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WELCOME
TO AIDC 2020
                                COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

                                As we come together to celebrate AIDC 2020, we do so
                                with a bittersweet awareness of how the recent past has
                                shaped the present moment. This conference, established
                                by a group of documentarians over 30 years ago, is the
                                product of the hard work and support of many Australians.
                                As we launch this year’s event, we want to recognise all
                                the people who prepared and planned for it amidst the
                                smoky haze of the Australian bushfires, itself an unrelenting
                                reminder of the tragic and unprecedented loss of human,
ALICE BURGIN                                                                                    MARTIN FOLEY MP                     CAROLINE PITCHER                     FIONA GILROY & SUSIE JONES
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR             animal and plant life that has marked this period.              MINISTER FOR CREATIVE               CEO                                  CO-CHAIRS
AIDC                                                                                            INDUSTRIES                          FILM VICTORIA                        AIDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
                                The overwhelming local and global community response
                                to Australia’s plight is a shining example of what has
                                                                                                As we head into a new decade,       Documentary films are real           Welcome to the 33rd AIDC.
                                guided us in developing our motif for the year. ‘Collective     quality factual content and         stories with the power to create     This year’s conference theme
                                Intelligence’ incorporates ideas around collective              courageous storytelling are more    dialogue, encourage action           of ‘Collective Intelligence’ brings
                                movements, of coming together to solve problems, and            important than ever.                and change lives.                    a focus on shared wisdom,
                                a shared sense of ownership and responsibility. It reflects                                                                              international funding, content
                                                                                                AIDC brings together the most       It is due to the immense talent      distribution and how technology
                                notions of custodianship, collaboration and shared
                                                                                                exciting creators and leaders       and passion of Australian factual    blends into the human
                                wisdom—all the things vital to our continued survival           working in the global documentary   content filmmakers that our          experience. With delegations
                                as an industry, and, in a much larger sense, as a species.      space today, with a program set     most important global and local      from Canada and decision
                                Over these four days, we encourage you to join us in            to challenge and inspire.           stories reach and inspire            makers from around the world,
                                taking a step closer to one another, with a view to                                                 audiences around the world and       we hope you will be inspired
                                                                                                Victoria is proud to host AIDC      this vibrant conference is often     to look at production and funding
                                creating new alliances, sharing knowledge, working              2020 at our newly transformed       the place where it all begins.       opportunities from a fresh and
                                together and cooperation.                                       State Library, and to be                                                 global perspective.
                                                                                                investing in the future of our      Every year at AIDC new
THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL    AIDC is a place for nurturing ideas that become stories.        screen industry.                    partnerships are formed, brilliant   We are also delighted that this
DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE                                                                                                              ideas are hatched and incredible     year’s pitching initiatives offer
ACKNOWLEDGES THE AUSTRALIAN     We encourage you to use this time to take in your
                                                                                                Wishing you an enjoyable and        experiences are shared and           over $500,000 in project funding
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ISLANDER PEOPLES AS THE FIRST
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THE TRADITIONAL CUSTODIANS      —towards the future we want, and how we can use the                                                                                      our generous sponsors—
OF THE LANDS WHERE WE LIVE,
LEARN AND WORK.                 power of story to bring this shared vision to life.                                                                                      particularly Film Victoria and ACMI
                                                                                                                                                                         —and our Executive team and
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                                                                                  DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM,
                                                                                  DESIGNED TO GIVE FILMMAKERS THE
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                                                                                  Through priceless mentoring with industry professionals from
                                                                                  around the world, ACCESS allows six applicants to hone their skills
                                                                                  and incubate an original idea in early development over four days
                                                                                  of sessions and one-on-one mentoring.
LIGHTS
LEADING

                                                                                                                                                        ACCESS
          WE BELIEVE THAT                       FUNDS PLEDGED FOR                 THE ACCESS PRIZE
                                                5 PRACTITIONERS:
          A WIDE VARIETY                                                          At the end of the program, one participant is selected for the
                                                – ABC
          OF VOICES AND                                                           ACCESS Prize: the opportunity to undertake a one-month
          PERSPECTIVES IS                                                         paid internship with leading international production company
                                                FUNDS PLEDGED FOR                 Beach House Pictures in Singapore.
          VITAL FOR A HEALTHY                   3 PRACTITIONERS:
          SCREEN INDUSTRY.                      – FULCRUM MEDIA FINANCE           AIDC also partners with Sheffield Doc/Fest to offer a second
                                                                                  ACCESS participant a complimentary Festival Pass to the UK’s
          Leading Lights is AIDC’s                                                most prestigious documentary festival.
                                                FUNDS PLEDGED FOR
          philanthropic funding program         2 PRACTITIONERS:
          for early career, Indigenous and
                                                – AFTRS
          CALD (culturally and linguistically   – BBC STUDIOS
          diverse) practitioners to attend      – CJZ                             2020 ACCESS PARTICIPANTS
          AIDC for the first time.              – FIRST AUSTRALIAN
                                                  COMPLETION BOND                 Barbara Taylor
                                                – FREMANTLE                       Steven Alyian
          Contributions to the fund come        – NORTHERN PICTURES               Lauren Beck
          from Australia’s leading              – PROJECTOR FILMS
                                                                                  Corinne Innes
          production houses and media           – UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT
                                                – WILDBEAR ENTERTAINMENT          Travis Beard
          businesses.                                                             Jared Nicholson
          The goal is to bring new voices       FUNDS PLEDGED FOR
                                                1 PRACTITIONER:
          to the table, enrich the
          practitioner community, and           – BRINDLE FILMS
                                                – CLOSER PRODUCTIONS
          build the foundations for the         – DEMAND FILM
          future of the industry.               – EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY
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          Since its inception, the program      – NAGLE ACCOUNTING
                                                – PRINCESS PICTURES
          has supported 102 new                 – PROSPERO PRODUCTIONS
          practitioners to attend the           – SEVEN STUDIOS
          conference.                           – WEIR ANDERSON
                                                – UNITED FINISHING ARTISTS

          AIDC would like to thank new
          and returning donors to the
          Leading Lights Fund in 2020.

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DIRECTOR                              PRODUCER                            DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
                                                                                     LARISSA BEHRENDT AO                   SAM GRIFFIN                         ANNA HOWARD

                                                                                     Director Larissa Behrendt is an       Producer Sam Griffin is the Head    Cinematographer Anna Howard
                                                                                     award-winning writer/director         of Documentary and Specialist       ACS started in the Australian
                                                                                     and author of fiction and             Factual at Essential Media          Film Industry in 1981. Her credits
                                                                                     nonfiction with a passion for         Group. Prior to this, she was an    include: Machine (2018), Rabbit
                                                                                     telling the stories of Indigenous     investment manager at Screen        (2018), Errors of the Human Body
                                                                                     Australia. She won the Australian     Australia, where she was involved   (2012), South Solitary (2010),
                                                                                     Directors Guild Award for her         in the development, funding         Rake (2010), Marking Time (2003),
                                                                                     documentary After the Apology,        and management of a slate of        and Women He’s Undressed
                                                                                     which premiered at Adelaide           award-winning documentaries,        (2015). Anna Howard ACS is
                                                                                     Film Festival in 2017. Larissa also   nationally-significant television   a respected cinematographer
                                                                                     wrote and directed the Walkley-       series, and emerging filmmaker      and a campaigner for equal
                                                                                     nominated documentary                 initiatives. Before returning       opportunities. Anna was awarded
                                                                                     Innocence Betrayed, which aired       to Sydney in 2010, Sam worked       ACS Accreditation in 2004
                                                                                     on NITV in 2014. Her short film,      in New York where she was           and Inducted into the ACS Hall
                                                                                     Under Skin, In Blood, screened        a producer, overseeing editorial    of Fame in 2019.
                                                                                     at Sydney Film Festival and           and production of hundreds
                                                                                     Melbourne International Film          of hours of fashion and arts
                                                                                     Festival in 2015.                     factual content.

THE FIGHT TOGETHER
(WORKING TITLE)
LOGLINE                         SYNOPSIS                                             GENRE                                 PROJECT INFORMATION                 CONTACT

AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A MAN   A group of NRL greats got together to invent a       Culture, Sport                        Production company:                 Sam Griffin
DRIVEN TO SHARE HIS CULTURE     new pre-game ceremony, a response to the                                                   Essential Media                       +61 (0)423285324
                                Maori Haka but also a new ceremony to celebrate                                            Country of production:                sam.griffin@essential.media
WITH THE WORLD.
                                Aboriginal cultures and counter racism in rugby                                            Australia
                                league. They now want to use that dance to                                                 Director: Larissa Behrendt AO
                                change the hearts and minds of all Australians.                                            Producer: Sam Griffin
                                This feature documentary follows one man’s journey                                         Executive Producers:
                                to make that happen.                                                                       Brendan Dahill, Paul Wiegard
                                                                                                                           Estimated Duration: 75 mins
                                                                                                                           Stage of Production:
                                                                                                                           Late Development

                                                                                     FORMAT                                FINANCIAL INFORMATION               LINKS

                                                                                     Feature                               Total budget: AUD $900,000             essential.media
                                                                                                                           Secured finance: AUD $600,000
                                                                                                                           Shortfall: AUD $300,000
                                                                                                                           Financiers: NITV, Madman,
                                                                                                                           Producer Off-set
ARTS & CULTURE

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PRODUCER                           DIRECTOR
                                                                                    FOREST IAN ETSLER                  IL-HA LEE

                                                                                    Forest Ian Etsler is a USA-born    Born in Korea, Il-ha moved to
                                                                                    producer-director based in         Japan in 2000 to study film.
                                                                                    Seoul, South Korea. He worked      There he received an MFA at
                                                                                    as production assistant            Nihon University, and a
                                                                                    on several feature-length          Doctorate in Documentary
                                                                                    internationally co-produced        Directing from Osaka University
                                                                                    documentaries, as well as          of the Arts. While studying in
                                                                                    directing and producing several    Japan, Il-ha experienced much
                                                                                    short documentary and narrative    racial discrimination, and as a
                                                                                    films. He was awarded the Best     result, has focused extensively
                                                                                    Pitch from Korea Documentary       on this theme in his work. In
                                                                                    Festival in 2018 on the Ssing      More Il-ha empathizes with the
                                                                                    Ssing ROK project and attended     protagonist and wants to focus
                                                                                    the Sheffield Doc/Fest as a        on the protagonist’s broken
                                                                                    member of the Korean delegation.   wings. More will be Il-ha’s fourth
                                                                                    Forest has also worked on          theatrical feature documentary.
                                                                                    Korean TV as producer, director,
                                                                                    and show-runner.

MORE

LOGLINE                        SYNOPSIS                                             GENRE                              PROJECT INFORMATION                  CONTACT

A GENDER NON-BINARY            Meet Jimin—the boy who always dreamt of              Arts, Society                      Production company:                  Forest Ian Etsler
PERFORMANCE ARTIST ACHIEVES    becoming a ballerina. Both as a rural schoolboy                                         Exposed Film                            +82 1042287354
                               interested in ballet and as a ballerino in South                                        Country of production:                  forest.ian.etsler@gmail.com
PERSONAL ACCEPTANCE AND
                               Korea’s top art university, Jimin suffered abuse                                        South Korea, USA, Russia
RECONCILIATION—AS CHRONICLED   for harnessing his feminine side.                                                       Director: Il-ha Lee
THROUGH THE GENRE OF MUSICAL                                                                                           Producer: Forest Ian Etsler
DOCUMENTARY.                   Meet “More” (the ‘hairy mermaid’)—Jimin’s                                               Estimated Duration: 75 mins
                               alter-ego, who has been for 20-plus years Seoul’s                                       Stage of Production:
                               preeminent drag queen. As a performance artist,                                         Production
                               More performs globally and has collaborated with
                               queer icons like John Cameron Mitchell,
                               of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame.

                               While More gains acclaim and prominence,
                               Jimin—unable to marry his life-partner—struggles     FORMAT                             FINANCIAL INFORMATION
                               for basic human rights. Only More can console
                               Jimin, and only Jimin can give More the validation   Single / One-off                   Total budget: AUD $500,000
                               he requires. This documentary aims to take the       Feature                            Secured finance: AUD $156,120
                               audience on a cathartic journey of self-acceptance   Hour (52'/60')                     Shortfall: AUD $343,880
                               and reconciliation.                                  70+ mins                           Financiers: Busan International Film Festival AND Fund, Korean
                                                                                                                       Communication Agency, Korean Film Council, Seoul Film Commission
ARTS & CULTURE

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PRODUCER                              DIRECTOR
                                                                                 TARA RIDDELL                          JUSTIN HAWKES

                                                                                 Tara Riddell is an award-winning      Justin directed New Zealand’s
                                                                                 film producer, with over 20 years     first Netflix Original – David
                                                                                 experience in the industry as         Farrier and Carthew Neal’s Dark
                                                                                 a producer. Her films have been       Tourist. Mixing documentary
                                                                                 selected for Cannes, Venice           with black comedy, one of
                                                                                 and New Zealand festivals and         Justin’s episodes on ‘The Stans’
                                                                                 Art Basel, and she has won the        has the highest viewer rating on
                                                                                 Grand Prix in Cannes Critics’         Dark Tourist’s IMDB listing.
                                                                                 Week. Tara is the Executive
                                                                                 Producer of Sydney-based              This year Justin launched the
                                                                                 RASKOLS production company,           two-part documentary, Patrick
                                                                                 managing a slate of established       Gower: On Weed, which he
                                                                                 directors. Tara also owns Bamber      directed and edited. It had
                                                                                 Films, specialising in long-form      huge ratings and great viewer
                                                                                 moving image and working              and critical feedback. It was
                                                                                 across feature films, shorts,         the highest-rated show in New
                                                                                 television and gallery exhibitions.   Zealand in 2019.

THE BUSHWHACKERS:
A LOVE STORY
LOGLINE                        SYNOPSIS                                          GENRE                                 PROJECT INFORMATION                CONTACT

THE BUSHWHACKERS WERE          In the 1980s, Australasian tag team,              Sport, Society                        Production company:                Tara Riddell
SUPERSTARS OF WRESTLING.       The Bushwhackers, were superstars of wrestling.                                         Bamber Films                          +61 (0)433166194
                               Now in their seventies, the two best friends                                            Country of production:                tara@bamberfilms.com
NOW IN THEIR SEVENTIES,
                               reunite and embark on a farewell tour of                                                Australia, New Zealand, USA
THE TWO BEST FRIENDS REUNITE   America—against the advice of their doctor.                                             Director: Justin Hawkes
AND EMBARK ON A FAREWELL                                                                                               Producer: Tara Riddell
TOUR OF AMERICA—AGAINST                                                                                                Estimated Duration:
THE ADVICE OF THEIR DOCTOR.                                                                                            80-90 min
                                                                                                                       Stage of Production:
                                                                                                                       Early Development

                                                                                 FORMAT                                FINANCIAL INFORMATION              LINKS

                                                                                 Feature                               Total budget: AUD $995,616           bamberfilms.com
                                                                                                                       Secured finance: AUD $5,000
                                                                                                                       Shortfall: AUD $990,616
                                                                                                                       Financiers: NZFC

ARTS & CULTURE

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WRITER, DIRECTOR                   WRITER, DIRECTOR                      PRODUCERS
                                                                                           EM BAKER                           JUHI SHARMA                           SAMANTHA DINNING
                                                                                                                                                                    & PHILIPPA CAMPEY

                                                                                           Em’s debut feature                 Juhi Sharma is a New                  Philippa and Samantha are
                                                                                           documentary I Am No Bird           York, Dallas and Chennai-             producers at Film Camp. Their
                                                                                           premiered at Sydney Film           based filmmaker working in            recent documentary credits
                                                                                           Festival 2019 (nominated           documentaries, fiction films,         include ABC’s Art Bite Series
                                                                                           Best Australian Documentary)       music videos and branded              The Unmissables, NITV/SBS
                                                                                           and was released theatrically      content. Her film Walk of Fame,       series Treaty, and the feature
                                                                                           with Potential Films. Em’s         with Dir. Blaine Morris premiered     documentary No Time for Quiet
                                                                                           documentary Spoke won the          at the Oscar Qualifying NY            (which Samantha co-directed
                                                                                           Audience Choice Award at the       Shorts International Film Festival.   with Hylton Shaw). Film Camp is
                                                                                           Melbourne Documentary Film         Her directorial debut, Skinny         currently releasing The Leunig
                                                                                           Festival. Her short film Dolphin   Love premiered at the Alternative     Fragments (with Madman) while
                                                                                           is an official selection at this   Film Festival in Toronto and          producing feature docs Palazzo
                                                                                           year’s Melbourne Women in          was the Official Selection            di Cozzo and Brazen Hussies.
                                                                                           Film Festival and Queerscreen’s    at the Newark International           Film Camp has won awards at
                                                                                           Mardi Gras Film Festival.          Film Festival and Adirondack          Cannes, Sundance, AFI-Fest
                                                                                                                              International Film Festival.          and Thessaloniki, and screened
                                                                                                                                                                    at festivals including Berlinale,
                                                                                                                                                                    Venice, Rotterdam, Telluride,
                                                                                                                                                                    True/False, BFI-London and
                                                                                                                                                                    Sheffield.

THE VINYL RECORDS:
DESTROY PHALLUS OPPRESSION
LOGLINE                           SYNOPSIS                                                 GENRE                              PROJECT INFORMATION                   CONTACT

AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF           Although they didn’t set out to create feminist music,   Music, Geopolitics, Gender         Production company:                   Samantha Dinning
EPIDEMIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE,         three-piece post-punk band The Vinyl Records                                                Film Camp                               +61 (0)415292691
                                  soon realised that their very existence is political.                                       Country of production:                  sam@filmcamp.com.au
INDIA’S ONLY ALL-GIRL PUNK BAND
                                  We follow the band on their 2020 national tour                                              Australia, India
‘THE VINYL RECORDS’ TAKE TO       across an increasingly divided India where tensions                                         Directors:                            Philippa Campey
THE ROAD, SINGING THE WAR-CRY     around women’s rights and conservative politics                                             Em Baker, Juhi Sharma                    +61 (0)410665032
OF A NATION’S WOMEN.              are at boiling point.                                                                       Producers: Samantha                      pip@filmcamp.com.au
                                                                                                                              Dinning, Philippa Campey
                                                                                                                              Estimated Duration:
                                                                                                                              85 mins
                                                                                                                              Stage of Production:
                                                                                                                              Late Development

                                                                                           FORMAT                             FINANCIAL INFORMATION                 LINKS

                                                                                           Single /One-off                    Total budget: AUD $600,000               filmcamp.com.au
                                                                                           Feature                            Secured finance: AUD $10,000
                                                                                           70+ mins                           Shortfall: AUD $590,000
                                                                                                                              Financiers: Screen Australia
                                                                                                                              (Development)
ARTS & CULTURE

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PRODUCTION COMPANY                  PRODUCER                          PRODUCER
                                                                                          VANISHING PICTURES                  MIRANDA DARLING                   VIOLA RAIKHEL-BOLOT
                                                                                          PRODUCTIONS

                                                                                          VPP was founded by Miranda          Miranda is a writer and           Viola is Managing Director
                                                                                          and Viola to tell the stories of    co-founder of VPP. She has        and Co-Founder of 1858 Ltd
                                                                                          women who have wielded soft         published two thrillers, a        Art Advisory, and Co-Founder
                                                                                          power to change the course          novel, and worked on several      of Vanishing Pictures
                                                                                          of history. The stories they tell   documentaries as a writer and     Productions. 1858 Ltd is the
                                                                                          in books and film focus on the      consultant. Before reading        leading international art advisor
                                                                                          nexus between art and politics,     English and Modern Languages      to UHNW collectors, private
                                                                                          told through the lives of the       at Oxford, she worked as a        banks, financial institutions,
                                                                                          extraordinary women at the          fashion model and for Paper       family offices, fashion and
                                                                                          heart of them.                      Magazine in New York. She has     luxury brands, and museums
                                                                                                                              an MA in Strategic Studies and    on the various aspects of the
                                                                                                                              Defence from the ANU (GSSD),      art collection process. Viola is
                                                                                                                              and was a scholar at CIS, where   regularly called upon for market
                                                                                                                              she published widely on new       insights in the international
                                                                                                                              security threats.                 press and is a regular contributor
                                                                                                                                                                to the Financial Times, CNBC,
                                                                                                                                                                CNN, and Bloomberg TV News.

THE LAST EMPRESS

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THE LAST EMPRESS IS A FEATURE     It has now been 40 years since the Empress              Culture, Geopolitics                Production company:               Viola Bolot
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE EPIC        and her family were forced into exile. Since then                                           Vanishing Pictures Productions       +61 (0)406431214
                                  they have been living under a death sentence                                                (VPP)                                vraikhel@1858ltd.com
LIFE OF EMPRESS FARAH PAHLAVI
                                  in absentia.                                                                                Country of production:
—THE FIRST CROWNED EMPRESS                                                                                                    Australia, USA                    Miranda Darling
IN IRANIAN HISTORY. HER STORY     After decades of living quietly in exile, a major                                           Director: Withheld                   +61 (0)414673375
IS ONE OF FAIRY TALES, TRAGEDY,   new power struggle between her homeland, Iran,                                              Producers: Miranda Darling,          mdarling@eml.cc
REVOLUTION AND TRIUMPH.           and her adopted country, the US, threatens to                                               Viola Raikhel-Bolot
                                  draw the Empress back in. She has now                                                       Estimated Duration: 90 mins
                                  re-emerged on the world stage, recently revealing:                                          Stage of Production:
                                  ‘They said if I killed my husband, I could go back.’                                        Production
                                  Despite the hardships her people face, the
                                  Empress does not want regime change to come
                                  from outside. Her wish is to live to see a revolution
                                  from within, one she feels certain will be led by       FORMAT                              FINANCIAL INFORMATION             LINKS
                                  the women of Iran.
                                                                                          Single /One-off                     Total budget: AUD $2,000,000         BOOK assouline.com/
                                                                                          Feature                             Secured finance: AUD $800,000      products/iran-modern
                                                                                                                              Shortfall: AUD $1,200,000            VPP vanishingpictures
                                                                                                                              Financiers: Vanishing             productions.com/news
                                                                                                                              Pictures Productions
SOCIETY & POLITICS

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DIRECTOR, PRODUCER                  CO-PRODUCER                         CO-PRODUCER, WRITER
                                                                                         JO DE FINA                          NICK BATZIAS                        MELANIE HORKAN

                                                                                         Jo has worked with some of          Long standing member of the         Melanie co-produced and wrote
                                                                                         the most iconic companies and       Australian film industry, Nick      Academy shortlisted My Enemy
                                                                                         creatives globally, and her time    Batzias is a producer working       My Brother in 2015 for Fathom
                                                                                         in New York saw her produce         across film and television. He is   Films in Toronto. She also
                                                                                         for Oscar-nominated director        best known for the films Save       worked as development
                                                                                         Bennett Miller. Recognised          Your Legs (2012), A Month of        producer on Google and the
                                                                                         as Australia’s best Creative        Sundays (2015) and Below (2019)     World Brain for BBC / ARTE /
                                                                                         Producer at the B&T Women in        and feature documentaries           TVE which screened at over 60
                                                                                         Media Awards, and one of SPA’s      That Sugar Film (2014), 2040        festivals. In 2019 she produced
                                                                                         ‘Ones to Watch’ 2019, Jo has        (2019) and The Australian Dream     and programmed Screen
                                                                                         produced incredible projects        (2019). In addition Nick has        Forever for Screen Producers
                                                                                         with some of the biggest            Executive Produced several          Australia attracting a record
                                                                                         names in the entertainment          feature films and documentaries.    number of attendees.
                                                                                         and advertising industries          Nick is Managing Partner at
                                                                                         worldwide, including, rock stars,   GoodThing Productions, based
                                                                                         politicians, and the current        in Melbourne, Australia.            WRITER
                                                                                         President of the USA.                                                   JESS LILLEY

                                                                                                                                                                 Jess Lilley is a creative director,
                                                                                                                                                                 radio maker and writer. She is
                                                                                                                                                                 currently a broadcaster at
                                                                                                                                                                 3RRR-FM, producing programs

TEA UGLOW —                                                                                                                                                      covering culture and social
                                                                                                                                                                 issues. Jess is also a co-editor
EXPERIMENTAL PERSON IN CHARGE                                                                                                                                    and writer at Gabberish.com

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WHY IS IDENTITY SUCH A DIVISIVE   Tea Uglow has chosen to challenge accepted             Arts, Society, Gender               Production company:                 Melanie Horkan
FORCE IN TODAY’S CULTURE,         norms of how we define ourselves by no longer                                              OTTO                                  +61 (0)403444024
                                  conforming to social expectation, instead being                                            Country of production:                melanie@hellootto.com.au
AND WHY ARE WE IN SUCH A RUSH
                                  fully transparent about every aspect of who they                                           Australia
TO DEFINE WHO WE—AND EACH         are and how they have come to be. To everyone.                                             Director: Jo de Fina                Jo de Fina
OTHER—ARE?                                                                                                                   Producers: Jo de Fina,                 +61 (0)413863944
                                  Identifying as neuro-diverse and trans, this is the                                        Nick Batzias, Melanie Horkan           jojo@hellootto.com.au
                                  story of how Tea created their second coming of                                            Writers: Jess Lilley,
                                  age. With so many labels to negotiate—from                                                 Melanie Horkan
                                  ‘different’ to ‘Dissociative Identity Disorder’—Tea                                        Estimated Duration: 75 mins
                                  ultimately encourages us to redefine what normal is.                                       Stage of Production:
                                                                                                                             Late Development
                                  But as Tea and filmmaker, Jo de Fina, traverse the
                                  implications of their decision to live with brutal
                                  honesty, we see that it comes at huge personal         FORMAT                              FINANCIAL INFORMATION               LINKS
                                  cost to Tea.
                                                                                         Feature                             Total budget: AUD $1,200,000           hellootto.com.au
                                                                                                                             Secured finance: AUD $5,000
                                                                                                                             Shortfall: AUD $1,195,000
                                                                                                                             Financiers: Film Victoria

SOCIETY & POLITICS

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SUBJECT AND CO-PRODUCER           PRODUCER                            CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR
                                                                                        OLIVER CASSIDY                    CHRIS KAMEN                         KASIMIR BURGESS

                                                                                        Oliver is an 8th-generation       Chris Kamen is a producer,          Kasimir’s latest film, The Leunig
                                                                                        Tasmanian, activist, filmmaker,   lawyer, and digital distribution    Fragments, screened to critical
                                                                                        musician and transgender          specialist. With 15 years in the    acclaim at Sydney, Melbourne
                                                                                        person who began this journey     industry, Chris has produced a      and Brisbane International Film
                                                                                        as Heather. Oliver works with     wide variety of formats including   Festivals and is in general release
                                                                                        the Tasmanian Conservation        feature-length documentaries,       now. His debut feature Fell had
                                                                                        Trust, an organisation that       television, short films, web        its world premiere at the Sydney
                                                                                        co-ordinated environmental        series and advertising. He has      International Film Festival.
                                                                                        campaigns with others including   pioneered innovative distribution
                                                                                        The Wilderness Society, Bob       methods on a number of
                                                                                                                                                              CO-WRITER
                                                                                        Brown Foundation, Freycinet       projects and currently works        CLAIRE SMITH
                                                                                        Action Network, the Planning      part-time at CJZ.
                                                                                        Matters Alliance and more.                                            Claire has written, produced
                                                                                        Oliver also writes music and                                          and directed documentaries for
                                                                                        performs regularly in his band,                                       ABC, Netflix and Discovery.
                                                                                        Philomath. Over the last year                                         She is currently producing a
                                                                                        he has become a known figure                                          global, environmental feature
                                                                                        in the Hobart music scene.                                            at ITN Productions in
                                                                                                                                                              collaboration with Doc Society.
                                                                                                                                                              Previous roles at Discovery
                                                                                                                                                              USA, on ABC’s flagship science

DARK WATER:                                                                                                                                                   show Catalyst, and on Genepool
                                                                                                                                                              Productions’ Vitamania.
BATTLE ON THE FRANKLIN
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A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE EPIC    Dark Water is a cinematic, feature-length               History, Environment, Politics    Production company:                 Chris Kamen
FIGHT TO SAVE TASMANIA’S WILD   documentary about the seven-year campaign                                                 Rock Island Bend                      +61 (0)438309335
                                to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin                                         Productions Pty Ltd                   chris@kamen.com.au
FRANKLIN RIVER FROM BEING
                                River from being drowned by the construction                                              Country of production:
DAMMED BY THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC    of a huge hydroelectric dam in the early 1980s.                                           Australia
COMMISSION IN THE 1980S.                                                                                                  Director: Kasimir Burgess
                                The story is framed by Oliver, an 8th generation                                          Producers: Chris Kamen,
                                transgender Tasmanian, who grieves over the                                               Oliver Cassidy, Annie Venables
                                early passing of his conservationist father Mike.                                         Writers: Kasimir Burgess,
                                After discovering Mike’s diary from his 18-day                                            Claire Smith
                                rafting mission to join the blockade, Oliver embarks                                      Estimated Duration: 90 mins
                                on a solo rafting pilgrimage down the life-changing                                       Stage of Production: Financing
                                river. In the process, he discovers the extraordinary
                                story of the campaign and gains valuable
                                                                                        FORMAT                            FINANCIAL INFORMATION               LINKS
                                insights into how change-making movements
                                actually succeed.
                                                                                        Single /One-off                   Total budget: AUD $700,000             franklinriver.movie
                                                                                        Feature                           Secured finance: AUD $433,000           fb.com/franklinrivermovie
                                                                                        70+ mins                          Shortfall: AUD $267,000
                                                                                                                          Financiers: Screen Australia
                                                                                                                          (production investment) &
                                                                                                                          Screen Tasmania (development
                                                                                                                          assistance)
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DIRECTOR                            PRODUCER                           PRODUCER, EDITOR
                                                                                         KARL MALAKUNAS                      MARTY SYJUCO                       MICHAEL COLLINS

                                                                                         Karl is an Australian journalist    Originally from the Philippines,   Michael is an Emmy® and
                                                                                         who has reported on conflicts,      Marty is a two-time Emmy®-         Grierson-nominated filmmaker
                                                                                         natural disasters and political     nominated filmmaker whose          and the founder of Thoughtful
                                                                                         upheavals around the world for      first film Give Up Tomorrow        Robot, a film production
                                                                                         two decades. He is currently the    premiered at the Tribeca Film      company committed to telling
                                                                                         Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor-In-      Festival where it won the          stories that galvanize change.
                                                                                         Chief for the international news    Audience Award and Special         Michael’s recent film Almost
                                                                                         agency Agence France-Presse.        Jury Prize. The film won           Sunrise is the first film about
                                                                                         Karl began making Darkened          18 awards and has been seen        “moral injury” and its connection
                                                                                         Paradise, his first feature film,   by over 50 million viewers. His    to the veteran suicide crisis.
                                                                                         while based in the Philippines      recent film, Call Her Ganda was    The film premiered at Telluride
                                                                                         as Manila Bureau Chief for AFP.     nominated for a GLAAD Media        Mountainfilm in 2016 and has
                                                                                         An initial short film and essay     Award and was broadcast on         had 600+ screenings across
                                                                                         on Palawan’s land defenders by      POV. Marty was invited to join     the country, winning six
                                                                                         Karl won a special merit at the     the Academy of Motion Pictures     major awards, including the
                                                                                         2018 Amnesty International Asia-    Arts and Sciences last summer.     Voice Award, and an Emmy
                                                                                         Pacific Human Rights Awards.                                           nomination for Outstanding
                                                                                                                                                                Current-Affairs Documentary.

DARKENED PARADISE
(WORKING TITLE)
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THREE ENVIRONMENTAL              Palawan appears to be an idyllic tropical island.       Politics, Wildlife                  Production company:                Marty Syjuco
CRUSADERS CONFRONT MURDER,       Its powder-white beaches and lush forests have                                              Thoughtful Robot                     +1 9173346395
                                 made it one of Asia’s hottest new tourist                                                   Productions, Vulcan                  marty@thoughtfulrobot.com
BETRAYAL AND THEIR OWN DEMONS
                                 destinations. But for a tiny network of environmental                                       Productions, ITVS
AS THEY ARE TESTED LIKE NEVER    crusaders and vigilantes trying to protect its                                              Countries of production:
BEFORE IN THEIR BATTLE TO        spectacular natural resources, it is more akin                                              Philippines, USA, Singapore,
SAVE AN ISLAND PARADISE IN THE   to a battlefield. Darkened Paradise follows Bobby,                                          Hong Kong, Australia
PHILIPPINES.                     Tata and Nieves, three magnetic leaders of this                                             Director: Karl Malakunas
                                 network, as they confront the biggest challenges                                            Producers: Marty Syjuco,
                                 of their lives trying to stop ruthless politicians                                          Michael Collins
                                 and businessmen from plundering the Philippines’                                            Estimated Duration: 80 mins
                                 “last ecological frontier”. It is a timely film                                             Stage of Production:
                                 emblematic of the struggles globally as land                                                Production
                                 defenders are being killed in record numbers trying
                                 to save natural resources from the rapaciousness
                                                                                         FORMAT                              FINANCIAL INFORMATION              LINKS
                                 of corporations and governments.
                                                                                         Single /One-off                     Total budget: AUD $1,238,000          thoughtfulrobot.com
                                                                                         Feature                             Secured finance: AUD $460,538
                                                                                         Hour (52'/60')                      Shortfall: AUD $777,462
                                                                                         70+ mins                            Financiers: Sundance,
                                                                                                                             Bertha Foundation, SFFILM,
                                                                                                                             Vulcan Productions, ITVS
SOCIETY & POLITICS

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PRODUCER                             DIRECTOR, WRITER
                                                                                        KARINA HOLDEN                        TOSCA LOOBY

                                                                                        Karina has 24 years of               Tosca Looby has honed her
                                                                                        experience in documentary as a       storytelling skills on diverse
                                                                                        key creative on Emmy-nominated       and often difficult subjects.
                                                                                        and AACTA-winning programs.          She has created award-winning
                                                                                        Her feature documentary Blue         documentaries in Europe, Asia
                                                                                        premiered at the UN at the           and Australia—proving an
                                                                                        invitation of the President of the   elegant storyteller and one of
                                                                                        General Assembly and has been        Australia’s most talented factual
                                                                                        translated into 10 languages,        scriptwriters. Tosca has also
                                                                                        reaching an audience of over         series-produced archive projects
                                                                                        three million-plus people            in Australia and the UK, creating
                                                                                        through international theatrical     complicated thesis-dependent
                                                                                        release. The crux of her creative    works on issues including
                                                                                        work is to create change, truth      international child abduction,
                                                                                        tell and find unlikely heroes who    modern parenting and Asian
                                                                                        challenge our perceptions.           poaching rings. Strong Female
                                                                                                                             Lead is her original idea and
                                                                                                                             passion project.

STRONG FEMALE LEAD

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A DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING         In this film we distill the Parliament and media        Society, Politics                    Production company:                 Karina Holden
AUSTRALIA’S STRUGGLE WITH THE   response to Julia Gillard’s leadership using                                                 Northern Pictures                     karina@
                                archive from her three-year tenure as Australia’s                                            Country of production:                northernpictures.com.au
NOTION OF WOMEN AND POWER
                                Prime Minister—an honest portrait from a moment                                              Australia
WHEN A STRONG FEMALE TAKES      in time, unmuddied by hindsight. We see the                                                  Director: Tosca Looby
THE LEAD.                       attacks, ever-increasing in their vitriol, sexual and                                        Producer: Karina Holden
                                violent overtones, that characterised her time in                                            Estimated Duration: 75 mins
                                office: Ditch the witch, hag, slut, Ju-liar.                                                 Stage of Production:
                                Strong Female Lead will let us hear what the boy’s                                           Late Development
                                club sounded like as it howled and what
                                happened when Gillard fought back. By offering
                                an unflinching view of misogyny’s foundations—
                                we aim to get better at dismantling it.

                                                                                        FORMAT                               FINANCIAL INFORMATION               LINKS

                                                                                        Feature                              Total budget: AUD $843,273            northernpictures.com.au
                                                                                                                             Secured finance: AUD $293,702
                                                                                                                             Shortfall: AUD $549,571
                                                                                                                             Financiers: Producer Offset

SOCIETY & POLITICS

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DIRECTOR, PRODUCER                    PRODUCER                            PRODUCER
                                                                                          JULIA LANDREY                         DYLAN BLOWEN                        DANNY LECHEVRE

                                                                                          Julia is an interdisciplinary         Dylan is a multi-award-winning      Danny is founder of Cinema-On-
                                                                                          artist who has worked across          filmmaker with a career             Demand Distribution platform
                                                                                          installation, performance art,        spanning more than 20 years in      Fan-Force.com, production
                                                                                          and filmmaking. Her works have        the film and television industry—   company FanForce Productions
                                                                                          been exhibited domestically and       in Los Angeles, New York            and Film Marketing Agency
                                                                                          internationally at festivals, in      and Australia, encompassing         The Solid State. Over the past
                                                                                          galleries and theatres including      documentary and drama               20 years he’s worked across
                                                                                          the Sydney Opera House and            features, television singles        hundreds of international Film
                                                                                          the Museum of Contemporary            and series and streaming            and TV campaigns. The Fan-
                                                                                          Art. Julia trained at The Australia   projects. After taking a hiatus     Force ‘crowd-sourced’ film
                                                                                          Film Television and Radio             as Production and Development       distribution platform operates in
                                                                                          School, National Institute of         Executive at Screen NSW he          37 countries around the world.
                                                                                          Dramatic Arts and University of       has produced films for VICE,        The platform has achieved
                                                                                          New South Wales.                      ABC and Network Ten. The OH         box office records for 2040,
                                                                                                                                Gap will be his return to feature   That Sugar Film and Embrace
                                                                                                                                documentary after producing         and works with a broad base
                                                                                                                                Australian prize-winning            of international filmmakers to
                                                                                                                                documentary The Snowman.            develop, produce and distribute
                                                                                                                                                                    content for a global marketplace.

THE OH GAP

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A CONFIDENT WOMAN, STRUGGLING     Exasperated by the orgasm imbalance in her own          Culture, History, Science             Production company:                 Dylan Blowen
TO ADDRESS THE ‘ORGASM GAP’       relationship, a confident woman realises she is                                               Pony Films Pty Ltd                     +61 (0)414524734
                                  not alone with most heterosexual women                                                        Country of production:                 dylan@ponyfilms.com.au
IN HER RELATIONSHIP, DISCOVERS
                                  orgasming much less than their male partners.                                                 Australia
A HISTORY OF MISINFORMATION                                                                                                     Director: Julia Landrey             Julia Landrey
AROUND FEMALE SEXUALITY, SO       Digging deeper she discovers a long history of                                                Producers: Dylan Blowen,               +61 (0)420990252
SHE BEGINS A MOVEMENT FOR         misinformation, lies and confusion from religious,                                            Danny LeChevre, Julia Landrey          julia@eggshellprojects.com
CHANGE WITH THE HELP OF A GIANT   cultural and scientific groups who have denigrated                                            Estimated Duration: 90 mins
GOLDEN CLITORIS.                  female sexual pleasure and the clitoris. She meets                                            Stage of Production:
                                  with scientists, experts, feminists and artists all                                           Early Development
                                  working to drive change in their respective fields
                                  including Dr Mirkazemi, an FGM-repair surgeon
                                  and Alli Sebastian-Wolf, an artist who creates a
                                  giant golden clitoris sculpture. The experts help our
                                  protagonist create a social movement for change         FORMAT                                FINANCIAL INFORMATION               LINKS
                                  to drive discussion, eliminate shame and most
                                  of all, bring pleasure to women around the world.
                                                                                          Hour (52'/60')                        Total budget: AUD $1,500,000           ponyfilms.com.au
                                                                                          70+ mins                              Secured finance: AUD $579,000           eggshellprojects.com
                                                                                                                                Shortfall: AUD $921,000                fan-force.com
                                                                                                                                Financiers: FanForce Films,
                                                                                                                                Crowdfunding, Producer’s Offset
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

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PRODUCER                           PRODUCER                             DIRECTOR
                                                                                   MADELEINE HETHERTON-MIAU           REBECCA BARRY                        SOPHIE WIESNER

                                                                                   Madeleine Hetherton-Miau is        Rebecca directs and                  Director Sophie Wiesner has a
                                                                                   an experienced and multi-          produces across a variety of         long track record in compelling
                                                                                   awarded director and producer.     genres and has won many              and well received TV series and
                                                                                   Her filmmaking has taken her       awards. Productions include          singles. Sophie directed Call
                                                                                   around the world from diamond      documentary film I Am A Girl;        Me Dad for the ABC, which was
                                                                                   diving in Africa to wildlife       producing the critical and ratings   nominated for ADG and SPA
                                                                                   trafficking in Burma and through   success The Surgery Ship (SBS)       awards. She is a sought-after
                                                                                   the remote Australian outback.     with Nat Geo and controversial       Shooter Producer and Producer/
                                                                                   She works across a wide range      film The Opposition, which           Director on factual series. Her
                                                                                   of documentary and factual         screened at Hot Docs, IDFA,          personal highlights include
                                                                                   programs which have been           Sydney Film Festival and was         Keeping Australia Alive (ITV for
                                                                                   broadcast in over 60 countries     opening night film at HRAFF          ABC), Country Town Rescue
                                                                                   across networks including ABC,     2017. More recently, China Love      (CJZ for ABC) and Bondi Vet
                                                                                   BBC, Discovery, Nat Geo, Hulu      has been enjoying a life on          (WTFN for Network 10).
                                                                                   and Al Jazeera.                    the festival circuit (DOCNYC &
                                                                                                                      GZDOC) and screened on the
                                                                                                                      ABC in 2019.

RESURRECTION PLANET

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CAN WE BRING EXTINCT ANIMALS   Earth is experiencing its sixth great extinction.   Science, Natural History           Production company:                  Madeleine Hetherton-Miau
AND THREATENED SPECIES BACK    Nature is declining at rates unprecedented in                                          Media Stockade                         +61 (0)408622203
                               human history. But now, incredibly, we have the                                        Country of production:                 madeleine@
TO LIFE?
                               power to reverse some of this destruction.                                             Australia                              mediastockade.com
                               Resurrection Planet follows global de-extinction                                       Director: Sophie Wiesner
                               and conservation scientists in the lab and in the                                      Producers: Madeleine
                               field, developing technologies and conservation                                        Hetherton, Rebecca Barry
                               techniques that can bring species back from the                                        Estimated Duration: 4 x 1hr
                               brink of extinction, and some back to life.                                            (extendable)
                                                                                                                      Stage of Production:
                                                                                                                      Late Development

                                                                                   FORMAT                             FINANCIAL INFORMATION                LINKS

                                                                                   Single /One-off                    Total budget: AUD $3,800,000            mediastockade.com
                                                                                   Series                             Secured finance: AUD $840,000
                                                                                                                      Shortfall: AUD $2,960,000
                                                                                                                      Financiers: QAPE

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

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DIRECTOR, PRODUCER,                  DIRECTOR, PRODUCER,
                                                                                       WRITER                               WRITER
                                                                                       SAM LARA                             CATHY HENKEL

                                                                                       Sam Lara has directed and            Cathy Henkel has 30 years’
                                                                                       produced several award-              experience as a documentary
                                                                                       winning short films. Her 2019        producer/director/writer,
                                                                                       Screenwest-funded short film         focused on telling inspiring,
                                                                                       Featherweight was nominated          global stories with cross-platform
                                                                                       for a Dendy Award at Sydney          delivery. Her credits include
                                                                                       Film Festival, and screened          The Burning Season (IF Award
                                                                                       in competition at Flickerfest        and Emmy® nomination),
                                                                                       International Short Film Festival,   The Man who Stole my Mother’s
                                                                                       Cambridge Film Festival              Face (Tribeca Film Festival Best
                                                                                       and Melbourne International          Feature Documentary), Show me
                                                                                       Film Festival, where she was         the Magic (ACS Award) and
                                                                                       selected to participate in MIFF’s    Rise of the Eco-Warriors feature
                                                                                       Accelerator Lab. She is currently    documentary. She received the
                                                                                       freelancing as an Assistant          SPA Documentary Producer
                                                                                       Director on feature films and        of the Year award in 2009.
                                                                                       TV series, and as a director         Cathy is currently Director of
                                                                                       of short films, music videos         WA Screen Academy at Edith
                                                                                       and factual content.                 Cowan University.

LAURA’S CHOICE

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THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN     Laura is 90 years old. She tells her daughter Cathy     Culture, Society                     Production company:                  Sam Lara
COME TO TERMS WITH A RADICAL   and granddaughter Sam that she wishes to end                                                 Virgo Productions                      +61 (0)424648910
                               her life on her own terms. She wants to be in                                                Country of production:                 hello@samlara.com
APPROACH TO DYING.
                               control of the process, to set the time and place,                                           Australia, Austria, Switzerland
                               and be allowed to go with dignity. She embarks                                               Directors:                           Cathy Henkel
                               on the process of applying to a clinic in Switzerland                                        Sam Lara, Cathy Henkel                 +61 (0)410491449
                               where her right to do this, and have her family                                              Producers:                             c.henkel@ecu.edu.au
                               by her side, is legal. She plans a joyous farewell                                           Sam Lara, Cathy Henkel
                               party, and prepares for her final exit. And she                                              Estimated Duration: 90 mins
                               instructs Cathy and Sam, both filmmakers, to make                                            Stage of Production:
                               a film about it. Laura’s Choice explores complex                                             Production
                               questions as three generations of women travel
                               into uncharted territory and navigate a radical,
                               dignified and highly controversial approach to dying.
                                                                                       FORMAT                               FINANCIAL INFORMATION                LINKS

                                                                                       Single /One-off                      Total budget: AUD $268,000             lauraschoice.org
                                                                                       Feature                              Secured finance: AUD $22,800
                                                                                       Series                               Shortfall: AUD $245,200
                                                                                       Half hour                            Financiers: Screenwest;
                                                                                                                            Brian Beaton Award
NEW TALENT

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WRITER, DIRECTOR,                     PRODUCER                           PRODUCER
                                                                                         PRODUCER                              BRITT ARTHUR                       MISH ARMSTRONG
                                                                                         CHARBY IBRAHIM

                                                                                         Charby is passionate about            Britt is an award-winning          Mish has produced
                                                                                         social impact films with a            producer/director. Her             documentaries for all platforms
                                                                                         creative twist. His recent hybrid     documentaries have premiered       including free to air, pay TV
                                                                                         documentary, The Holiday              at prestigious film festivals      and SVOD—including Out of
                                                                                         Inn-Side, found its way onto the      including IDFA, BFI London         Our Minds, Kokoda Trail, and
                                                                                         long-list for the 2020 Academy        Festival, Sydney Film Festival,    Fitzroy Stars; feature drama
                                                                                         Awards in its category, while         and MIFF. Britt’s work has         Life and Death of Otto Bloom,
                                                                                         Bright Lights, a fully animated       been recognised with wins          and documentaries Graceful
                                                                                         documentary about the perils          from the Australian Directors      Girls and Outsider. Mish works
                                                                                         of poker machine gambling,            Guild and ATOM, as well as         as a producer on unscripted
                                                                                         is expected to launch on              nominations from the IF Awards,    TV shows including Long Lost
                                                                                         The Guardian’s prestigious            ASTRA Awards and the Logies.       Family, True Story, and The
                                                                                         documentary platform in 2020.         Her credits include Paper          Block. She was EP on the online/
                                                                                         Charby is currently in production     Trails, SMUT HOUNDS, Life          TV series Housemates and What
                                                                                         on his first feature documentary,     Architecturally, My Uncle Bluey,   Could Go Wrong, and is currently
                                                                                         Life After Juvie, about kids caught   Not in Front of the Kids, Grand    EP on Property Banter.
                                                                                         up in the juvenile justice system.    Designs and Who Do You Think
                                                                                                                               You Are?

LIFE AFTER JUVIE

LOGLINE                           SYNOPSIS                                               GENRE                                 PROJECT INFORMATION                CONTACT

AGAINST THE TORRENT OF ‘TOUGH     In the ongoing debate surrounding youth                Youth, Children, Crime                Production company:                Charby Ibrahim
ON CRIME’ RHETORIC, YOUNG         offending, and the increase of ‘tough on crime’                                              Marhaba Films Pty Ltd                +61 (0)481395079
                                  rhetoric right across mainstream media, there is a                                           Country of production:               charbyibrahim@gmail.com
PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE STICKY WEB
                                  voice too often missing from the conversation—                                               Australia
OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM    that of the young person. Given that seven out of                                            Director: Charby Ibrahim
FIND THEIR VOICE.                 10 young people are likely to return to prison after                                         Producers: Charby Ibrahim,
                                  release, isn’t it time that we stop to ask them                                              Britt Arthur, Mish Armstrong
                                  why? Creatively treated with the use of animation,                                           Executive Producer:
                                  stylised interviews, observational footage, hybrid                                           Jen Peedom
                                  dramatisation, and archival material, the stories                                            Estimated Duration:
                                  told in this unconventional feature-length                                                   90 mins
                                  documentary will have audiences reflecting on                                                Stage of Production:
                                  much more than the ‘criminal act’ itself, but rather                                         Late Development
                                  the life circumstances of the young person and
                                  the social context surrounding their behaviour.
                                                                                         FORMAT                                FINANCIAL INFORMATION

                                                                                         Single /One-off                       Total budget: AUD $800,000
                                                                                         Feature                               Secured finance: AUD $53,000
                                                                                                                               Shortfall: AUD $747,000
                                                                                                                               Financiers: Development—Screen Australia, Film Victoria,
                                                                                                                               Shark Island Institute
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DIRECTOR                           PRODUCER                              EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
                                                                                       NED SPELDEWINDE                    CLAUDIA NANKERVIS                     ROBYN BUTLER
                                                                                                                                                                AND WAYNE HOPE

                                                                                       Ned Speldewinde is a first         Claudia Nankervis is an               Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope
                                                                                       time documentary filmmaker.        emerging producer with an             helm the successful Australian
                                                                                       Starting out as a videographer     impressive list of credits in film,   production company, Gristmill.
                                                                                       for corporate and wedding          television, radio and podcasts,       Prolific and multi-award
                                                                                       videos, Ned expanded his           including Production Assistant        winning content creators, they
                                                                                       skillset as an Assistant Grip on   on Rockwiz for SBS and                co-created, wrote, produced
                                                                                       Gristmill’s award winning Little   Assistant Television Producer         and directed The Librarians,
                                                                                       Lunch. Ned was encouraged          at the Melbourne International        Very Small Business, Upper
                                                                                       to hone his craft as behind-       Comedy Festival. Claudia              Middle Bogan and Back in Very
                                                                                       the-scenes director/producer       has worked at award-winning           Small Business. Robyn wrote
                                                                                       on Gristmill’s hit series, Upper   production company Gristmill          and starred in the feature film,
                                                                                       Middle Bogan, following which      as production runner, executive       Now Add Honey, which Wayne
                                                                                       his making-of special, Inside      assistant, and is now producing       directed. They also co-created,
                                                                                       Upper Middle Bogan, was            several projects in development.      wrote, produced and directed
                                                                                       released on iView. Ned also shot   She currently co-hosts and            the smash hit children’s series,
                                                                                       and produced the EPK for Back      produces an alumni podcast            Little Lunch and, most recently,
                                                                                       in Very Small Business.            for St Michaels Grammar               The Investigators for ABC ME
                                                                                                                          School and produces a monthly         and Netflix.
                                                                                                                          storytelling event in Melbourne.

LIGHTEN MY LOAD

LOGLINE                         SYNOPSIS                                               GENRE                              PROJECT INFORMATION                   CONTACT

A YOUNG MAN DONATES SPERM       The Shire, South West of Sydney and epicentre          Culture, Society                   Production company:                   Claudia Nankervis
TO A LESBIAN COUPLE AND FINDS   of Middle Australia, is an unlikely backdrop for                                          Gristmill                                +61 (0)401847109
                                a young man to help a lesbian couple start a family,                                      Country of production:                   claudnankervis@gmail.com
HIMSELF ON A JOURNEY TO
                                but Ned Speldewinde feels compelled. After the                                            Australia
MAKE AMENDS FOR HIS FATHER’S    birth of Fynn, Ned begins to think about his                                              Director: Ned Speldewinde
ADOPTIVE PAST.                  father’s forced adoption. Lindsay Speldewinde’s                                           Producer: Claudia Nankervis
                                wiped history is in stark contrast to the considered                                      Executive Producers:
                                transparency which Ned experiences with his                                               Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope
                                donor family and Ned discovers that he has                                                Estimated Duration: 75 mins
                                unwittingly embarked on a journey of redemption.                                          Stage of Production:
                                While the family tries for a sibling for Fynn,                                            Late Development
                                Ned determines to uncover Lindsay’s buried past
                                and prosecute his thesis: identity matters.

                                                                                       FORMAT                             FINANCIAL INFORMATION                 LINKS

                                                                                       Single /One-off                    Total budget: AUD $587,112               gristmill.com.au
                                                                                       Feature                            Secured finance: AUD $144,987
                                                                                       70+ mins                           Shortfall: AUD $442,125
                                                                                                                          Financiers: Private financing

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DIRECTOR                            PRODUCER                             EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
                                                                                   ELIZA COX                           GENA LIDA RIESS                      ANNA KAPLAN

                                                                                   With a background in                Gena Lida Riess is a queer           Anna Kaplan is a screen
                                                                                   journalism, Eliza is especially     Melbourne-based filmmaker            producer working at the
                                                                                   interested in exploring human       with experience in independent       intersection of film, storytelling
                                                                                   nature through stories of the       documentary films, journalism        and social change. She led the
                                                                                   everyday man (and woman). Her       and promotional videos. As a         impact campaign for That Sugar
                                                                                   passion for Queens of Concrete      director, her work has screened      Film and implemented localised
                                                                                   lies in her own teenage struggle    both locally and internationally     campaigns for The Hunting
                                                                                   to understand her gender            and has also been distributed        Ground and Life, Animated.
                                                                                   identity. She was neither a         both commercially and for            Most recently, Anna produced
                                                                                   “girly-girl” or a “tomboy”, and     educational purposes. Her most       and is heading up the global
                                                                                   therefore confused by what this     notable work, Creating a Monster,    impact campaign for
                                                                                   made her. After previous success    explores how reality television is   Damon Gameau’s 2040,
                                                                                   at short film festivals globally,   constructed and consumed, and        which premiered at the
                                                                                   Eliza is making her feature debut   the psychological impact it has      Berlinale, grossed over $1.5m
                                                                                   with Queens of Concrete.            on participants. Currently Gena      at the Australian box office
                                                                                                                       is making her debut as a             and is currently being released
                                                                                                                       producer on the feature film         internationally. Anna was
                                                                                                                       Queens of Concrete.                  recently awarded the 2020
                                                                                                                                                            Natalie Miller Fellowship.

QUEENS OF CONCRETE

LOGLINE                       SYNOPSIS                                             GENRE                               PROJECT INFORMATION                  CONTACT

A TRUE LIFE JOURNEY OF        Queens of Concrete is a coming-of-age                Sport, Society                      Production company:                  Gena Riess
DISCOVERY AS THREE GIRLS      documentary following three young skateboarders                                          Gena Lida Films                        +61 (0)438532057
                              over five years. Hayley, Ava and Charlotte have                                          Country of production:                 genalida.riess@gmail.com
WRESTLE ADOLESCENCE IN
                              their sights firmly fixed on competing in the                                            Australia, USA, Japan
PURSUIT OF OLYMPIC HISTORY.   2020 Summer Olympics—the first ever Games to                                             Director: Eliza Cox                  Eliza Cox
                              hold a skateboarding event. With just a few spots                                        Producer: Gena Lida Riess                +61 (0)474706742
                              available on the Australian Olympic team,                                                Executive Producer:                      eli3acox@gmail.com
                              the pressure to impress the Olympic Committee                                            Anna Kaplan
                              is huge.                                                                                 Estimated Duration: 90 mins
                                                                                                                       Stage of Production:
                              Each girl will take a different journey over the                                         Late Development
                              five-year period, navigating professional
                              skateboarding and teen life. Where will it take
                              them and who will they be at the end?
                                                                                   FORMAT                              FINANCIAL INFORMATION

                                                                                   Single /One-off                     Total budget: AUD $750,000
                                                                                   Feature                             Secured finance: AUD $15,000
                                                                                   Hour (52'/60')                      Shortfall: AUD $735,000
                                                                                   70+ mins                            Financiers: Film Victoria, Applicant Contribution

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DIRECTOR                           PRODUCER                        ASSOCIATE PRODUCER,
                                                                                        TZE WOON CHAN                      PETER YAM                       AUDIENCE DESIGNER
                                                                                                                                                           CATHERINE CHAN

                                                                                        Chan Tze Woon is a Hong Kong       Yam produced the Yamagata       Together with Oscar winner
                                                                                        filmmaker. He graduated from       International Film Festival     Ruby Yang, Catherine
                                                                                        the Academy of Film at Hong        Ogawa Shinsuke Prize-winner     established the Hong Kong
                                                                                        Kong Baptist University in 2013.   Yellowing (2016), directed by   Documentary Initiative in 2015
                                                                                        A large-scale occupation in        Chan Tze Woon, which was also   as Project Manager, supporting
                                                                                        2014 prompted him to make his      nominated for the 2016 Golden   filmmakers in the region with
                                                                                        first feature-length documentary   Horse Best Documentary.         seed funding and mentorship.
                                                                                        Yellowing (2016). The film won                                     She serves as Associate
                                                                                        the Shinsuke Ogawa Award at        He also worked on the           Producer for several
                                                                                        Yamagata International             documentary Lost in Fumes       documentaries by emerging
                                                                                        Documentary Film Festival, was     (2017), directed by Nora Lam,   filmmakers. Catherine is a
                                                                                        nominated for Best Documentary     which was recognised by the     journalism graduate and has
                                                                                        at Taipei Golden Horse Film        Hong Kong Film Critics          worked in public relations and
                                                                                        Awards, and qualified for Best     Academy Award and the           administration across Hong
                                                                                        Feature Documentary for            Chinese Documentary Award       Kong and China for over 10
                                                                                        Oscars 2019.                       (Special Jury Prize) by 2018    years. She embraces new
                                                                                                                           Taiwan International            perspectives, in search of the
                                                                                                                           Documentary Film Festival.      best platform for storytelling.
                                                                                                                                                           She is an Audience Designer at
                                                                                                                                                           Torino Film Lab 2019.

BLUE ISLAND

LOGLINE                          SYNOPSIS                                               GENRE                              PROJECT INFORMATION             CONTACT

THREE MEN RELIVE PIVOTAL         Yeung was put behind bars at age 16 for rioting        Politics, Society                  Production company:             Peter Yam
MOMENTS IN HONG KONG HISTORY     against the colonial government in 1967. Chen fled                                        Blue Island Production             +852 95273303
                                 from the Cultural Revolution in 1973, swimming                                            Company Limited                    peteryam@ymail.com
—THE PLACE THEY HAVE LIVED
                                 across an angry sea in a dark stormy night. Lam                                           Country of production:
HALF THEIR LIVES. THEIR VALUES   travelled to Beijing in 1989 to support the Chinese                                       Hong Kong, China                Catherine Chan
SHARED WITH LARGER MOVEMENTS     democratic movement. He bore witness to the                                               Director: Tze Woon Chan           +852 92129669
PAVED THE WAY TO HONG KONG.      Tiananmen Massacre. Fate has once again put                                               Producer: Peter Yam               chantszki@gmail.com
HOW WILL THEY CONTINUE TO        them in the middle of a revolution.                                                       Estimated Duration:
SHAPE THE FUTURE?                                                                                                          90-120 minutes
                                 This is 2019, and Hong Kong is undergoing the                                             Stage of Production:
                                 revolution of our time. How will the future play out                                      Development
                                 for them, and for the people of Hong Kong?

                                                                                        FORMAT                             FINANCIAL INFORMATION

                                                                                        Single /One-off                    Total budget: AUD $431,900
                                                                                        Feature                            Secured finance: AUD $112,778
                                                                                        Hour (52'/60')                     Shortfall: AUD $319,122
                                                                                        70+ mins                           Financiers: Hong Kong Art Development Council
                                                                                                                           Hong Kong Documentary Initiative
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WRITER, DIRECTOR,                    CO-PRODUCER                        SENIOR EDITOR
                                                                                     PRODUCER                             TOM ZUBRYCKI                       ROWENA CROWE
                                                                                     GRANT LEIGH SAUNDERS

                                                                                     From 2007-2011, Grant                Tom Zubrycki is a documentary      Rowena holds a Masters of
                                                                                     produced over 20 TV half-hour        filmmaker whose career has         Arts in Documentary Editing
                                                                                     documentaries for the                spanned 40 years. He has           AFTRS and a Masters in
                                                                                     Indigenous unit of ABC TV. He        produced and/or directed more      Animation from Animation St
                                                                                     was commissioned to produce          than 35 films, and has been        Joost (Netherlands). She is
                                                                                     a short comedy sketch called         actively involved in a number of   passionate about both long
                                                                                     Black Santa for a Christmas          industry organisations including   and short form filmmaking
                                                                                     special in 2013.                     the Australian Directors Guild     and storytelling. Features she
                                                                                                                          and OZDOX. His films include       has edited have screened on
                                                                                     In June 2018 he produced             Kemira—Diary of a Strike (1984),   broadcast television and played
                                                                                     his first independent feature        Homelands (1992), Lord of the      in competition at international
                                                                                     documentary Teach a Man to           Bush (1998), The Diplomat          film festivals, such as Teach A
                                                                                     Fish, which was selected to          (2000) and The Hungry Tide         Man to Fish (2018, NITV) during
                                                                                     premiere in competition at the       (2011). He has received several    the Sydney Film Festival and
                                                                                     Sydney Film Festival, where it       awards including two AFI’s for     Memoirs of a Plague (2011,
                                                                                     placed 5th overall in the category   Best Documentary, and two for      Nat Geo) at the Amsterdam
                                                                                     of Best Documentary and 2nd          Best Director.                     International Film Festival.
                                                                                     in the Audience Choice Awards.

BREAK IT DOWN UNDER

LOGLINE                          SYNOPSIS                                            GENRE                                PROJECT INFORMATION                CONTACT

BREAK IT DOWN UNDER              Australian hip-hop has developed a distinct         Music, Politics                      Production company:                Grant Leigh Saunders
CELEBRATES THE HISTORY OF        cultural personality that reflects its Indigenous                                        Sonic Nomad PTY LTD                   +61 (0)413266448
                                 and multicultural base. The unifying issue that                                          Country of production:                grant@sonicnomad.com.au
AUSTRALIAN SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS
                                 connects these artists is their experience of                                            Australia
HIP-HOP, VISUALLY DECONSTRUCTS   Australian racism and their determination to                                             Director: Grant Leigh Saunders
THE POWERFUL MESSAGES            overcome it, empowered through hip-hop. Finally                                          Producers: Grant Leigh
EXPRESSED AND INTRODUCES         after 10 years of white Aussie hip-hop dominance,                                        Saunders, Tom Zubrycki
THE WORLD OF SONBOY, AN          another sound that is black and brown is coming                                          Estimated Duration: 80 mins
ABORIGINAL TRAP ARTIST FROM      up from the underground. This film visually                                              Stage of Production:
                                 explores some of the lyrical content of Aussie                                           Post-production
REDFERN SYDNEY.
                                 hip-hop, focusing on Sonboy. Having lived and
                                 seen it all, Sonboy’s story provides the audience
                                 with a real example of the relationship between
                                 hip-hop and social justice activism.
                                                                                     FORMAT                               FINANCIAL INFORMATION              LINKS

                                                                                     Single /One-off                      Total budget: AUD $300,000            sonicnomad.com.au
                                                                                     Feature                              Secured finance: AUD $24,000
                                                                                     70+ mins                             Shortfall: AUD $276,000
                                                                                                                          Financiers: Screen Australia

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