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 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.

Please note the below is not an exhaustive list of all funding provided. More information can be found in the Resource Library. For funding provided 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 After the Wedding
Feature GITTOES FILMS PTY LTD NSW Director – George Gittoes. Producer – Hellen Rose Documentary Development 2026 After a wedding in Jalalabad two young men head out on separate quests. Zabi, the groom will help hunt down ISIS terrorists and Steel, his gangster friend will search to find his fianceé, Shazia who has been sold into prostitution.
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 Apartment
TV NEVER TOO SMALL PTY LTD VIC Director – Colin Chee. Executive Producer – James McPherson. Producer – Olive Bilic. Writer – Elizabeth Price. Writer/Producer – Luke Clark Documentary Development 2026 By 2050, 70% of us will live in cities. But that’s not a threat. It’s a design challenge. Apartment uncovers the forgotten story of high-density living, from 12th-century China to right here at home. These buildings have shaped who we are and hold the clues to build a better future.
Title/Opportunity Australia's Lost Eden
TV SOUTHERN WILD FILMS PTY LTD TAS Director/Producer – Nick Hayward, Matt Hamilton Documentary Production 2026 In a lost wilderness, a young devil faces the challenges of growing up in a changing world.
Title/Opportunity Bedtime Stories
Game LIQUID HEART PTY LTD VIC Art Director – Fitriani Revanda. CEO / MD / Founder – Kevin Luk Games Production Fund 2026 Bedtime Stories is a casual 2D platformer with fun, forgiving combat inspired by Cantonese and Indonesian Folklores.
Title/Opportunity Big Water
TV Wedge-Tail Pictures NSW Director/Producer – Bill Code. Producer – Lee Constable, Mat Cornwell Documentary Development 2026 A former farm kid – and climate researcher – explores the looming freshwater crisis in this fresh documentary single, serialized for social media.
Title/Opportunity Bluedo
Game Blythe Enterprises VIC 2D Artist – Jasmine Steer. Art Director – Chantel Eagle. CEO / MD / Founder – Elizabeth Blythe. Designer – Jack Sinclair. Lead Programmer – Adam Matthews. UX Designer – James Camilleri. Writer – Karly Uusimma Games Production Fund 2026 You are a newly awakened vampire in a modern paranormal city searching for your sire.
Title/Opportunity Bondi
TV MINT PICTURES PTY LTD NSW Director – Amanda Blue. Executive Producer – Craig Graham. Producer – Dan Goldberg, Bev Shroot Documentary Production 2026 Told by those who were there and to be aired on the first anniversary of the Hannukah massacre, Bondi is the shocking story of that fateful day and the rise of anti-Semitism that led to the shredding of our social cohesion.
Title/Opportunity Bondi
TV MINT PICTURES PTY LTD NSW Director – Amanda Blue. Executive Producer – Craig Graham. Producer – Dan Goldberg, Bev Shroot Documentary Development 2026 On the first anniversary of the Hannukah massacre, Bondi is the shocking story of that fateful day – and how the rise of anti-Semitism shredded our social cohesion.
Title/Opportunity Brine Pool
Game Quinn Franks VIC Composer – William Palazzo. Creative Director – Quinn Franks Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 A surreal comedy of delusion follows a cast of bizarre creatures in the desolate wastelands of Brine Pool.
Title/Opportunity BURN IT ALL DOWN
Game NEWFORGE ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD WA Composer – Braden Ross. Concept Artist – Hendricus Van Der Heyden. Solo Developer – Lewis Bebbington. Translation / Localisation – Thomas Waite, Kevin Luo. Voice Artist – Dimitar Kolev, Jasmine Chambers. Website Developer – Aron Jakob Games Production Fund 2026 Sneak around and Burn it all Down! Free the people of New London from the oppressive grip of the Puppet Master in this Orwellian-inspired VR immersive sim.
Title/Opportunity Buru and The Old People
Game ELFCAT STUDIO PTY LTD NSW 2D Artist – Letoya Muraru, Tessa Rose Morecroft. Composer – Alexander Tulett. Creative Director – Benjamin Armstrong. Developer – Natthan Sharpe. Environment Artist – Emma Sjaan Beukers. Marketing Manager – Amy Potter-Jarman. Producer – Brooke Collard. UX Designer – Lucy Mutimer Games Production Fund 2026 A narrative-driven adventure game set in a vibrant anthropomorphic world, rich in Indigenous storytelling.
Title/Opportunity Chasing Silence
Online Urban Ripples Pty Ltd NSW Writer/Director/Producer – Tim Elwin Documentary Development 2026 Across Australia, teenagers are turning to eating disorders, self-harm, and silence as addictive relief from their inner turmoil. This raw, unfiltered documentary asks every parent, if your child was suffering, would you recognise the signs?
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 Criminauts
Game EXAERE SOFTWARE PTY LTD SA Composer – Haysan Morris. Developer – Axel Hoffmann. Programmer – Tony Ngo Games Production Fund 2026 Criminauts is a co-op sci-fi action game where players must build, maintain, and pilot a spaceship to survive in a hostile universe.
Title/Opportunity Deathspiral
Game Endless River PTY LTD QLD Designer – Nicholas Thandi. Technical Artist – Ethan Noble Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Struggle to survive a hostile and surreal world, where every encounter asks you to risk it all on your path to finding The Gilded Door.
Title/Opportunity Discovering Sambha
Feature Asia Pacific Pictures Pty Ltd NSW Producer – Vinati Makijany, Emmanuel Pappas. Writer/Director/Producer – Manjari Makijany Documentary Development 2026 Millions remember Mac Mohan as the iconic villain Sambha. His daughter remembers her father. When forgotten stories begin to surface years after his death, she embarks on a cinematic search to reconcile the public myth with the private man, uncovering as much about herself as she does him.
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 Elsie: We Will Not be Beaten
Feature Pursekey Productions NSW Director – Zanny Begg. Producer – Michaela Perske Documentary Development 2026 Elsie explores the origin story of Australia's first refuge for women and it's place in shaping attitudes to domestic violence.
Title/Opportunity Estranged
Feature No Thing Productions WA Producer – Brooke Silcox, Rebecca Barry, Michael Collins. Writer/Director – Olivia Martin-McGuire Documentary Production 2026 A filmmaker and her trans sibling look to rebuild their relationship by learning what family really means – and who gets to decide.