AIDC 2009: Opening night, with snakes and gumleaves
The Australian International Documentary Conference opened at the Adelaide Zoo on a muggy night full of old friends, and new faces. As seems to be the scale of the last few years, the conference has 500 delegates, from seventeen countries.
SAFC: it's an investment, not a grant! We just don't want it back...
The South Australian Premier and Minister for the Arts kick-started the opening night party of the Australian International Documentary Conference by shattering the 1980s investment consensus with two new schemes, modestly called the Producer Equity Scheme and Rights Reversion.
Creature Technology: swearing at dinosaurs
About five kilometres across town from the glamourous Screen Hub headquarters sits the West Melbourne home of The Creature Technology Company, centre of the $100 million live action animatronic marvel, Walking With Dinosaurs.
AIDC 2009: more than a mating game
The formal business of AIDC commenced in the hands of Sandy George, in her second career as Wicked Den Mother of Australian conferences. Aided and abetted in this case by Bob Connelly, who has never been known to hold his tongue.
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