IF caught up with some of the key decision makers attending AIDC, including POV, BBC Storyville, ARTE France and Sundance Film Festival, to find out what they're looking for.
Writer-director Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' has been hailed by reviewers at the Sundance Film Festival as a powerful, gripping and affecting debut.
Roadshow Films will release Jub Clerc's 'Sweet As' in Australia and New Zealand next year after acquiring the distribution rights to Nyul Nyul/Yawuru director's debut feature.
'Neptune Frost', directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, is the winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Bright Horizons Award, while Jub Clerc won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award.
'Sweet As', the debut feature from Nyul Nyul/Yawuru filmmaker Jub Clerc, is dubbed "The Breakfast Club meets the outback".
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
Sue Thomson's 'Under Cover' follows the plight of ten women as they find themselves too old to be employed, struck down with illness, unable to get back into the workforce, and dealing with the aftermath of difficult breakups and divorce.
The main character in Alena Lodkina's sophomore feature 'Petrol' may be a filmmaker of Russian background, but the writer-director insists it's a personal tale, not necessarily an autobiographical one.