19th May 2012
Ozzie Docs Shine In Europe
30th October 2010
Australian documentaries are on the European map this
month.
Their documentary features and shorts can be found at this year's
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), arguably
the world's biggest documentary event. It takes place 17-28
November.
Australia non-fiction works are also on show at the UK's Sheffield
Doc/Fest during 2-7 November.
Leading the charge is director Robert Nugent and producer Mitzi
Goldman, of Looking Glass Pictures.
Their Memoirs Of A Plague is a contender for the IDFA's inaugural
Competition for Green Screen Documentary.
The Green Screen competition promotes documentaries that portray
the "interaction between man and his environment". It also aims to
commemorate 2010 as the United Nation's International Year of
Biodiversity. The winner will walk away with €2,500.
Memoirs Of A Plague is also up for the festival's Audience
Award.
Other Australian documentaries on show at the IDFA are Cane Toads:
The Conquest, written and directed by Mark Lewis for Radio
Pictures; and Umoja: No Men Allowed, by Elizabeth Tadic for Film
Itch.
Participating in Sheffield's Doc/Fest are Mind, by Emma Crimmings
for Matchbox Pictures; The Miscreants of Taliwood, by director
George Gittoes for Gittoes & Dalton Productions; Mogadishu
Dreaming, written, directed and produced by Lesley Branagan; and
The Mystery of Flying Kicks, by Matthew Bate for Closer
Productions.
Photographer Claudio Rasano
From the exhibition Strange Bedfellows 1