Documentary New Zealand Trust
In 2003, Dan Shanan and Alex Lee felt that New Zealand documentary industry needed to be nurtured and promoted. Local documentary filmmakers need an industry advocate that facilitates broader access to up-skilling, resources and funding like their overseas counterparts.
Recognizing the explosion in audience numbers for documentary films and the world wide rise of documentary filmmaking, it became important to develop a documentary film festival as a way to reach and inform audiences as well as creating dialogue.
Read more about Documentary New Zealand Trust: The Screen Edge Forum, DOC Lab, Documentary Edge Campus
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