News edition for 23 July 2026. Added to Nungya on 22 October 2026 as part of our retrospective news archive. Reporting reflects information available by the edition date.
A festival’s most visible days can be brief. Training and mentoring may continue long after the exhibition floor is packed away.
CIAF’s announcement of 8 June 2026 describes a $50,000 digital storytelling initiative running from June 2026 to June 2027. It includes online, hybrid and on-Country workshops, mentoring and opportunities to make recordings across regional and remote Queensland.
The work sits within CIAF’s CATAPULT professional development platform, in partnership with Talicia Minniecon of Mob Made Media & Communications Agency. The published description includes ethical media practice, consent, attribution and community-owned recordings among its priorities.
Those subjects belong beside technical skills. Learning how to capture audio or video does not answer every question about whether a story should be recorded, who decides where it goes or how a contributor is acknowledged. The initiative places those decisions within the training conversation.
This edition reports the announced program, not an assurance that places are currently available. People interested in its activities should seek the organiser’s current information.
For everyone who watches or shares digital stories, there is another useful habit: look for the maker, the community context and the conditions of sharing. A short clip can have a long chain of decisions behind it. Noticing that work makes a more attentive audience.
