Funding Approvals
IN THE ARCHIVE
2020-2021 Production funding
JUNE 2021
OF AN AGE
Causeway Films
Genre Drama
Writer/Director Goran Stolevski
Producers Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings
Distributor Bonsai Films
International Sales Bankside Films
Synopsis Summer, 1999. An unexpected and intense twenty-four-hour romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old Serbian ballroom dancer and his best friend’s older brother. A decade later the pair meet for a bittersweet reunion.
PHOTO BOOTH
Carver Films Pty Ltd and Treeline Films
Genre Drama
Writer/Directors Spencer Harvey, Lloyd Harvey
Producers Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish, Cathy Konrad
Distributor Transmission Films
International Sales Bankside Films
Synopsis Photo Booth is the story of Jean Bouchet, a renowned performance artist past her prime childbearing years who desperately wants to be a mother, even if it means adopting the child born of her husband’s infidelity.
Funding for this project was revoked in August 2023.
THE MOUNTAIN
Vertigo Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Mystery
Writer/Director Rolf de Heer
Producers Rolf de Heer, Julie Byrne, Ari Harrison
Distributor Umbrella Entertainment
International Sales Fandango Sales
Synopsis Not knowing if she's alive or dead, and battling privilege and pestilence, BlackWoman finds skeletons and has her boots stolen.
FEBRUARY 2021
KID SNOW
Unicorn Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama
Director Paul Goldman
Writers John Brumpton, Phillip Gwynne, Shane Danielsen, Stephen Cleary
Producers Lizzette Atkins, Megan Wynn, Bruno Charlesworth
Distributor Madman
International Sales Elle Driver
Synopsis When a washed-up tent boxer gets one last shot to make a name for himself, he's forced to choose between old dreams and new love.
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
Arenamedia Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Animation
Writer/Director Adam Elliot
Producers Liz Kearney, Adam Elliot
Executive Producer Robert Connolly
Distributor Madman
International Sales Charades
Synopsis A bittersweet remembrance of Grace Puddle; a lonely hoarder of ornamental snails living in Canberra.
PETROL
Arenamedia Pty Limited
Genre Drama, Mystery
Writer/Director Alena Lodkina
Producer Kate Laurie
Executive Producers Robert Connolly, Liz Kearney
Distributor Cinemaplus / SBS
International Sales Maze Film Sales
Synopsis An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.
deceMBER 2020
SERIOUSLY RED
Dollhouse Pictures
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Gracie Otto
Writer Krew Boylan
Producers Robyn Kershaw, Jessica Carrera
Executive Producers Rose Byrne, Sonia Borella , Tim White, Jack Christian, Deanne Weir, Josh Pomeranz, Clare Ainsworth Herschell, Invisible Wall
Distributor Roadshow
International Sales Arclight
Synopsis Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
NOVEMBER 2020
HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN
Such Feisty Dames Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer/Director Renée Webster
Producers Tania Chambers, Judi Levine
Executive Producers Deanne Weir, Roxana McMallan, Olivia Humphrey (with others)
Distributor Madman Entertainment
International Sales Beta Cinema
Synopsis When her all-male house cleaning business grows out of control, a mature woman must acknowledge her own appetite if she is to make a new life for herself.
GOLD
Deeper Water Films
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Anthony Hayes
Writers Anthony Hayes, Polly Smyth
Producers John Schwarz, Anthony Hayes, Michael Schwarz
Consulting Producer Shana Levine
Executive Producer Andrew Mann
Distributor Madman / Stan
International Sales Altitude
Synopsis Gold is a film about greed and the lengths people will go to in order to secure themselves a fortune.