Screen Australia

Screen Australia aims to inspire, inform and engage screen audiences through compelling Australian storytelling.

Screen Australia invests in a wide range of screen projects and practitioners. Explore funding approvals across all programs and initiatives – showcasing the diversity of Australian stories and the creative teams bringing them to life.

Funding recipients should also refer to Doing Business with Us. For approvals prior to 1 July 2025, please review our Annual Reports here.

Disclaimer: Screen Australia does not make public the details of individual titles that receive production funding until their first public announcement (at the discretion of the broadcaster/distributor), nor release details of amounts given to individual titles. At the end of the financial year, these details for the full year are made public.

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Title/Opportunity Platform Recipient State/Territory Key Creatives Funding Program Year Description
Title/Opportunity All the Birds, Singing
Feature GoodThing Productions VIC Director Susanna White. Writer Kodie Bedford. Producers Helen Jones, Naomi Wright, Virginia Whitwell, Nick Batzias. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 On a remote British island, a young woman fleeing a violent past in Australia struggles to build a life as a sheep farmer, but when her flock is mutilated by an unseen predator, she’s dragged into a fight for survival where past trauma and present terror collide.
Title/Opportunity Coltrane
Online New Canvas NSW Director Sarah Goodes. Writer Jenevieve Chang. Producers Nathan Anderson, Diana Glenn, Sarah Goodes. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 A down-and-out PI in Hong Kong stumbles into a murder that was meant to destroy her, and a conspiracy that runs straight through her own family.
Title/Opportunity Dreamboat
Feature Denim Pictures Pty Ltd NSW Writer Joan Sauers. Script Editor Joan Scheckel. Producers Kate Riedl, Courtney Botfield. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 Forced into retirement but not ready to quit, Suzy is reluctantly dragged onto a South Seas cruise by her best friend Val – only to discover they’re headed to Antarctica, not Tahiti. Dreamboat is a laugh-out-loud adventure about friendship, fresh starts and freezing your butt off.
Title/Opportunity FUR CHILD
Feature Firelight Productions NSW Writer Clare Atkins. Producer Marcus Gillezeau. Executive Producers Robert Luketik, Craig McMahon. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 When cool, grungy thirteen-year-old Alexa finds herself stuck in a body swap with her adorable hyper- friendly puppy Nessie she is forced to confront all the ways she hasn’t been loyal to her family and friends…and herself.
Title/Opportunity Graceless
Feature Closer Films pty ltd SA Director/Producer Sophie Hyde. Writers Sophie Hyde, Matthew Cormack. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 An adopted woman inexplicably changes bodies throughout the course of her life. She rides the uncertainty of various ages, sizes, skills and genders with brazen freedom but when one of her bodies bears her a daughter, will she pass on this uncanny gift to her?
Title/Opportunity Inferno
Feature Frankendipity Enterprises Pty Ltd NSW Director – Mark Wills. Writers – Mark Wills, Rahel Romahn. Producers – Rahel Romahn, Yolandi Franken. Narrative Content Short Film Production Funding 2026 When a group of teenagers plot a cruel prank on an alienated boy, they unwittingly awaken a quiet force within him.
Title/Opportunity Lazy Love (Lasagne 365)
Feature KAPWA PTY LTD NSW Directors – Haein Kim, Paul Rhodes. Writer – Paul Rhodes. Producer – Robertino Zambrano. Executive Producers – Dulce Aguilar, Robertino Zambrano. Narrative Content Short Film Production Funding 2026 Lasagna and racist foot-lickers will collide! Apple’s and her crew pursue her racist boss to avenge her insult against so-called ‘stinky Asian food’. Meanwhile Toby sets out on an epic quest to acquire the best lasagna in the West.
Title/Opportunity Maya, Mother of God
Feature Harvey House Productions Australia Pty Ltd NSW Writer/Director – Lloyd Harvey, Spencer Harvey Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 Single mother Maya’s life is upended when her 6-year-old son takes credit for a global phenomenon that heals 1% of the world’s population.
Title/Opportunity SHARK BAIT
Feature Nicholas John Lacey WA Directors Nick Lacey, Nathan Lacey. Writers Nick Lacey, Nathan Lacey, D.C. Stephens. Producers Nick Lacey, Nathan Lacey, Brendan Donoghue. Executive Producers Michael Wrenn, Nash Edgerton, Amanda Maple-Brown. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 A photographer accompanies her new boyfriend to his rural hometown. There, amid grief, buried tensions and primal behaviour, she is drawn into a secretive shark-fishing ritual where she must confront the violence she’s been quietly documenting – and the part she plays in it.
Title/Opportunity Sundowner
Feature MukAround Productions Pty Ltd WA Director – Gary Hamaguchi. Writer – Calen Tassone, Jamahl Ryder. Producer – Shakara Walley. Narrative Content Short Film Production Funding 2026 Stephen must decide between his heart and his head when it comes to work and personal life.
Title/Opportunity THE NOVELTY
Feature The Novelty Pty Ltd — Writer/Director – Charlotte Mungomery. Producers – Rebecca Lamond, Charlotte Mungomery, Clementine Anderson. Executive Producers – Julian Maroun, Kat Stewart. Narrative Content Short Film Production Funding 2026 In the heat of a summer's eve outside a Dalby hairdressing salon innocence curdles with cruelty as a young girl's silence breaks with an irreversible act.
Title/Opportunity The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
TV DREAMCHASER PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD NSW Producer Erin Bretherton. Writer Penelope Chai. Executive Producer Monique Keller, Holly Ringland, Penelope Chai. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 After discovering a notebook of mysterious tattoos that her sister had inked on her body before she disappeared, Esther begins unravelling the mystery of what really happened to Aura.
Title/Opportunity The Spare Room
Feature Byzant Pty Ltd NSW Writer Hannah Carroll Chapman. Producers Carly Heaton, Antony Waddington, Ákos Armont. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 Practical Helen believes she can help her friend Nicola face death with grace. But Nicola, eccentric and defiant, clings to alternative cancer treatments. Over three intense weeks, their friendship is tested in a battle of wills, forcing both women to confront control, mortality, and what it truly means to care.
Title/Opportunity The Third Act
TV Racing Pulse Productions Pty Ltd NSW Director Ros Horin. Writer Ros Horin. Producers Jeff Daniels, Ros Horin. Executive Producer Bettina Dalton. Documentary Development 2026 CAN CREATIVE PARTICIPATION REWIRE OUR BRAIN AND RENEW OUR BODIES AND SPIRITS, IN OUR THIRD ACT? A series revealing how the Creative Arts positively impacts the ageing process; for both professional artists and newcomers engaging in community arts.
Title/Opportunity You Wish
Feature PIXEL ZOO PTY LTD QLD Director Nathaniel Russell. Writer Tania Vincent. Producers Sebastian Gonzalez, Georgia Tobin. Narrative Content Development Funding 2026 12-year-old Avery’s dull life is turned upside down when she discovers she is half-genie! She embarks on an extraordinary adventure to rescue her long-lost mother from genie prison. Along the way, Avery makes magical friends, discovers her true power, and finds the strength to grant her one true wish—saving mum!
Title/Opportunity A Reasonable Excuse
Feature Contact Films NSW Writer/Director Bentley Dean Producers Martin Butler, Bentley Dean Documentary Development 2025 How far are you willing to go to protect this life?
Title/Opportunity Agata the Writer
Feature WHITEFALK FILMS & PRODUKTION PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD — Writer/Directors – Kuba Dorabialski. Producer – Alex White. Executive Producers – Lesleigh Jermanus, Chris Buchanan, Erik Black, Mia Wasikowska. Feature Film Production 2025 A satirical writer goes to Sarajevo to write a "serious" novel about the war, but finds herself tangled in self-doubt, an art theft, and the complexity of storytelling.
Title/Opportunity Arrernte Boxing: A Community’s Fight
Feature NORA & RED DOG PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD NT Director – Trisha Morton-Thomas. Writer/Producer – Bridget May. Executive Producers – Jason Lord, Shaun Miller. Producer Program 2025 Arrernte Boxing: A Community’s Fight follows Jason Lord, an Arrernte man whose boxing academy offers discipline, belonging, and hope to young people growing up in Central Australia. Through intimate observation and lived moments, the film reveals how routine, care, and community can change lives, keeping kids out of jail and giving them a future worth fighting for.
Title/Opportunity Ascent of the Last Colossus
Game DOBDOB PTY LTD NT Creative Director – Daniel Ferguson. Writer – Luther Wilson. Games Production Fund 2025 Ascent of the Last Colossus follows the story of a being sent from beyond the stars, tasked with freeing the last surviving colossus. What was once a world where all worshiped the colossi, is now a world where only one remains, being drained of its power to sustain a civilisation destined to fail.
Title/Opportunity Asian Girls
Feature Hyun Lee NSW Writer/Director Hyun Lee. Producers Matt Noonan, Georgia Noe. Narrative Content Development Funding 2025 Kim, a young ambitious Korean-Australian woman, receives a warning from a Korean shaman that she must ditch her career aspirations in order to become a shaman herself. Kim thinks the shaman is a fraud and refuses to believe in the paranormal even though ghosts terrorise her on a daily basis.