AIDC

Australia's premier annual event for the nonfiction screen and digital media industries.

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AIDC is taking a rest from Twitter until new owners take over, whenever that might be. In the meantime, you can find us on the darning site, LinkedIn, Facey & the 'Gram. Fare thee well

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Catch the AIDC Team at @MIFFofficial with Natasha Gadd, Alice McShane & Lauren Valmadre set to moderate documentary screening Q&As, MIFF Talks & MIFF Industry Roundtables 📽️https://t.co/qiMAGZaS2N

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Alice McShane to return as #AIDC2025 Conference Programmer for the third year. Welcome back Alice! 👏https://t.co/nUIDhwqprl

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Save the date for #AIDC2025 - confirmed for 2-5 March 2025 at @ACMI in Melbourne / Naarm 🗓️ https://t.co/lbPkCh0rym

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Thanks to the 140 delegates who attended the first Regionality Sunshine Coast on Friday 26 July, presented by @Screen_QLD w/ the support of @CouncilSCC in collab. with SCSC. A huge day for everyone. QLD doc community represent! 🌞https://t.co/OmPGci6gg5

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Vale Gabrielle Kelly AM, chair of the first Australian International Documentary Conference in 1987 https://t.co/quba6T6sEh

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And that is a wrap on #regionalitysunshinecoast 2024. Thanks to all the attendees, @Screen_QLD, @CouncilSCC, SCSC & @maroochyRSL. See you next year!

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“Talk to your protagonists, ask for their desired outcomes. Tailor what you do … If you’re not sure what the impact goals are, explore it. Be collaborative” - David Cook on understanding the impact that you & your subjects want a completed film to have.
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Checking in on the final #regionalitysunshinecoast session for the day: Engaging Audiences with Impact! Featuring Maya Newell (#unquietcollective) Kim Ingles (#regenstudios) and David Cook (#NewDreamProductions). Moderated by Hollie Fifer (@TheDocSociety)

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“If you’re working with an Indigenous filmmaker it’s important to have a good relationship, to be really open, and to be listening” - John Harvey on the foundational aspects of cross-cultural collaboration

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Time to explore First Nations Filmmaking and the Nonfiction Landscape, with Dena Curtis #inkeymedia, Marissa McDowell @BandWFilms, & John Harvey #browncabs (screen scenes from Rebel With a Cause @NITV)

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Marissa McDowell on the progress she’s witnessed in the #FirstNations media space - “We have authorship of our own stories now and we’re telling them in series”
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@dalton_bettina @wildbeartv Pitch 3: Executive Producer and co-founder of the Sunny Coast Showdown, Dan Munday approaches the brief by talking about pitching format-driven projects that are at once “comfortably familiar but surprisingly different”

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Firing up The Art of the Pitch with David Cook (New Dream Productions) Bettina Dalton (@wildbeartv) & Dan Munday (SCSC) pitching on the theme ‘Surf & Turf’ to reps from @screenaustralia, @ABCaustralia, @sbs, @paramountanz & @screen_QLD #regionalitysunshinecoast

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Pitch #2: @dalton_bettina @wildbeartv ups the ante with a character reel featuring Aunty Bridgette Chilli and Valerie Taylor for a doco about First Nations sea rangers on sea country

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Doc Chat meetings underway at #regionalitysunshinecoast - pitching #documentary projects and making connections

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@wildbeartv @dalton_bettina @SunnySideDoc “We make Australian films that work internationally … you can sell your film anywhere if you make universal stories” - Randall Wood #storylandproductions on how to think about making work that finds funding and audiences

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Time for #regionalitysunshinecoast session 2 Endless Discovery - Reaching New Heights in Factual with Dena Curtis #inkeymedia, Nick Piper #oniontv, @dalton_bettina @wildbeartv & Randall Wood #storylandproductions

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@wildbeartv @dalton_bettina “Selling a science film is very different to pitching another kind of doco - you need to be really precise” - Randall Wood #storylandproductions on the particular approach needed to pitch a film like his @SunnySideDoc Science Pitch-winning project The Brain Garden