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Julia Peters wins ABC’s Factual Format Initiative for format concept Detention

Julia Peters at Deakin Edge yesterday.

Executive producer Julia Peters has won the inaugural ABC Factual Format Initiative.

The Factual Format development pitches took place at Melbourne's Deakin Edge auditorium yesterday as part of AIDC's FACTory day, in which producers pitched their ideas – both short and long form – to a formidable lineup of local and international 'decision makers'.

They included representatives from PBS, Discovery, the BBC, World Channel, Vice, Dazed, SBS, the ABC, Foxtel and Madman.

Peters now receives $15,000 in development funding for her format idea Detention, in which ordinary people are sent to stay in a detention centre.

Her pitch followed another with an identical concept (and which was to have been executive produced by Pulse's Roy Ackerman).

Peters worked at Essential Media and Entertainment as an EP between 2011-2013, and as the investment development manager for documentary at Screen Australia after that.

She also works at production House The Feds as EP, Broadcast and Content.