Funding approvals
IN THE ARCHIVE
2017-18 Development funding

FEATURE DEVELOPMENT

GINDERELLA
Kalori Productions
Genre Drama
Producer Gillian Moody, David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin
Director / Writer Adrian Russell Wills
Synopsis Ginderella is a dangerous love story.

YARRABAH
Yarrabah Films
Genre Drama, Musical, Comedy
Producers Ian Ludwick, Tim Sanders
Writers Kodie Bedford, Ross Grayson Bell (script editor)
Synopsis The revival of Australia's first ever Aboriginal Brass Band brings healing and hope to a divided community.

CARNAGE
Tamarind Tree Pictures 
Genre Drama 
Producer David Jowsey
Director / Writer Steven McGregor
Synopsis Set in Darwin, Carnage is a contemporary retelling of Charles Dickens’, “A Christmas Carol” as 3 ghosts representing the past, present and future take Jason on a journey through his life, the good times and the bad, and show him the moments in his life that have led to him to become the man he swore he’d never become.

SPECIAL INITIATIVE - SHOCK TREATMENT

DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS
Genre Horror, Comedy 
Director/Writer Joshua Sambono 
Synopsis At a caravan park in rural Australia, a disillusioned park ranger must protect the tourists he hates when they are attacked by drop bears.

FOE
Genre Horror 
Writer Liam Phillips 
Synopsis A woman plagued by sleepwalking episodes discovers that her slumbering body seems to have a sinister agenda of its own, plunging her into a ruthless battle for her own agency - and sanity.

KILLER NATIVE
Genre Horror, Comedy 
Director/Writer Bjorn Stewart 
Synopsis The ownership of land comes at a price.

SCOUT
Genre Horror
Director/Writer Kodie Bedford
Synopsis A kidnapped Aboriginal woman must find a way to escape her captors before her time runs out.

THE SHORE
Genre Horror 
Writer Perun Bonser 
Synopsis A young girl is forced to protect her injured father when a supernatural force attacks their isolated cottage.

VALE LIGHT
Genre Horror 
Writer Rob Braslin 
Synopsis A young mother battles a dangerous witch who wants to take her daughter from her.

GOT YA…GOT YA…NOW I’M GONNA KILL YA
Genre Horror 
Writer Simone Darwina Saunders  
Synopsis Beware child molesters.

TV DEVELOPMENT

FIGHTING GAME (working title)
5 x 12mins
FremantleMedia
Genre Drama
Executive Producer Jo Porter
Director / Writer Darlene Johnson
Synopsis A drama centring around an Aboriginal-run juvenile rehabilitative boxing program and the lives of the people who frequent it.
Development funding for this project was revoked in March 2019.

THE SYDNEY PROJECT (working title)
4 x 60mins
Blackfella Films
Genre Drama, History
Producers Darren Dale, Miranda Dear
Director Rachel Perkins
Writers Kim Scott
Synopsis An epic drama series that chronicles the birth of a new nation and the collision of two worlds, for the first time told from the Eora perspective.

YELLOW WATER BILLABONG
15 x 12mins 
Tamarind Tree Pictures 
Genre Comedy, Animation, Childrens 
Producers Danielle MacLean, Anna Grieve, Alicia Rackett, John Thomson (Story Producer)   
Writers Danielle MacLean, Steven McGregor, Marie Munkara
Synopsis Tommy (11) and his younger sister, Kenisha (8) live on Yellow Water Billabong in Kakadu National Park. This is their country and they have special affinity and obligation to the land and animals here. Together they navigate life around the wetlands that are home to a cantankerous crocodile, bad-tempered water buffalo and some very boastful brolgas - and that’s only counting the animals.  Throw a Mimi and Yawk Yawk into the mix and you are going to get all kinds of mischief.

BB
6 x 60mins 
Blackfella Films 
Genre Drama 
Producers Darren Dale, Miranda Dear
Executive Producer Rachel Griffiths 
Director Rachel Perkins 
Writers Jada Alberts, Angela Betzien, P{ip Karmel, Stuart Page 
Synopsis A high stakes political drama pitting a rising Politian against the party leadership.

PREPPERS
6 x 30mins 
Porchlight Films 
Genre Comedy, Drama 
Producers Liz Watts, Sylvia Warmer 
Writers Nakkiah Lui, Gabriel Dowrick  
Synopsis Preppers is a narrative comedy TV series about a group of mismatched ‘preppers’ in Australia planning for the apocalypse.

ONLINE Development

BUSH TUCKER BUNJIE DOES GOLD COAST
Jetzak Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Producer E.J. Garrett
Director Benjamin Southwell
Writers Gabriel Willie, Benjamin Southwell (co-writer)
Synopsis The misadventures of the Bush Tucker Bunjie on the sunny Gold Coast.

Documentary Development

BACKING BOURKE
Development funding for this project was revoked in October 2018.

WINMAR
90 mins
Essential Media and Entertainment
Genre History and national identity, Social contemporary
Executive Producer David Alrich
Director / Writer Larissa Behrendt
Synopsis Twenty-five years since AFL legend Nicky Winmar lifted his shirt and declared he’s ‘black and proud’ is a moment to reflect on the most iconic image in Australian sport and contemplate what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what Winmar’s act of self-determination means to a new generation of Aboriginal young people.

TRANSBLACK (working title)
4 x 10mins 
No Coincidence Media  
Producer Mitchell Stanley  
Director / Writer Charmaine Ingram
Broadcaster ABC   
Synopsis Following the day-to-day lives of four Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island transgender men and women; this is the story of how four inspirational and courageous people have changed the perceptions of themselves and those closest to them.

SPECIAL INITIATIVE - STATE OF ALARM

BURNING GROUND (Formally BURNING COUNTRY)
60mins
Garuwa Creative  
Producer Kieran Satour 
Executive Producer Pauline Clague
Director Genevieve Grieves 
Writers Genevieve Grieves, Kieran Satour
Development funding for this title was revoked.

FORGOTTEN VOICES (working title)
55mins
Director / Writer Daniel King 

GUARDIANS OF THE COUNTRY
30mins
Ramu Productions Pty Ltd   
Producer Jodie Bell 
Director Bessy-May Taylor 
Writer Gary Hamaguchi  

NO FRACKING WAY
5 x 5mins
CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd 
Producer Viviana Petyarre 
Director / Writer Levina Letchford 

POINT OF NO RETURN
5 x 7mins
Jarndoo Media  
Producer Luke Riches 
Executive Producer Dan Brown  
Director Daniel Riches 
Writer Luke Riches  

SHARK DREAMING
25mins
Side Tracked TV Multimedia Productions 
Director / Writer Ashley Gibb 
Production funding for this project was revoked in April 2019.

SILENT KILLER OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF 
25mins
Whitelight Film and Video Productions Pty Ltd
Producer Ian Ludwick
Executive Producer Tony Gordon
Director Chantelle Murray
Writer Ian Ludwick

THE ABORIGINAL CARBON FUND
25mins
Lyndsay Urquhart (sole trader)
Producer Lyndsay Urquhart
Executive Producer Rowan Foley 
Director / Writer Lyndsay Urquhart