Australia’s premier event for documentary and factual storytelling across all forms returns to ACMI in 2025.
Integrating a focus on tomorrow with ideas of storytelling and truth-telling crucial to documentary and factual practice, the AIDC 2025 theme ‘Future Telling’ informs a program that explores new horizons for the sector and considers ways to actively shape the future we want to see for ourselves and our communities.
Through a curated program of industry sessions, spotlight speakers, screenings and initiatives, AIDC 2025 will examine the changes, challenges and possibilities that lie ahead in a rapidly evolving media landscape – from industry reform to innovative modes of creating, new ways of seeing, and inventive ways of taking our stories to audiences across the globe.
Featuring over 40 spotlight sessions and panels, and Australia’s only dedicated nonfiction screen content marketplace, AIDC 2025 will present an unmissable four-day program of knowledge, networking and business opportunities for anyone working in documentary or factual media.
AIDC 2025 highlights include:
- Exclusive spotlight sessions featuring international talents like Shane Boris, producer of the 2023 Academy Award-nominated Fire of Love and Academy Award-winning Navalny; and Shiori Ito, journalist and director of the 2025 Academy Award-nominated Black Box Diaries.
- The FACTory International Pitching Showcase, AIDC’s centrepiece pitch for new documentary and factual projects.
- The 5th Annual AIDC Awards, recognising outstanding new Australian documentary and factual features, series, audio documentaries, and more.
- The curated Cut to the Chase marketplace, which carefully matches creators and producers with industry decision makers for one-on-one meetings.
- A public access program of compelling film screenings and talks, co-presented with ACMI.
AIDC 2025 offers a full range of pass options depending on attendee needs and means, including All Access passes for those wanting access to sessions and the marketplace, and Sessions passes for those wanting session access only.
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Don't miss Documented 2025
Press pause on fiction and celebrate the power of documentary storytelling on the big screen. Co-presented with the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
