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The upcoming Regionality Sunshine Coast is set to feature craft, development, distribution and First Nations filmmaking sessions, programmed to fortify and inspire documentary and factual filmmakers.
Leading the jam-packed one-day program is FRAGILE AND EVERLASTING: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS & CRAFT WITH THE TEAM FROM `PORCELAIN WAR`. Join the Oscar®-nominated film’s co-directors Brendan Bollomo (USA) and Slava Leontyev (Ukraine), and producer @camillamazzaferro (@_songbirdstudios_ Australia) as they illuminate the complex world of international creative collaborations, crafting cinematic documentaries on the frontlines, and pathways to global success.
Explore all the sessions to see what’s in store - and don’t forget to sign up for Doc Chat and to submit a documentary development dilemma for workshopping by our experts in the ‘Art of Development’ session (closing Sunday!)
Get tickets and find all the info on link in bio.
🎟️ Regionality Sunshine Coast 2025
📅 Monday 28 July
📍 Mantra Mooloolaba Beach
Regionality Sunshine Coast is presented by AIDC & @screenqueensland, with the support of @sunshinecoastcouncil, in association with @screencollective.
Attending Regionality Sunshine Coast 2025 on Monday 28 July at Mantra Mooloolaba Beach? Only a few days left to register your interest for Doc Chat 1:1 Meetings, matching producers with industry guests to make connections, pitch projects, and get questions answered.
⏰ Applications Close: Sunday 20 July at 11.59pm (AEST)
🔗 Check link in bio to sign up!
Regionality Sunshine Coast is presented by AIDC & @screenqueensland, with the support of @sunshinecoastcouncil, in association with @screencollective.
At the recent @sunnysidedoc 2025 (held in La Rochelle, France, from 23-26 June), two AIDC 2025 FACTory projects found themselves among the winners of Sunny Side’s pitch competitions.
In the New Voices category, the €3,000 top prize went to ‘Restless Farewell’, directed by Nan Yang and Peiyun He, and produced by China’s Shanghai Media Group. The documentary follows a group of third-generation migrant workers seeking to escape their parents’ fate as low-paid factory workers.
Restless Farewell was awarded the AIDC CCDF Award at Taiwan’s @cnex.tw CCDF-15 in September last year, which then saw the project submitted and successfully selected for the FACTory New Talent Showcase at AIDC 2025.
Sunny Side’s pitch competition winners also included ‘Heart’, which took the €3,000 prize in the Science category. Directed by Gloor Alaneo and produced by Matt Blyth of Australia’s @millstream.productions, `Heart` follows the quest to develop the world’s first-ever machine heart.
Heart was submitted for AIDC 2025’s FACTory International Pitching Showcase and selected for the Central Showcase.
Congratulations to the teams behind both projects!
#sunnysideofthedoc #heartdocumentary #sciencedocumentary #restlessfarewell #documentarypitch
We’re thrilled to reveal the full program for REGIONALITY SUNSHINE COAST 2025, a one-day industry event for documentary and factual practitioners presented by AIDC and @screenqueensland with the support of @sunshinecoastcouncil, in association with @screencollective ☀️
Leading the program is the international team behind the 2025 Oscar®-nominated documentary, ‘Porcelain War’ (@porcelainwarfilm) - co-directors Brendan Bollomo (USA) and Slava Leontyev (Ukraine), and producer @camillamazzaferro (@_songbirdstudios_ Australia).
Other guests include some of Australia’s finest and most innovative nonfiction creators and producers, like @deangibson_4017 (Bacon Factory Films, First Weapons), Veronica Fury (@wildbeartv, `Joh: Last King of Queensland`), Ivan O’Mahoney (@infilmssydney, `Unbreakable - The Jelena Dokic Story`), and John Harvey (Brown Cabs, `Atomic Paradise`).
The program will also feature @screenaustralia Head of Documentary Richard Huddleston, @changerstudios co-founder Farhad Meher–Homji (@fmeher), writer and director Jo-Anne Brechin (@joanne_brechin, `Miss Ink`), independent vertical producer Kate Boylan-Ascione (`Why So Disruptive?`), Yale MacGillivray (@nocoincidencemedia, `INDESIGN`), Barbara Ibuai (`Testimony`), Patrick Abboud (@patabboud, Only Human & Dreamchaser, `Gayrabia`), and Paul Wiegard (Co-founder & CEO, @madmanfilms), plus all decision makers previously announced.
Doc Chat 1:1 meeting opportunities with decision makers and industry guests will also take place, followed by knock-off drinks to cap off the day! 🥂
It`s an unmissable event for anyone working (or wanting to work in) documentary and factual production. Tickets are on sale now. Check link in bio for details!
📅 happening 28 July 2025
📍 Mantra Mooloolaba Beach
Images:
📸 Porcelain War
📸 Miss Ink
📸 Testimony
📸 Unbreakable - The Jelena Dokic Story
📸 Regionality speaker John Harvey - photo by @amandagoochcreative
📸 Regionality session Q&A - photo by @amandagoochcreative
📸 Regionality programmer Lauren Valmadre - photo by @amandagoochcreative
📸 Regionality networking - photo by @amandagoochcreative
#regionality #regionalitysunshinecoast #documentary #factual
