmmakers to develop content for the organisation to support, finance and produce.