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AIDC announce 2016 screening line-up

The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has announced its 2016 screening program. 

Cult documentary Catfish will be screened with a live audio commentary by Zac Stuart-Pontier, the film's editor, and Marc Smerling, its producer.

The duo most recently worked together on HBO's The Jinx

Also screening is The Hunting Ground, Kirby Dick's indictment of rape culture on American campuses, and The Memory of Justice, Marcel Ophüls' exploration of justice in the twentieth century, from the Nuremberg Trials to Algeria and Vietnam. 

AIDC will also showcase Op-Docs, The New York Times' short documentary department, screening the banner's best docs, introduced by Op-Docs Commissioning Editor Lindsay Crouse. 

The conference will also host an exclusive screening of Sherpa, followed by a Q&A with the film's director, writer and co-producer Jennifer Peedom and producers Bridget Ikin and John Smithson. 

Also screening exclusively for delegates will be Black As, a new series following young indigenous hunters in Arnhem Land that will be released on ABC iView later this year.

AIDC have also programmed Who is Dayani Cristal?, the winner of the Sundance 2013 Cinematography award, in which actor Gael Garcia Bernal retraces a dead man's steps along the migrant trail in Central America in a quest to find the anonymous man's identity.

AIDC 2016 runs from February 28-March 2.

Fore more info check out the website: aidc.com.au

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