Living The End wins at Banff World Media Festival, Director Peedom wins fellowship
SBS Documentary and specifically Cordell Jigsaw Productions have been recognised for documentary Living The End, directed by Jen Peedom at the Banff World Media Festival in the non-fiction rockies award ceremony.
The documentary was made for, and originally screened on SBS in January 2011 as part of Australian Season, Secrets and Lives. The film follows the life and emotions of three chronically ill people as they move towards death.
Peedom was today announced the winner of the inaugural recipient of the David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship. Announced at the Sydney Film Festival by Joost den Hartog, Executive Director of the Australian International Documentary Conference, Peedom will receive $25,000, the most substantial annual award in Australia for documentary practitioners.
Peedom won an AFI Award, an FCCA and ADG Award for her documentary Solo, directed by herself and Animal Kingdom’s David Michod.
At the Banff World Media Festival the film beat out documentaries from the UK’s BBC and Channel 4 and HBO in the US. View SBS’s Living the End mini-site.