I'm going up to auckland soon to speak from an NZ On Air position about new models and the changing digital environment at the DOCNZ conference. I met up with Barry Barclay last week too and he is creating his own network of documentary filmmakers promoting local stories in local communities. There's a lot of action out there at the moment, not only with all the new digital formats and IPTV platforms, but small groups getting together with digital resources and filmmaking and storytelling skills to just make things happen...
I'm looking forward to creating and seeing new narratives and genre emerge from digital media like what the Channel Four have done with their 4DOCS initiative. the ABC have done some very innovative commisssions with short format documentary, while still attending to the business as usual of long form documentaries about local people and stories.
Trevor Graham, who made the Homeless documentary for ABC will be there...so it looks like a very interesting programme...
