The Australian International Documentary Conference was established in Adelaide in 1987. We are now celebrating twenty years of coming together as a community under the umbrella of this conference.

Each conference has been hosted by a different region of Australia and it has grown from a local biennial conference, with a few international guests to become a significant yearly event on the international documentary calendar for factual film and television, seen as the leading documentary conference and market in the region.

The conference now attracts over 600 national and international delegates.

Host cities and past Conference Directors have included:

1987	McLaren Vale	South Australia	Daniela Torsh
1991	Canberra	Australian Capital Territory	Marguerite Grey
1993	Sydney	New South Wales	Daniela Torsh
1995	Melbourne	Victoria	Deb Verhoeven
1997	Brisbane	Queensland	Melanie Guiney
1999	Adelaide	South Australia	Michael Elwood
2001	Perth	Western Australia	Richard Sowada
2003	Bryon Bay	New South Wales	Catherine Marciniak
2004	Fremantle	Western Australia	John Beaton
2005	Adelaide	South Australia	Heather Croall
2006	Melbourne	Victoria	Heather Croall
2007	Adelaide	South Australia	Joost den Hartog