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.