This Fellowship is administered by the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) and has been established by Kim Williams AM to honour his parents’ involvement with the creative process, cinema and Australian culture. 

The Fellowship, which will usually be awarded annually, is intended to reward creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema.

This Fellowship provides the recipient up to $20,000 with which to explore, expand and challenge their filmmaking practice and raise the bar of excellence in Australian documentary cinema.

Announcing the Fellowship Kim Williams said “For me much of the most important work in film in Australia has always reposed in documentary - the heartland of our national consciousness and sense of what makes Australia. I am delighted to be able to enable a modest contribution which honours the continuing work of the diverse women and men working in this vital area of creative endeavour and in doing so commemorate my parents who were special people. It is a link they would have valued." 

The selection of the recipients is to be decided on the basis of past work and future ambitions. To be eligible the filmmaker must be an Australian Permanent Resident and have made at least one critically well regarded and/or commercially successful documentary of fifty minutes or more duration.  

It is envisaged that the first Fellowship will be announced in early June 2011. 

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