Antenna: choose your own form of resistance

With 33 contemporary long form documentaries, three classics, a retrospective and a bent stage presentation, the Antenna Documentary Festival has become a wonderful celebration of an embattled art.
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Image: Teodora Ana Mihai, who made Waiting for August.

There is a lot more to Antenna than a film program. The Doc Talks Day will bring local filmmakers to the AFTRS, while the Tribeca inspired Hackathon offers two days of intensive mind-melding.

We only have to look at the current discontent among some key Sydney filmmakers about the approaching screening of the Turkiewicz/Freedman Once My Mother at 10.20 on Sunday night to see the problem for cinema documentaries. This is a minority form.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.