Join us for a day of guests working in Documentary and Factual film and TV across development, production and financing.

Award-winning director and writer, Kay Pavlou, will chair conversations with leading Australian filmmakers and financiers, including:

Documentary Australia, Mitzi Goldman

Minderoo Pictures, Amanda Clarke

Matthew Bate, Closer Productions

Josh Trevorrow, Filmmaker & Producer

Arlo Dean Cook, Filmmaker 

Date:  Saturday 10 October 2026 

Time: Doors 9.30am | Lab: 10.00am – 4.00pm | Networking: 4.00pm – 5.00pm 

Venue:  The Mercury

Cost: Free for Mercury Members · $75 General Admission · $35 Secondary and Tertiary Students *Must present Student ID at the door.

Kay Pavlou

Kay Pavlou is an award-winning director/writer of both documentary and drama. In documentary, Kay has written and directed many episodes of the popular SBS series Who Do You Think You Are? including episodes on Adam Goodes, Bert Newton and Toni Collette. She is always on the lookout for complex, emotional stories that surprise and inspire like those of the farmers in Fightback Farmers, the athletes in Race to London, Reverend Tim Costello in Family Confidential, and the many characters in Cyprus A People Divided.  

In drama, Kay directed episodes of McLeod’s Daughters, All Saints, and Love is a Four-Letter-Word, as well as the feature, Mary, and shorts, The Killing of Angelo Tsakos and Inside Out.