✨ AIDC TEAM NEWS ✨
Big changes as we head towards AIDC 2026!

👋 WELCOME: Virginia Kay joins AIDC as Partnerships & Industry Development Manager - a producer and program manager with 20+ years experience, including Screen Australia`s Producer Offset and Co-Production Unit.

🔄 FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW POSITIONS
Alice McShane → Conference Programming Manager
Natalie May → Industry Manager (Acting)
Nicole Tran → Industry Programs Producer
Tahlia J Dimattina → Conference Systems & Production Coordinator

💙 FAREWELL: Lauren Valmadre moves to Screen Australia`s Documentary Unit after 3 incredible years as Industry Manager. Thank you for everything, Lauren! 🙌

More about team changes on link in bio!

#AIDC2026 #Documentary #ScreenIndustry #AustralianFilm #BehindTheScenes #FilmIndustry #ScreenAustralia

🎥 Got a documentary project with global appeal? 🎥

AIDC 2026`s FACTory International Pitching Forum (proudly presented by @wearvicscreen) just announced:

🏆 INTERNATIONAL PITCH PRIZES at 4 global markets (+ more TBA!)
→ France 🇫🇷 @sunnysidedoc
→ Indonesia 🇮🇩 @docsbythesea
→ South Korea 🇰🇷 @dmzdocs Industry
→ Germany 🇩🇪 @dokleipzig

🌟 WORLD-CLASS PITCH MENTORS! Train with international experts including:
• Heather Haynes - former Hot Docs Director of Programming (Canada)
• Inka Achté - DocPoint Helsinki Artistic Director (Finland)
• Grant Keir - Faction North Ltd (Scotland)
• Heejung Oh - @seesaw_pictures (South Korea)

💼 PITCH TO top broadcasters, streamers, sales agents, funders & distributors
Three categories:
• Central Showcase
• New Talent Showcase
• Rough Cut Showcase

⏰ Early deadline: 5 NOV 2025 🔗 Link in bio to apply

#AIDC2026 #TheFACTory #Documentary #DocMakers #FilmFunding #Pitching #AustralianFilm #VicScreen #DocLife #Filmmakers #IndieFilm #DocuSeries #FilmFestival

🌏 In September, five documentary projects from across the Asia-Pacific region were selected for AIDC pitch prizes at partner forums in Indonesia, South Korea, and Taiwan.

🇮🇩 Docs by the Sea (Bali, Indonesia): ‘Orange, Beetle, Mother and I’ (India)

🇰🇷 DMZ Docs Industry (Goyang, South Korea): ‘Our Bodies’ (South Korea) and ‘Game of Replacing Gods’ (Taiwan)

🇹🇼 CNEX Chinese Doc Forum (Taipei, Taiwan): ‘TSUZY: First Person Plural’ (Taiwan/UK/Australia) and ‘All Fixed Up’ (China/USA)

Each winning project receives complimentary AIDC 2026 All Access Passes for two team members and a fee waiver for FACTory submission.

These partnerships help unlock opportunities for collaboration and co-production with Australian producers, and grow the representation of projects by diverse APAC neighbours in the AIDC marketplace.

Swipe to see images from each project ➡️

Link in bio for full details.

#AIDC #AsiaPacificDocumentary #Documentary #InternationalFilm #Coproduction #DocsByTheSea #DMZDocs #CCDF #FilmFestival #DocMaker

✨ IT`S TIME ✨ Submissions are officially open for the 2026 AIDC Awards!

🏆 6 award categories celebrating the best in Australian documentary and factual storytelling
💰 $5,000 Southern Light Award for outstanding industry contribution
📍 Winners announced 5 March 2026 at ACMI Melbourne / Naarm
⏰ First submissions close 16 November

Does your project have what it takes? Link in bio to submit.

#AIDCAwards #SouthernLightAward #AustralianDocumentary #DocMaker #FactualFilmmaking #AustralianFilm #Documentary #AIDC2026

IMAGES:
1. AIDC Awards | Photo by @maxroux__
2. 2025 Best Documentary/Factual Single winner Tough Not Toxic | Photo by @maxroux__
3. 2025 Southern Light Award winner Celia Tait @artemismediaau | Photo by @maxroux__
4. Dual 2025 AIDC Award-winner @marcfennell | Photo by @melissa.butters_