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 content 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. 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.
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— Hyun Lee NSW — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Manjari Makijany NSW — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Luke Eve VIC — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Anoop Lokkur VIC — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Sophie Sommerville VIC — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Talia Zucker and Will Howarth NSW — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— Harry Lloyd VIC — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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— James Vaughan NSW — AISF and Screen Australia Virtual Sessions 2026 —
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.