Nominees have been introduced for the 2024 AACTA Award for Best Documentary.
The enlargement of the Award from six to eight feature-length non-fiction ominees comes after a file variety of 41 productions submitted for consideration, probably the most in AACTA historical past.
The nominees are:
– Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
– Harley & Katya
– John Farnham: Finding The Voice
– The Dark Emu Story
– The Giants
– The Last Daughter
– This Is Going To Be Big
– To Never Forget
AACTA CEO, Damian Trewhella stated, “It is a exceptional to see the record-breaking variety of compelling entries acquired. It is a testomony to the expansion of the Australian display screen business and the heightened dedication to championing non-fiction tales. Each of the eight nominees reveal the ability of storytelling, shedding mild on various views and driving significant conversations. Be positive to be careful for these unbelievable documentaries.”
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Director Paul Goldman’s Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story is a uncommon perception into how hitmaker and trailblazer Michael Gudinski impressed the soundtrack of a nation and revolutionised the Australian music business. Filmed after the passing of Gudinksi, the movie is informed in his personal phrases from over 850 items of archival materials and 50 interviews together with Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue and Dave Grohl.
Harley & Katya
Harley & Katya tells the story of Indigenous determine skater Harley Windsor from Western Sydney and Ekaterina “Katya” Alexandrovskaya from Moscow. Together they shaped a magical partnership on ice, making historical past for Australia with Harley turning into Australia’s first Indigenous Winter Olympian. Unfortunately, their story turns into a disturbing and profoundly shifting research of elite athletes who rise to the highest of their self-discipline, and the toll that such an ascent can take.
John Farnham: Finding The Voice
Poppy Stockell’s first theatrical characteristic John Farnham: Finding The Voice follows the untold story of Australian music icon John Farnham. Through dwelling footage, uncommon live performance archives and commentary from musical colleagues together with Richard Marx, Celine Dion and the late Olivia Newton-John, the documentary follows the rise of Farnham from ‘60s pop fame to record-breaking success on the age of 38 with the discharge of Whispering Jack.
The Dark Emu Story
Based on the 2014 best-selling guide, The Dark Emu Story explores the explosive claims that First Nations individuals had been farmers who had been a part of a posh financial system that challenged Australia to rethink its historical past and ignited debate. From director Allan Clarke and produced by Blackfella Films it delves deep into the controversy, enlightens our understanding of Australian historical past and gives a platform for First Nations peoples to share their story.
The Giants
Intertwining the life cycle of historic bushes with the lifetime of Bob Brown, administrators Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony have created a cinematic portrait of the politician that required rigging massive format cameras 100m up within the bushes’ cover and 3D scanning precise forest to create ‘spellbinding’ animations. The documentary explores Brown’s life, turning into the primary overtly homosexual member of parliament in Australia and chief of the Australian Greens throughout its institution.
The Last Daughter
Director Brenda Matthews is a Wiradjuri lady who at two years previous was taken from her household and positioned with a white foster household. At seven, she was returned to her organic mother and father. The Last Daughter tells Brenda’s story as she makes an attempt to seek for her foster household with whom she had misplaced all contact with, in an try and be taught the reality about her upbringing and reconcile the 2 sides of her household.
This Is Going To Be Big
In director Thomas Charles Hyland directorial debut, This Is Going To Be Big follows Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist School as they prepare their John Farnham themed musical. Told from the angle of a choose variety of college students, the documentary is a peek backstage as a solid of neurodivergent teenagers put together to return of age and hit the stage. Students inform their very own story, making certain genuine and significant illustration of the incapacity group on-screen.
To Never Forget
In this recreation of a photograph from 1941, director Peter Hegedüs explores the story of the ladies captured in time through the Latvian Holocaust. Using new immersive 360 expertise and aided by Ethel Davis, a 92-year-old Jewish Australian, the documentary exposes how the Holocaust continues to have an effect on lives, households and geopolitics in the present day.
