Walkley Award for Excellence in Documentary: Call for entries

The inaugural Walkley award for Excellence in Documentary is now accepting submissions.

The award is open to a variety of documentary styles; investigative, biographical and first-person. This new addition to the awards joins the non-fiction book award in rewarding long-form journalism.

As Anna Broinowski said at the launch last month, “With information delivery platforms now sped up to the point that a Twitter sentence is news, it is encouraging to know that the Walkley Foundation values the narrative complexity, intellectual engagement and emotional depth that longer-form documentaries continue to achieve.”

The documentary piece may have first been released for theatre, broadcast or the web, with a run time of over 40 minutes. Entries must also have been shown in the 12 months from September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2011 to be eligible for entry.

The winner will be invited to Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.

Entries close Wednesday 31 August, 5pm.

For more information visit Walkleys.com/documentary