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AIDC 2013: Captain Ahab's Motorcycle Club
Making a film about the embalming and display of American President Abraham Lincoln is a little eccentric. Doubling Estonia for…
AIDC 2013: long tail, teaching old docs new tricks
Sustainability can take more than one form in the documentary business. For smaller players, the long tail of distribution is…
Nicola White: lost to friends and industry
The Melbourne cinema scene is the poorer after the recent passing of Nicola White. Most recently General Manager of the…
Deals: Eye of the Storm and MKR sell to UK
Both Fred Schepisi's Eye of the Storm and Network Seven's My Kitchen Rules have sold to the UK. They are…
AIDC 2013: Michael Loebenstein, the NFSA, and an inconvenient truth
Watching a room of archivally-obsessed filmmakers with the National Film and Sound Archive's personable leader is like watching alley cats…
AIDC 2013: ancillary rights, the devil is in the lawyer
So your show has just become a hit, and everyone wants to help you exploit the opportunity. That’s where the…
AIDC 2013: Deanne Weir's keynote address combines evidence, inspiration, and fear
Deanne Weir is a media entrepeneur, former Pay TV executive, Screen Australia board member and part owner of Brisbane transmedia…
AIDC 2013: the ABC Natural History Unit - a creation story
For many filmmakers, the ABC’s Natural History Unit was driven strongly by the BBC model, with those mellifluous Attenborough narrations.…
AIDC 2013: Independent Chinese documentary production
Three television businesspeople from the non-government sector in China slipped between the ying of bland generalisations and the yang of…
AIDC 2013: the format and the Fish On The Cake
This session perhaps should have been called Is Your Doc a Format - And If Not, Maybe It Should Be,…