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AIDC and @abcaustralia are thrilled to announce director and producer @dylan.nicholls.film as the recipient of the Indigenous Documentary Placement for 2025.
The paid annual placement provides emerging filmmakers with an opportunity to develop their craft within the ABC’s Factual and Indigenous teams. Dylan will spend four months based at the ABC in Sydney starting next month, furthering his skills in documentary and factual development and production.
Our congratulations to Dylan! We can’t wait to hear about his experience with the ABC.
#abc #aidc #indigenous #documentary @abcindigenous
Photo by @flore_vallery_radot
AIDC & @abcaustralia are pleased to open applications for the Indigenous Documentary Placement program for 2025, with a submission deadline of 27 April 2025.
The placement provides one mid-career Indigenous practitioner with a unique opportunity to undertake a paid four-month placement in Sydney with the ABC, Australia’s largest public broadcaster.
Practitioners from all states and territories are welcome to apply and may be eligible to seek additional support from their relevant state or territory screen agency to help with travel costs.
For Indigenous practitioners interested in applying, a virtual information session hosted by Kelrick Martin, Head of Indigenous, ABC, and Justin Fenwick, Indigenous Employment Manager, ABC, will take place on Wednesday 16 April, 11:00am-12:00pm AEST.
🔗 Find out more about the opportunity, the information session, and how to apply on link in bio.
Image: The Kimberley (2025, @@wildpacificmedia)
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AIDC has wrapped for 2025! Across four days in-person conference and two days of online marketplace, we welcomed 782 delegates, hosted 120 speakers, saw 200 projects pitched, and curated 676 meetings!
Read the full wrap report on link in bio 🔗
Thanks to @wearevicscreen @acmionline @screenaustralia @abcaustralia @sbs_australia and all collaborating partners, and to every person who attended and participated in AIDC 2025!
Photos:
1. [L-R] Ahmad Khayyali (translator), @avanidias (ABC) and @patabboud, Getting Important Stories Out of Impossible Places 📸 @melissa.butters_
2. 📸 @maxroux__
3. Hollie Fifer @thedocsociety & Sudeep Sharma @sundanceorg, FACTory Central Showcase 📸 @kellimorris_photo
4. Kimberley Benjamin, A Vision for the Future of Documentary 📸 @kellimorris_photo
5. Cut to the Chase meetings 📸 @kellimorris_photo
6. @ts.briggs @birraranggafilmfest, A Cultural Reckoning. Truth-Telling, Documentary Cinema, and First Nations Resilience in `Sugarcane` 📸 @kellimorris_photo
7. 📸 @kellimorris_photo
8. @santigrams, Lens on the Self: `Black Box Diaries` and Shiori Ito 📸 @kellimorris_photo
9. [L-R] @marcfennell, @tosca_looby17, Jose Mason Campbell and Bethan Arwel-Lewis, Factual Forecast: Invetion, Innovation and Challenging Form with SBS 📸 @maxroux__
10. @gabrielshipton, The `Censored` Collection: The Story Behind the $55 Million NFT Impact Project that Helped Free Assange, 📸 @melissa.butters_
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Indigenous Creators Pitch Prize - shared between three projects - presented by AIDC and supported by @indigenous_business_australia
The Indigenous Creators Pitch cash prize pool was doubled by an anonymous donor on the day of the Awards, making $10,000 available.
CRYSTAL LOVE - $5,000
Pitch Team: Libby Collins, Genevieve Grieves
HUNTING TIDDA STYLE - $2,500
Pitch Team: Kate ten Buuren, Kimberley Benjamin and Jodie Bell
ABOLISHED - $2,500
Pitch Team: Daniel King and Jen Mellander @first_person_films
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