Film
dirtgirlworld: nominated for Emmy Award
Airing in over 128 countries across multiple screens and platforms, dirtgirlworld has grown beyond just appearing on TV screens (ABC1,…
Global music sales up for the first time since 1999
The music industry breathes a collective sigh of relief as new figures reveal that global music sales have risen for…
The ins and outs of the industry
Two people have stepped up, and two people have stepped out in arts industry movements on and off the stage.
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,…
AIDC 2013: ABC Arts commissioning, looking for online
ABC’s new Head of Arts, Katrina Sedgwick, and the new Arts commissioning editor, Mandy Chang, were full of enthusiasm for,…
AIDC 2013: Australian stories on Australian screens
The screen sector is up in arms about the dilution of Australian content on our TV screens. The title of…
AIDC 2013: alternative finance and distribution for documentaries
Do you want to be an Enterprise ship or an independent scrappy kayaker? ScreenHub’s Andrew Einspruch donned a lifejacket and…
AIDC 2013: battering the small fry
Can the lone documentary producer survive in the modern marketplace? Four experts from three countries believe that the answer is…