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🗓️ Deadline Approaching for AIDC Awards 2026 🗓️
Calling for submissions in the following categories:
🏆Best Documentary/Factual Single
🏆Best Short-Form Documentary
🏆Best Audio Documentary
🏆Best Interactive/Immersive Documentary
🔗 Check link in bio and submit your project by Sunday 30 November (early deadline) to the only dedicated awards for Australian documentary and factual production.
#AIDCAwards #AIDC2026 #BestDocumentary #ShortDocumentary #AudioDocumentary #InteractiveDocumentary
🔦AIDC Leading Lights Alum Spotlight for acclaimed ‘Spreadsheet Champions’ filmmaker
Anna Charalambous’ journey from first-time conference attendee to internationally-released producer began with a single application. Originating as a Leading Lights pitch in 2021 and selected for The FACTory’s New Talent Showcase in 2024, ‘Spreadsheet Champions’ is an AIDC story written in the stars.
🔗 Find out more at the link in bio
Leading Lights 2026 applications close Sunday 7 December 2025. Leading Lights is proudly supported by Presenting Partner @aftrs
Image Credits:
1. Producer Anna Charalambous and director Kristina Kraskov at The FACTory’s New Talent showcase 2024 | Photo by buttersphotography
2. Still from ‘Spreadsheet Champions’ | Courtesy of @goodthingproductions
3. Anna Charalambous and Richard Welch @aftrs in a Leading Lights pitch workshop 2024 | Photo by @ned_mansfield
#AIDC2026 #documentary #LeadingLights #TheFACTory2026 #spreadsheetchampions #pitching
🏆 2026 AIDC Awards - Features & Series Submissions - FINAL DEADLINE REMINDER ⏰
Know a new or recent feature documentary or documentary/factual series that deserves recognition? If so, submit it for 2026 AIDC Awards consideration - the only dedicated awards for Australian documentary and factual production.
The FINAL DEADLINE for submission is coming up this SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER.
Prior feature doc winners include works like `Left Write Hook` (2025), `This is Going to be Big` (2024), and `Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow` (2023).
Recent doc/factual series winners include `Stuff the British Stole` Series 2 (2025), `Never Let Him Go` (2024), and `The Australian Wars` (2023).
The 6th annual AIDC Awards celebrate the incredible talent and expertise of our storytellers and acknowledge the importance of Australian stories that demand to be seen and heard.
Don’t miss your chance to submit. Both features and series can be submitted on link in bio 🔗
Image Credit:
@marcfennell of ‘Stuff the British Stole’ Series 2 accepting the award for Best Documentary / Factual Series, AIDC 2025 | Photo by @maxroux__
#AIDC2026 #AIDCAWARDS #BESTFEATUREDOCUMENTARY #BESTDOCUMENTARYSERIES
⏰ Reminder: Leading Lights applications are open until 7 December 2025
Thinking about attending AIDC for the first time in 2026? The Leading Lights program provides funded conference access and professional development opportunities to early career, Indigenous, diverse and/or regional and remote creative practitioners.
Recipients can also apply for the Leading Lights Pitch, exclusive to the program and reserved for four outstanding projects in development to receive feedback, gain valuable insight and create new industry connections.
Supported by donors of the Leading Lights philanthropic fund and @aftrs
🗓️ Applications close: Sunday 7 December 2025
🔗 Link in bio to apply
Image Credit: Leading Lights Pitch 2025 | Photo by @maxroux__
#AIDC2026 #LeadingLights #Documentary #ScreenIndustry #EmergingFilmmakers #Diversity #AustralianFilm
