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BlogsFactual News Eddie Cockrell 19 Dec 2012
Treasury defines documentary
The Department of the Treasury of the Australian Government has defined a documentary film as “a creative treatment of actuality” for the purposes of looming draft legislation that would affect Producer, Location and PDV offsets.
Quicklink Eddie Cockrell 19 Dec 2012
Screen Australia invests in documentary
Screen Australia recently announced $5 million worth of investment in 13 documentary projects that will trigger nearly three times that amount in production.
Top Ten Eddie Cockrell 11 Dec 2012
Performance: top ten rockumentaries (dinosaur edition)
The best rock and roll documentaries offer not only performances, but behind-the-scenes glimpses of their deified subjects. Having said that, it is a Sisyphean task to narrow any list of important works and favourites to a workable 10 titles without leaving major gaps in historical evolution and musical genres.
Quicklink Julia Scott-Stevenson 7 Dec 2012
Zeega remakes the internet
Zeega is yet another of the recent proliferation of interactive storytelling tools spreading across the net.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 5 Dec 2012
Screen Australia supports local interactive docs
Amongst the quartet of multi-platform projects to be supported by Screen Australia is Ringbalin, an interactive documentary from writer-director Benjamin Pederick. The announcement was made this past Monday by Screen Australia Chief Executive Ruth Harley at the Film 3.0/Making Multi-platform movies event in Sydney.
Quicklink Eddie Cockrell 3 Dec 2012
Winter Nomads wins major award
Director Manuel von Stürler’s enthralling Winter Nomads (Hiver nomade) has won the European Film Academy Documentary Award at the European Film Awards, which were held on Saturday night in Malta.
Festival Reports Kylie Boltin 3 Dec 2012
Preview: Margaret Mead Film Festival
The annual Margaret Mead Film Festival is the longest running festival dedicated to documentaries in the USA. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Faye Ginsburg was involved in the very first Margaret Mead Festival and has since become a long-term advisory board member. Familiar with Australia and SBS, Ginsburg selected three films she thought would be of interest to our audience. Here are her picks:
Festival Reports Eddie Cockrell 30 Nov 2012
Preview: Sundance Film Festival 2013
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled their program strands for the 2013 edition of the high-profile indie-themed event, and as is their tradition, a generous offering of non-fiction films share the spotlight.
Factual News Julia Scott-Stevenson 29 Nov 2012
Big screen dreams – Simon Chinn
For anyone harbouring a desire to create a feature documentary for the cinema, tomorrow’s Think Big Documentary Masterclass hosted by Screen Australia is a must.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 27 Nov 2012
Generation Next returns to Melbourne
The Generation Next Factual and Documentary Conference will be returning to Melbourne for its second year across December 6 and 7, at the Cinema Novo on Lygon Street.
Quicklink Kylie Boltin 26 Nov 2012
Berliner wins at IDFA
Alan Berliner has won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary for First Cousin Once Removed at the 25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Q&A Kylie Boltin 23 Nov 2012
Q&A: Why Poverty? Brian Hill
Welcome to the World is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Hill’s contribution to Why Poverty? an international project that asks the question: Why do a billion people still live in poverty worldwide, and what can be done to change this?
Festival Reports Sandy George 23 Nov 2012
Queen of Versailles wins BIFFDOCS
Director Lauren Greenfield’s US film The Queen of Versailles has won BIFFDOCS, the documentary competition run as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), which is due to wrap this Sunday.
Factual News Eddie Cockrell 22 Nov 2012
The Healing of Bali now available
Ronin Films has announced the availability of filmmaker John Darling’s 2003 documentary The Healing of Bali on DVD to schools, libraries and universities.
In Depth Julia Scott-Stevenson 22 Nov 2012
Everything old is innovative
Interactive documentary gets meta with newest contribution to the form Moments of Innovation. An interactive documentary work about, well, interactive documentary, it concisely covers everything that’s exciting right now about non-fiction on the web. The boffins at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab have partnered with IDFA DocLab to create the project, which is also currently in installation form at IDFA in Amsterdam.
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