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Doc Society and the Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) have revealed the six projects that will take part in a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship starting this month.

The four feature documentaries and two VR concepts selected for the Art & Impact Fellowship consist of Jaydn Ray Gosselin and Elahe Zivardar’s Searching for Aramsayesh Gah; Josie Hess’ Life After Coal; Genevieve Grieves and Ryan Andrew Lee’s Dreaming Country; Taryne Laffar’s Sacred Sites; Maya Newell’s The Quickening; and Matthew Bate’s Untitled Hakeem Project.

The filmmaking teams will benefit from three training labs, attendance at two industry forums – IDFA (the Netherlands) and Aidc – and a day-long pitch summit event.

The fellowship, which is supported through Screen Australia’s Enterprise Funding Program, was announced in August as a way for practitioners to build strategies for using an independent documentary project as a tool for change, focusing on the development of storytelling,...

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