Document Your World at AIDC, Feb 2007
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 15 youth finalist from the national Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference in February 2007.
The Hero Project mentored the youth teams to prepare their film proposals as a public pitch. This first ever youth-documentary competition saw entries from across Australia, vying for the change to pitch in front of a panel of commissioning editors from ABC and SBS, IDFA’s Director, the Australian Children’s TV Foundation and executives from the media industry. The events MC was Steve Cannane, from Triple J’s Hack.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion for the Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Australian International Documentary Conference; Australian Children’s Television Foundation; ABC TV; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Document Your World presentations
Watch - Introduction
Watch - LOL Pitch
Watch - Legends of Quorn Pitch
Watch - In Our Shoes Pitch
Watch - Oo in Pinnaroo Pitch
Watch - Artists Not Aliens Pitch
Watch - Q&A + Thankyou
Watch - Youth Team Podcasts
OUTCOMES: The 5 finalist teams from Whyalla, Quorn, Murray Bridge, Pinnaroo and Adelaide prepared a 5-minute verbal pitch and a 2-minute video trailer for their documentary proposals – in 2 days they prepared, wrote, test-pitched, shot and edited the most amazing public presentations – feedback from the panel and audience was that it was the best presentations at AIDC that year…
The participants delivered very compelling presentations. In front of over 100 experts and a high-caliber panel from ABC, SBS, Tallstoreez and ACTF, they held their own. Stories included: LoL: Cyberbullying, the Oo in Pinnaroo, Life in Quorn, Artists not Aliens and Nunga Media.
The winner was ‘LoL’, a documentary about cyberbullying; the team won a development purse of $5000 from ABC jtv, to develop a half-hour documentary proposal.
The runner-up was ‘Oo in Pinnaroo’; who were approached by ABC to produce a 10-part mini-series, mentored by the Hero Project.
The teams also produced a series of short clips during the conference for AIDC, interviewing documentary makers and broadcasters about film making and key points of the conference. The clips were shown on huge screens on the same day they were shot. It was fabulous to see the 15 Document Your World heroes mingling with the pro-crowd and gleaning valuable intel.
2007 Australian International Documentary Conference, Document Your World event
2008 Every Drop Counts, (Quorn team) screened at the Flinders Film Festival.
2008 Artists not Aliens, (Whyalla team) 2nd prize in the national ReelLife Film Festival, Sydney.
2009 Pinnaroo Surfer series (Oo in Pinnaroo team) screened on ABC TV
Tags: festival, international, media, regional, youth