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See the photos: SA practitioners represent at AIDC 2026

12 March 2026

South Australia’s screen sector was strongly represented at the 2026 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Melbourne last week, with a contingent of SA creatives in attendance including 10 practitioners directly supported by the SAFC.

SA creatives supported to attend the conference included Ben Golotta of Repeater Productions; Jolyon Hoff of Light Sound Art Film; Lara Damiani of Think Films; Matthew Bate of Closer Productions; Sandy Cameron of Mostly True Media; Scott Baskett of Run Wild Productions; Simon Williams of Gravity Films; Raquel Trejo Aguilar and Yasemin Sabuncu.

The SAFC was also pleased to support participation by emerging SA creative Grace Liu, who was selected for AIDC’s Leading Lights program supporting emerging and diverse practitioners attending AIDC for the first time. Other emerging SA creatives who attended AIDC through the Leading Lights program included Tarsha Viskic, Madison Siegertsz, Shano Sanati and Max Brading. Find out more about Grace Liu through our recent Emerging Talent Spotlight article.

Other SA creatives attending AIDC 2026 included SA producers Bec Summerton and Sarah Wormald of Closer Productions, SA writer, director and producer Shalom Almond, SA producer Brendon Skinner of Gravity Films, and SA producer Katrina Lucas who was appointed to this year’s AIDC Awards Jury and attended as a guest of the conference.

SA’s Closer Productions won big at the AIDC Awards held at ACMI on 5 March, taking out the Post Lounge Group Doc Pitch Prize for Hell Has No Fire Escape, with $15,000 worth of development services across The Post Lounge Group; the $25,000 Shark Island Foundation Feature Docs Pitch Prize and the $10,000 Doc Play Indie Booster for The Dig, and both the FACTory DMZ Doc Prize and Dok Leipzig Prize for Sisters in War.

SAFC Production Executive (SA Led) Mags Scholes and SAFC First Nations Program Lead Brian Scarce also attended AIDC on behalf of the SAFC, with Mags speaking on the panel of screen agency representatives for State of the Nation: Meet the Screen Agencies. 

See photos from the event below.