Maya Newell wins F4 doco award in Adelaide
Maya Newell has won the F4 Award for Outstanding New Documentary Talent, presented by the Australian International Documentary Conference and the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival.
Newell’s film TWO was one of the four finalists, chosen from the more than 80 entries received by the Australian International Documentary Conference.
TWO i’s an expose of a secret personal world of adult babies, with the focus on an eccentric middle aged British man with a furry fetish, who is locked into a continual state of wanting to being two years old.
The jury was headed by Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films), joined by Fiona Lawson-Baker (executive producer, Ten Alps Asia), Anna Miralis (Channel4), Jenny Neighbour (programs manager, Sydney Film Festival) and Peter Newman (executive producer of factual for SBS).
“The jury agreed unanimously on TWO because it displays the sensitivity needed for its extremely delicate subject. It was closely observed yet discreet and powerful in its simple depiction of this quite bizarre and little known corner of the human condition,” said Scrine.
A special mention went to Sieh Mchawala’s Barefoot in Ethiopia.
