New documentary fellowship announced
The new David & Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship will be administered by the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), providing up to $20,000 to its recipient.
The annual fellowship has been established by Kim Williams to honour his parents’ involvement with the creative process, cinema and Australian culture. It will reward “creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation” in documentary.
“For me much of the most important work in film in Australia has always reposed in documentary – the heartland of our national consciousness and sense of what makes Australia. I am delighted to be able to enable a modest contribution which honours the continuing work of the diverse women and men working in this vital area of creative endeavour and in doing so commemorate my parents who were special people. It is a link they would have valued,” said Kim Williams.
The selection process will be based on past work and future ambitions. It is open to Australian permanent resients with at least one critically/commercially successful 50+ minute documentary. The first recipient will be announced in June.
