Deadline: Ongoing
The Screen Australia is accepting applications for the Story Development Premium Fund to support screen content makers to take advantage of existing and emerging opportunities to develop compelling scripted stories.
Aims
The Premium Development fund has the following aims:
- Ambition & Scale:Â to identify and support distinctive, quality, higher budget drama projects of ambition and scale for any platform.
- Success:Â to support successful screen content makers.
- Viability & Market:Â to generate viable projects and teams that will attract marketplace finance and are intended for significant audience reach.
- Culture & Diversity:Â to ensure the storytellers and stories being told reflect gender equity, and/or the diversity of people and experiences from around Australia, all of which are important culturally, creatively and economically.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications for Premium are open to anyone who:
- is an Australian individual or team. Co-productions may also apply with an application from the Australian Company.
- has a significant track record/production credit on critically and/or commercially successful projects.
- has a project that is a distinctive, higher-budget series or one-off long form drama project on any platform.
- controls the rights whether they are the writer, director or producer.
- has the demonstrated know-how to develop the project, raise finance and execute the creative vision.
- meets the following budget thresholds
- one-off or series for a Commissioning Platform – at least $1,5000,000 per hour
- Feature films – at least $3,000,000.
Ineligible
You will not be eligible for Generate if you have a project that:
- is a standalone short film
- a short form series
- has been declined twice for Screen Australia development funding (except in exceptional circumstances).
For more information, visit Screen Australia.
