sPECIAL INITIATIVEs
Screen Australia often partners with other organisations or platforms on special initiatives. These initiatives leverage finance from third parties in order to grow the funding pool available to practitioners, or to otherwise advance digital storytelling activities and talent escalation.
CURRENT INITIATIVES
Skip Ahead is a joint initiative of Screen Australia and YouTube Australia. Since 2014, over the course of nine funding rounds, Skip Ahead has supported 43 YouTube content creators to develop their skills, and support them to work towards sustainable careers. Skip Ahead is open to both documentary and scripted projects.
Digital Originals is a joint initiative of Screen Australia, SBS and NITV, aimed at developing exciting and innovative online scripted series for SBS and NITV. These series contain 6 x 10-minute episodes for broadcast on SBS and NITV platforms. Digital Originals is targeted at emerging creators working on exciting and risk-taking scripted projects. Experience in writing for screen is not necessary.