AIDC 2005 will present a number of award-winning filmmakers, international delegations and leading buyers from around the world.
International Delegations
Each year, the AIDC hosts an International Delegation from a new territory. In the past, the international delegations have come from Canada, France, China and The Netherlands.
In 2005 the AIDC is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Nordic Delegation. This delegation will include award winning directors and producers, commissioning editors, broadcasters and film agencies from throughout Scandinavia. The Nordic delegation is made possible with the generous assistance of the Danish Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation and Austrade. The delegation includes: Kaarle Aho, Thomas Balmès, Michael Christoffersen, Pirjo Honkasalo, Kim Finn, David Flamholc, Flemming Grenz, John Hakalax, Jakob Høgel, Max Kestner, Karoline Leth, Karolina Lidin, Mette Hoffmann Meyer, Anders Østergaard, Ingemar Persson, Nahid Persson, Iikka Vehkalahti, and Jesper Wachtmeister.
As well as the traditional international delegation, the AIDC is delighted to announce the inaugural Interactive Media Delegation at the AIDC - The Bell Fund Mission from Canada. Hosted by Andra Scheffer, Executive Director of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund in Canada, the Canadian Interactive Media Delegation will be made up of award-winning interactive producers, interactive commissioners and funding agencies. The delegation includes: Mark Bishop, Gail Bryanton, Steven Comeau, Patrick Crowe, Dan Fill, Claude Galipeau, Nathon Gunn, Ava Karvonen, Pierre-Paul Lavière, Jeff Leiper, Anne MacKenzie, Andra Sheffer, Barry Ward, and Diane Williamson. Download more information on the Bell Fund Mission delegation.
Canadian commissioners at the AIDC include: Catherine Olsen, Michael Burns, Cindy Witten, and Eric Michel. Canadian independent producers at the AIDC include: Ed Barreveld, Barbara Doran, Pat Ferns, Michael McMahon, Anne Pick, Peter Wintonick.
There will also be a number of French delegates at AIDC that includes: Thomas Balmes, Catherine Le Clef, Fabrice Esteve, Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Christoph Jorg, Emmanuel Laurent, Elizabeth Marliengeas, Denis Poncet, Jean-Marc Robert.
And from the United Kingdom: Meredith Chambers, Cenwyn Edwards, Sophie Fiennes, Ralph Lee, Nick Fraser, Michael Sutherland, and Alex West.
Members of all international delegations will participate in Meet the Filmmaker sessions, panels and masterclasses.
Buyers
The buyers at AIDC will be made up of broadcasters, buyers, distributors, commissioning editors, and executive producers, including:
- Claire Aguilar - ITVS
- Wolfgang Beck - Discovery
- Wolter Braamhorst - AVRO
- Michael Burns - Documentary Channel
- Jude Callen - TVNZ
- Matt Campbell - SBS
- Claire Colart - RTBF
- Jennifer Crone - SBS-i
- Kevin Dawson - RTÈ Television
- Amanda Duthie - ABC
- Cenwyn Edwards - SC4
- Nick Fraser - BBC Storyville
- Paola Freccero - Sundance Channel
- Claude Galipeau - CBC New Media
- Courtney Gibson - ABC
- Flemming Grenz - DR TV
- Mark Hamlyn - Film Australia
- Mette Hoffman Meyer - TV2 (Denmark)
- Nobuo Isobe - NHK
- Christoph Jorg - ARTE (France)
- David Jowsey - ABC
- Cynthia Kane - Sundance Channel
- Daryl Karp - Film Australia
- Ryota Kotani - NHK
- Ned Lander - SBS-i
- Catherine Le Clef - Doc & Co
- Ralph Lee - Channel 4
- John Lindsay - Towers Productions
- Stuart Menzies - ABC
- Anna Miralis - SBS
- Philipa Mossman - TVNZ
- Say Yong Ng - MediaCorp Studios
- Catherine Olsen - CBC (Canada)
- Ingemar Persson - SVT
- Te Puaki (Tawini) Rangihau - Maori Television
- Ralf Quibeldey - NDR
- Dasha Ross - ABC
- Glenys Rowe - SBS-i
- Andra Sheffer - Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
- Barbara Truyen - Films Transit
- Esther Van Messel - First Hand Films
- Iikka Vehkalahti - YLE (Finland)
- Diane Weyermann - Sundance Documentary Fund
- Cindy Witten - History Channel (Canada)
- Debra Zimmerman - Women Make Movies
Documentary Makers
AIDC 2005 will be presenting a number of high profile documentary makers from around the world. Directors of award winning international documentaries will present masterclasses offering personal revelations about their work practices and experiences.
The Premier of South Australia has invited Canadian documentary maker Peter Wintonick to be the next Adelaide Thinker in Residence. Peter will live and work in Adelaide from 24 January to 29 April. For more information about Adelaide Thinkers in Residence visit http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au.
Originally from Montreal and a veteran of the AIDC, Peter Wintonick is an internationally pre-eminent figure in digital documentary media production. Peter has been a producer, director, critic, media activist and editor of all manner of independent film, video and new-media, an array which includes dramatic features, theatrical documentaries and educational and socio-political works.
He is most noted for co-producing and directing with Mark Achbar one of the most successful documentaries in Canadian history Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media which has played theatrically around the world in 200 cities, won 22 awards in more than 50 international film festivals and has been broadcast in almost 30 markets in a dozen language versions.
Other documentary makers presenting masterclasses at the AIDC include, Allan Collins, Bob Connolly, Max Kestner, Catherine Marciniak, Academy Award wining Denis Poncet (Murder on a Sunday Afternoon, The Staircase), Nick Torrens, Alex West, Peter Wintonick, and Tom Zubrycki.
Keynote Speaker
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for 2005 event is groundbreaking US writer and academic Richard Florida.
Based in Washington DC, Richard Florida is the author of the 2002 best-seller 'The Rise of the Creative Class', which received the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award for that year and was later named by Harvard Business Review as one of the top breakthrough ideas of 2004.
AIDC Director Heather Croall said, ‘We are very excited that Richard Florida will be the keynote speaker at this year's conference and we welcome the opportunity to explore and debate the importance that members of the creative industries play, in our case through documentary production in community prosperity. Cities and regions across the United States and the world have embarked on new creativity strategies based on Florida’s ideas.’
Richard Florida is currently the Hirst Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, Richard was the Heinz Professor of Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon University, and a visiting Professor at MIT and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Richard’s new book 'The Flight of the Creative Class – The New Global Competition for Talent' will be released in the US this April by Harper Collins.