Development opportunity for documentary projects
Headlands: Challenging Documentary
An intensive 10-week program of research, writing, conversation and collaboration.
HEADLANDS is an AFTRS initiative, created by the School's Documentary Department in partnership with:
- The Australian Film Commission (AFC)
- Film Victoria
- South Australian Film Corporation,
- ScreenWest
- Screen Tasmania
- the Northern Territory Film Office
and
- Film Australia.
HEADLANDS is the only national documentary development initiative in Australia. It includes a residential week followed by nine weeks supported research and writing time, and culminates in a two day workshop to refine pitching and the positioning of the project in the national and/or international marketplace.
HEADLANDS encourages partnerships between documentary filmmakers and academic researchers to develop substantial projects from relevant, cutting edge research.
The Artistic Director for HEADLANDS 2008 will be John Hughes -a well known writer, director and producer of documentary and drama for film, television and online projects.
Successful Headlands documentary projects announced at AIDC, 2008 (PDF)
HEADLANDS 2008 will:
- Focus on supporting selected applicants through the intensive process of research and development of a high concept documentary feature, series or one-off program that requires extensive research
- Be seeking substantial ideas that can work across a range of platforms, including print, television, internet and or other interactive platforms such as mobiles or serious games
- Be implemented through a series of masterclasses, group and individual sessions with workshop leaders and other leading documentary filmmakers
- Stretch thinking about the form, content and potential of documentary production in Australia
- Aim to locate ambitious projects that engage with complex ideas and open up fascinating research areas to a broad audience by skilful use of documentary storytelling
Participants are chosen on the basis of:
- The strength of the ideas behind their proposed project
- Five projects with one applicant selected from the following states/territory -SA, VIC, WA, NT, TAS.
The project will run in three stages between April and June 2008.
For further information, contact AFTRS Documentary Department on
P: 02 9805 6572
E: louise.said@aftrs.edu.au