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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Duck Duck Goose
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TV | Mad Ones Films Pty Ltd | NSW | Creator/Writer Elias Jamieson Brown. Producers Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan. Writer Melissa Lee Speyer, Tommy Murphy. Script Editor Tommy Murphy. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Acclaimed author Jeremiah returns to his hometown to write about a schoolmate accused of a vicious crime: Prince Wesson. When Prince unexpectedly dies, Jeremiah ingratiates himself with the Wesson family looking for answers – but is unwittingly drawn into a dangerous game. |
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Dungeon Pizza
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Game | Louis Van Dyke T/A Growing Games | QLD | Illustrator / Concept Artist Elly-Rose Burrowes. Programmer / Producer Louis Van Dyke. Animator / Illustrator Maggie Buckley. Game Designer / Composer / Sound Designer Oscar Jemmott. Concept Artist Sam Davis | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | A cooking game with a fantasy twist! Knead the dough, spread the sauce, and prepare… the rat chunks?! Open your own pizzeria deep inside a dungeon, serving weary adventurers who come to rest and refuel between their quests and bounties. |
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DURESS
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TV | King of Dirk Films | VIC | Writer Paul Baiguerra. Producers Jim Wright, Elise Trenodern. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | To save his failing construction business a volunteer firefighter steals drugs and money from a crash scene. Plunged into an unfamiliar and dangerous world he is offered protection by a Mafia family who see his business as a useful front – and the reason to keep him alive. |
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EKA
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Feature | Asia Pacific Pictures Pty Ltd | NSW | Writer/Director – Suman Sen. Producers – Emmanuel Pappas, Manjari Makijany, Alan McAlex. | Feature Film Production | 2025 | In a decaying city, a weary clerk’s silent protest against a towering monument ignites a mass uprising, forcing him to confront buried guilt and seek redemption. |
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Title/Opportunity
Elemental Merchant
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Game | Zaapp Games | NT | CEO / MD / Founder Jericho Diputado | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | Traverse anomalous dungeons filled with elemental creatures. Loot, craft, and trade your spoils – all to fulfill your cosmic quest. |
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Empire In Colour
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TV | EIC SPV PTY LTD | NSW | Directors – John Harvey, Ernest Webb. Producers – Jo-anne McGowan, Catherine Bainbridge. Executive Producers – Jennifer Peedom, Sarah Noonan. | Documentary Production | 2025 | Empire In Colour is a four-part series using newly colourised archival footage to explore the lasting impact of the British Empire and prompt an honest reckoning with its legacy. |
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Title/Opportunity
Every Version of You
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Feature | Goalpost Pictures Australia Pty Ltd | NSW | Director Corrie Chen. Writer Penelope Chai. Producers Kylie du Fresne, Adam Fratto. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | In a climate-ravaged near-future Melbourne, TAO-YI must choose between staying in the depleted real world and joining NAVIN, the man she loves, in a thriving virtual world – knowing that the choice she makes will be forever. Based on the award winning novel Every Version of You. |
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Favourites
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Feature | Tandem Media Pty Ltd & Third Man Films Pty Ltd | VIC | Director Nick Russell. Writers Nick Russell, Nick Musgrove. Producers Nick Russell, Nick Musgrove, Robert Coe. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | When their ‘perfect’ summer holiday turns deadly, two parents face an impossible choice: which of their two children to save. When Keith chooses too quickly, and both children survive, the fallout pushes his family and marriage to breaking point. |
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Fireworks
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Feature | Frankendipity Enterprises Pty Ltd | NSW | Director Ali Vaziri. Writers Nick Bleszynski, Ali Vaziri. Producer Yolandi Franken. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | As they build new lives in Australia, lifelong friends Saman and Babak are forced to confront demons from their past after an engagement celebration reveals a disturbing connection to their traumatic detention by secret police in Iran, testing their limits of loyalty, friendship, and sense of justice. |
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Foe
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Game | HYPER FOE STUDIOS PTY LTD | NSW | Artist/Narrative Designer – Sarah Harper. Producer – Debbie Steer. Designer/Animator – Tom Barkel. Programmer/Composer Andrew Quizon. Animators – Richard Chhoa, Christian Barkel. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | When a low level Foe learns he's destined to fall at the hands of a prophesied hero, he embarks on a destructive and chaotic rampage to defy his destiny. Foe is a fast paced 2D/3D side-scroller hack and slash set in a dark fantasy world on the brink of destruction. |
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Foodomina
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Game | Lumelli Studios Pty Ltd | — | Creative Director Irini Melas. Lead Programmer John Engstrom. Composer Callum Lee Gow. Sound Designer Isabella Verduci. Narrative Designer William Hinz. | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | Foodomina is a Story Rich Food vs Mould themed RPG, where you play as personified Food Girls in their cosmic battle against Mould People. But Mold People used to be Food People… maybe there's another way? |
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FOR NOW
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Feature | Causeway Works Pty Ltd | NSW | Director – Samuel Van Grinsven. Writers – Samuel Van Grinsven, Jory Anast. Producers – Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton. | Feature Film Production | 2025 | As their reckless twenties come to a close, three friends redefine the boundaries of their intimacy and in doing so fall into intoxicating yet uncharted territory, which risks unravelling their bond entirely. |
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Fortitude Valley
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TV | SEVENTY SEVEN SERIES ONE PTY LTD | QLD | Director – Sian Davies. Writers – Stephen Irwin, Leigh McGrath, Hunter Page-Lochard. Producer – Andy Walker. Executive Producers – Stephen Irwin, Leigh McGrath, Hunter Page-Lochard, Greg Sitch. | General Television Drama Production | 2025 | Ethan Tobane, a straight-arrow Queensland cop, discovers that his father, a detective whom Ethan idolised, was not the man Ethan believes. As Ethan digs deeper, he is drawn into a dangerous web of lies and murder dating back forty years that will put his career, his family, and his life in growing peril. |
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Title/Opportunity
Friends for Life
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Feature | Melodrama Pictures Pty Ltd | VIC | Writer/Director Nicky Lianos. Producer Melanie Coombs. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | When two overlooked aging women meet in the 80’s at an LA gym and turn serial killing into their own retirement plan, they are finally seen for all the wrong reasons. |
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Title/Opportunity
Frostliner
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Game | GANEDEV STUDIO PTY LTD | WA | Lead Artist – Josiah Ward. Lead Programmer – Elizabeth Haynes. Lead Developer – Nathan Gane. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost. |
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Grove Keeper
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Game | Steep Summit Studios | NSW | Technical Director – Brendan Votano. Creative Director – Billy Green. 3D Artist – Skylar Judd. Animator – Willow Kable. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | In this Dark-Fantasy, RTS game, you play the role of a Forest Deity protecting your Grove against an onslaught of loggers, poachers and warriors. Use your powers to grow trees, summon guardians, set traps, and employ magic to defend, and eventually conquer your human oppressors. |
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Hafekasi
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Feature | Annelise Hickey | VIC | Writer/Director Annelise Hickey. Producers Annelise Hickey, Josie Baynes. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | When a childhood misunderstanding drives a wedge between her and her Tongan roots, a young woman must confront the shame of her past in order to find her place in a world divided. |
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Happily Ever…
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TV | Lantern Pictures Productions Pty Ltd | NSW | Writers Sarah Lambert, Yolanda Ramke, Clare Atkins, Jane Manning. Producer Sarah Lambert. Executive Producer Sarah Lambert | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Audrey’s idyllic life shatters when her abusive ex returns with Elodie, her identical double. But Elodie isn’t a twin—she’s Audrey’s clone, designed to be everything Audrey isn’t. A tense psychological thriller, HAPPILY EVER… explores how technology extends coercive control, when even your DNA is no longer your own. |
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Help Me!
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TV | LANTERN PICTURES PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD | NSW | Writers – Sarah Lambert, Kirsty Fisher, Kim Wilson, Heidi Arena. Producers – Sarah Lambert, Bree-Anne Sykes. Executive Producers – Carly Heaton, Andrew Lambert, Jane Manning. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | After 20 years away from Australia, struggling journalist Katherine is forced to team up with her recently widowed mother Barb to unravel a complex criminal enterprise. |
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HOLD ME
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Feature | RED LAMP FILMS PTY LTD | NSW | Writer/Director – Kim Mordaunt | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Ange has been living as a recluse on an estuary, but when her estranged teenage daughter comes to stay and a mysterious giant deep-sea creature appears, the dark secrets of her community begin to unravel. |