Sunday Arts Magazine

8 Nov 2021

Natasha Gadd CEO AIDC

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Natasha Gadd took the helm of AIDC earlier this year, coming to the role with more than two decades of experience across film production, programming and distribution. Over her career, she has worked as a cinema programs and public programs manager at ACMI, festival director of the REAL: Life on Film festival and board member of NFSA. In 2005, she co-founded Daybreak Films, and her debut feature documentary, Words From the City was nominated for five AFI Awards. and her follow up feature, Murundak: Songs of Freedom, received the Grand Prix – FIFO, Best Documentary – Valladolid International Film Festival, and the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award. She has also made a number of short documentaries for SBS, ABC and Foxtel, including Anatomy: Muscle, for which she received an Australian Directors Guild Best Director award.

AIDC is an innovative and industry-leading documentary event which takes place in Melbourne every year, bringing together industry leaders from across the world with Australian nonfiction creators. It’s a great event, in which craft, technology and the future of the sector are discussed and progressed. Natasha is committed to using the conference to create new initiatives that will strengthen our sector, our storytellers and our stories.

The conference also celebrates power of documentaries to ignite social change, and this year will specifically look at how the artform has brought us vital stories from the frontlines and the margins during a time of pandemic-driven lockdowns and closures. In a year of immense social upheaval, environmental change, political unrest and cultural reckonings, documentarians have turned their lenses to all corners of the globe, expanding our knowledge of the world we live in, giving voice to the underrepresented, and acting as an agent of change.

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