Guidelines
Eligibility

Producers, copyright, underlying works

By definition, there must be a producer from each co-production country, known as a co-producer. From Australia’s point of view, as executive producers on feature films are not considered creative roles, executive producers may be from a non-party country where it can be demonstrated that the executive producer does not play a technical or creative role.
In order to be recognised as such, the co-producers must be genuine creative producers; that is, the mere contribution of finance is not sufficient.

Copyright

The Australian co-producer must retain a share of copyright in the co-production, at least by the time that an application is made for final approval. This refers to copyright in the finished film, not copyright in any underlying work.

Underlying works

Subject to the terms of the relevant co-production arrangement, a film may be based on an underlying work (such as a novel) from any country.