Funding approvals
2023-2024 Development Funding
FEATURE DEVELOPMENT
1982
Bacon Factory Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Writer/Director Dean Gibson
Producer Helen Morrison
Synopsis In the electrifying arena of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, an Aboriginal boxer's punches reverberate far beyond the ring, embodying his unyielding conflict between his towering ambition and ancient heritage.
DUBBOO (WORKING TITLE)
Blackfella Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Musical
Director Stephen Page
Writers Stephen Page, Alana Valentine
Producer Darren Dale
Synopsis Dubboo follows the extraordinary life of David Page, from his days as a child star for Atlantic Records, drag queen leading Brisbane’s gay bar circuit, to the visionary music director at Bangara. Told with the music that informed so much of his life and work, Dubboo is a dynamic coming of age story about the power of finding your voice.
AEROPLANE DANCE
Bunya Productions
Genre Action adventure, Drama
Writer/Director Warwick Thornton
Producers David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin
Synopsis Second World War photojournalist Shelly Capper is assigned to a secret mission to locate a grounded Japanese bomber in Arnhem land. When she finds the plane crashed into a swamp, it’s not just the experimental technology that surprises, but what she discovers inside the bombers fuselage...
RUBY MOONLIGHT
No Coincidence Media and Arenamedia
Genre Drama
Writer/Director Beck Cole
Co-Writer Samantha Laughton
Producer Mitchell Stanley
Executive Producers Robert Connolly, Robert Patterson
Development Consultant Ali Cobby Eckermann
Synopsis Ruby Moonlight is a searing, lyrical, and almost silent feature film that upends the dominant narrative of white colonial invasion. It offers a personal, spiritual and immense narrative from an Indigenous female point of view, asserting survival, love, kinship and connection to Country.
TV DEVELOPMENT
Serpentine
6 x 60 mins
Arenamedia
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Creators Kodie Bedford, Tasma Walton
Writer Kodie Bedford
Producer Liz Kearney
Executive Producers Kodie Bedford, Tasma Walton
Synopsis Feisty Aboriginal detective Allie investigates a missing Aboriginal girl in her hometown of Serpentine, uncovering a community fractured and a poisoned country seeking revenge.
Documentary Development
INDESIGN
6 x 60 mins
Future Homes Project Pty Ltd
Co-Writers Mitchell Stanley, Georgia Birks
Producers Mitchell Stanley, Michaela Perske, Nha-Uyen Chau
Researcher Kim Steblina
Synopsis Presented by Georgia Birks, InDesign explores the contemporary and sustainable approach to architecture and design in Australia.
NATIVE KITCHEN
4 x 52 mins
Boardwalk Pictures PTY LTD
Writer/Director Jack Steele
Producer Michael Hilliard
Synopsis Native Kitchen is a documentary series that explores the connection between First Nations people and bush tucker - the challenges of connection to country, of maintaining and passing on cultural knowledge, native ingredients in fine dining, and turning culture into economic pathways for First Nations communities.