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.
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| Title/Opportunity | Platform | Recipient | State/Territory | Key Creatives | Funding Program | Year | Description |
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Atomic Love
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Feature | Imogen McCluskey | NSW | Writer/Director/Producer – Imogen McCluskey | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | In 1983, a love-obsessed insurance clerk decides to apply her own brand of risk assessment to the dating world, promising algorithmically optimized matches through Australia’s first video dating service. But she soon finds that sometimes the best matches are the riskiest bets. |
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Atomic Paradise
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Feature | SAM CONTENT PTY LTD | NSW | Writer/Director – John Harvey. Producers – Sally Aitken, John Harvey. Executive Producer – Aline Jacques. | Documentary Production | 2025 | Atomic Paradise is a bold and unflinching feature documentary reclaiming the Pacific’s nuclear testing history through a global First Nations lens – a cinematic experience, fusing iconic archival footage with searing firsthand testimony, the film exposes one of humanity’s most reckless experiments – and reframes it in a new and prophetic light. |
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Austin – Season 3
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TV | NORTHERN PICTURES PTY LTD | NSW | Directors – Darren Ashton, Erin White. Writers – Emma Jane Unsworth, Adam Zwar, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Erica Harrison. Producer – Joe Weatherstone. Executive Producer – Matthew Vitins. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | As Austin and Haley hurtle toward their wedding, clashing families and last-minute doubts threaten to turn “I do” into “Do I?” Amid Julian and Ingrids pending divorce, family chaos and compromise, all four must ask: does anyone really know how to make marriage work? |
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AUSTR-ASIAN
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TV | 13TH STREET PTY LTD | QLD | Director – Sian Fleming, Joel Stephen Fleming. Writer/Producers – Shuang Hu, Sian Fleming, Joel Stephen Fleming. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | Mei, 30, attempts to integrate her new American boyfriend, Simon, into her quirky “Austr-Asian” family as they embrace the challenge of impending parenthood. |
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Title/Opportunity
Bit School
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TV | BIT SCHOOL PRODUCTION PTY LTD | VIC | Directors – Justin Villar, Josh Hackett. Writers – Justin Villar, Josh Hackett, Millie Holten. Producers – Doug McNeil, Max Kearsley. Executive Producer – Jane Liscombe. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | A new girl starts at a high school where every awkward moment spirals into surreal, action-packed, VFX-fuelled chaos. Bit School is a bold, high-octane comedy blending teenage cringe with explosive energy. |
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Title/Opportunity
Broken Bones
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Game | Hamish Lockwood | VIC | Creative Director Hamish Lockwood. Technical Director Josué Candela. | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | An atmospheric retro-style 3D platformer. Break and recombine your skeleton to solve thoughtful puzzles and guide other souls through the afterlife. |
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Chasing Fairytales
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TV | Five Storey Films | QLD | Writer/Director Anna Jeffries. Producer Jenine Olliver, Rebecca McElroy, Emma Sargent, Anna Jeffries. Executive Producer Ivan O'Mahoney | Documentary Development | 2025 | Royal Bridesmaid Amber Petty tracks down the Canadian conwoman who elaborately scammed a bunch of Australian and Canadian media personalities nearly 20 years ago. Amber is determined to stop the career conwoman, who is now manipulating far more vulnerable people. |
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Title/Opportunity
Cloudlings
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Game | Middle Space Games | QLD | Lead Artist Ben Fowler. Lead Programmer Harrison Stitt. Composer Jordan Stitt. | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | Build, explore, and shape your sky island, while uncovering the strange secrets of the Cloudlings |
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Title/Opportunity
Club Rat
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Game | The Sequence Group Pty Ltd | VIC | Creative Director Ptolemy Culvenor. Art Director Luke Bicevskis. Producer Charlotte Galvin. Consultant Cherie Davidson. | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | Club Rat is a 2.5D soulslike where you play as a piece of toilet graffiti on an adventure through the walls and stickers of a multi-floor nightclub. |
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Title/Opportunity
Counting Cards With My Father
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Feature | Arenamedia | VIC | Producer – Kate Laurie. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Sick of bouncing around from home to home, a misfit teen tracks down their estranged father hoping to rebuild their relationship through poker. |
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Crime Casters
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Feature | Haven't You Done Well Productions Pty Ltd | VIC | Director – Max Miller. Writer – Scott Limbrick. Producers – Austin Hayden, Max Miller, Monique Mulcahy. Executive Producers – Georgia Mappin, Craig Deeker, Spencer McLaren. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | Claire is a frustrated young journalist whose scheme to produce a true-crime podcast in a small Australian town is derailed when she witnesses a policeman dumping a body. Pulled into a world of conspiracies, dead podcasters, and billionaires, she faces bizarre challenges – all while managing a perfectionist audio engineer. |
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Crossing the Tideline
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Feature | Regen Studios Pty Ltd | VIC | Director Andrew Kaineder. Writers Damon Gameau, Brett Burcher, Andrew Kaineder. Producers Anna Kaplan, Andrew Kaineder. Executive Producers Damon Gameau, Brett Burcher. | Documentary Development | 2025 | After surviving a Great White Shark attack a former pro-surfer’s lifelong bond with the ocean is severed and his identity fractured, forcing him to navigate personal trauma and collective fear as he struggles to rebuild trust in the ocean and renegotiate his relationship with risk. |
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Cyberpedia
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Game | Christopher George Erickson | VIC | Lead Design – Chris Erickson. Sound Designer – Callum Tham | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | Cyberpedia is a retro point-and-click puzzle game where you explore a long forgotten virtual museum built on the 90s internet. Booting this game up 30 years later, you must restore exhibits to their former glory as you work to undo the damage done by AI. |
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Title/Opportunity
Dance For Your Life
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Feature | Dance Documentary Pty Ltd | NSW | Writer/Director – Luke Cornish. Producer – Jade Barnes. Executive Producer – David Alrich. | Producer Program | 2025 | Following a group of Australian dancers as they travel to London for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join a visionary new international dance company by world-renowned choreographer Dean Lee. |
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Title/Opportunity
Day Job
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TV | Strange Mage | VIC | Writer/Director Paul Geaorghiou. Producer Monique Mulcahy. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | An animated comedy about the over-qualified staff at a local bowling alley, and their struggles balancing career dreams and reality. |
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Dead Quiet
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Feature | Whitefalk Films Pty Ltd | NSW | Writer/Director Thomas Charles Hyland. Producer Alex White. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Blinded by a burning need for justice, two siblings set out on a treacherous journey to confront the man who ruined their lives. |
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Title/Opportunity
Decaying Salvage
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Game | STASIS BOOTH GAMES PTY LTD | VIC | CEO / MD / Founder – Andrew Thackray. Composer – Lynden Woodiwiss. Business Development – Vee Pendergrast. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | Scavenge parts from derelict ships, solve puzzles and encounter a variety of unique enemies in this single player, fixed camera sci-fi horror game! |
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Delverium
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Game | SAGESTONE GAMES PTY LTD | QLD | Primary Developer (Design, Programming, Art) – Scott Lowther. Producer – Charlotte Lowther. Audio Director – Jeff van Dyck. Programmer – Mark Taylor. 2D Artist – Angus Coolan. Community Manager – Zanthia Lowther. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | Delverium is a survival sandbox fantasy adventure for up to 8 players blending exploration, farming, crafting, settlement building, and dungeon crawling in a vast procedurally-generated world. Players can gather resources, build shelters, tend crops, recruit NPCs, and venture into dangerous dungeons as they explore the land and uncover a deeper secret. |
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Dogs To The Rescue (WT)
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TV | The Purpose Connector Pty Ltd | NSW | Director Mandy Lake. Writers Mandy Lake, Lara Van Ahlefeldt. Producer Lara von Ahlefeldt. Executive Producer Simon Nasht. | Documentary Development | 2025 | Rescue Dogs (WT) follows a remarkable team of "rescued" dogs turned elite wildlife detection agents, leading a cutting-edge, all female conservation team in their efforts to save koalas and Australia's endangered species from extinction. |
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Drawing Dead
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Game | LEVI PAUL GOESSLING | SA | 2D Artist – Maxwell Arch. Solo Developer – Levi Goessling | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | His Unholiness the Devil cordially invites you to a game of cards. In Drawing Dead, harness the power of demons and engineer your deck into an infernal scoring machine. |
