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| Title/Opportunity | Platform | Recipient | State/Territory | Key Creatives | Funding Program | Year | Description |
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Homeless 300
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TV | SMASHING FILMS PTY LTD | WA | Director – Anthony Barwell. Writers – Anthony Barwell, Matthew O’Donnell. Producer – Matthew O’Donnell. Executive Producers – Daniel Brown, Sophie Meyrick. | Documentary Production | 2025 | Every day close to 300 Australians are turned away from Homeless services. One of Australia’s most beloved personalities is on a mission to help them. |
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Hot Mother
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Feature | CARVER FILMS PTY LTD | VIC | Writer/Director – Lucy Knox. Producers – Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish. Executive Producer – Toni Collette. | Feature Film Production | 2025 | In an attempt to reconnect, a mother and daughter visit a remote wellness spa for the weekend, but their time together quickly turns into a physical and psychological fight for survival when they get trapped in a sauna where no one can hear their cries for help. |
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Howzat! The Story of Sherbet
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Feature | BEYOND PRODUCTIONS | — | Director – Paul Clarke. Writers – Paul Clarke, Angela Downing. Producer – Angela Downing. Executive Producer – Mikael Borglund. | Documentary Production | 2025 | One worldwide hit, inches away from international superstardom, Sherbet are probably our greatest ever pop band. 'Howzat! The Story of Sherbet' chronicles the rise and fall of Sherbet, on the 50th anniversary of their #1 hit ‘Howzat!’ |
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Huedini
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Game | JUICEGOOSE GAMES PTY LTD | VIC | Artist, Animator, Programmer – Joshua Cornell Sound Designer – Maize Wallin. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | Huedini is a COLOUR-MATCHING action roguelike where the player swaps hues to absorb enemies, cast spells, and survive chaotic bullet hell encounters. |
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If/Then
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TV | Chloe Taylor | NSW | Director Chloe Taylor. Writers/Producers Chloe Taylor, Diana Ward. | Documentary Development | 2025 | Can a single technological advancement continue to transform our understanding of reproduction, time, and human potential? Egg freezing pioneer Dr. Debra Gook faces retirement as women using her technology navigate questions of legacy, choice, and expectations in contemporary society. |
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In Love and War
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Game | 3AM Sunset Pty Ltd | — | Lead Artist Emmie Jewel. Lead Programmer Fallou Sokhna. Creative Director Peter Botev | Emerging Gamemakers Fund | 2025 | In Love and War is a narrative chess game where your tutorial guide is working against you, and winning means learning when to stop following the rules. |
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In the Reeds by the Lake
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TV | Briohny Doyle | NSW | Writer – Kim Wilson, Nayuka Gorrie, Briohny Doyle | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Baby Robbie Cormac is brutally abandoned in the reeds by Shorehaven's dried-up lake. The wealthy Cormac family blame his traumatized mother, Emma, and her bad blood. Aftershocks experienced twenty-five years into the future force three generations to reckon with the cost of progress and denial in the 'lucky country'. |
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In The Weeds
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TV | Rhapsody Films Pty Ltd | QLD | Writers Ainslie Clouston, Christine Bartlett, Nicholas Brown. Producers Ainslie Clouston, Alice Willison. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | A private chef rebuilds her life while catering to opulent clients whose lives are just as messy as hers. |
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Title/Opportunity
It's Probably Nothing!
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Feature | Hannah Lehmann | NSW | Writer/Director – Hannah Lehmann | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | After a night out, Sophie just wants to get from her car to her house, but something in the dark won’t let her. It’s probably nothing… but like every woman walking home alone, she can’t afford to be wrong. |
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Jonesy
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Feature | SCULLFACE PTY LTD | WA | Writer/Director – Aaron McCann. Producers – Michael Facey, Kristian Moliere. Executive Producers – Grant Hardie, Phil Hunt, Ian Kirk. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | Elliott, an unemployed dreamer, manipulated by his fiancé’s telepathic and murderous cat, spirals into chaos when a simple bird-napping scheme turns into a deadly plot against his future in-laws. |
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Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar
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Feature | Macgowan Films Pty Ltd | NSW | Director Matt Moore. Producers Sam Radclyffe, Marian Macgowan, Sarah Radclyffe. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Julian's got small-screenability, his mother tells him. Not everyone shares Julian's dreams of stardom.Too much like hairdressing for his father's tastes. A Tasmanian man wants a son for sporting purposes. 'Boys like Dinky Toys' he tells Julian. 'Not this boy, thinks Julian, who knows better than to tell the truth. |
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Title/Opportunity
Juniper
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TV | Nicholas Verso | VIC | Director/Producer Nicholas Verso. Writers Nicholas Verso, Kodie Bedford, Marieke Hardy, Penelope Chai | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Think of a key moment in life where you were at a crossroads. You had only two options. And ever since you’ve wondered what would have happened if you made the other choice. Now imagine you could go back and take the path you didn’t take. Would you do it? |
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Keepers
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TV | Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd | NSW | Director Guy Edmonds. Writers Guy Edmonds, Michelle Law, Keir Wilkins. Producers Ian Collie, Rob Gibson. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | After years of illness, 16-year-old Sailor moves to the remote alpine town of Sanctuary – where her strength begins to return just as a local teen vanishes. As her body heals, she uncovers a terrifying truth: her recovery might come at the cost of someone else’s life. |
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Title/Opportunity
Kingdom Come
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Feature | Simpatico Films | — | Writer/Director/Producer – Charles Williams | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Against the backdrop of America’s social fracturing in 1980, a broken family and a radicalized father plot a spectacular act of violence – building the largest and most elaborate bomb in US history. But the true collapse is happening from within. Based on the true story of Harvey’s Casino bombing. |
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Title/Opportunity
Kinky History: Comes Alive
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Online | James Edu-Tainment | VIC | Writer/Director Dr Esme James, Connor Fantasia-Serve Producers Dr Susan James, Dr Esme James | Documentary Development | 2025 | History gets hot, hilarious, and highly theatrical in this camp comedy series that brings the wildest stories of sex and sexuality to life. |
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Title/Opportunity
LIAR BIRD
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Feature | Thomas Wallis | NSW | Writer/Producer Thomas Wallis. Script Editor Charlotte Macleod. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | As graduation nears, a promising student at Australia’s top drama school is forced to explore her dark side to ensure the spotlight lands on her. |
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Title/Opportunity
Little J & Big Cuz Series 5
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TV | OLD DOG PICTURES 5 PTY LTD | NSW | Director – Tony Thorne. Writers – Dot West, Erica Glynn, Kimberley Benjamin, Gary Hamaguchi, Adam Thompson, Shontell Ketchell, Declan Furber Gillick, Kartanya Maynard. Producers – Jodie Bell, Ned Lander. | Narrative Content Production Funding | 2025 | Little kids, big adventures. |
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Little Ruin
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Game | Lucernal Pty Ltd | VIC | Creative Directors – Mark Fenollar, Fiona Johnson. Lead Programmer – Ben Rolfe. Graphic Designer – Maria Montes. Composers – Ken Murray, Nick Batterham. Character Artist – Anna Tutova. Programmer – Max Cahill. Sound Designer John Kassab. Concept Artist – Pavel Elagin. Consultants – Rob- ert Reid, Ben McKenzie, Meredith Hall, Rufus Kubica. | Games Production Fund | 2025 | Little Ruin is a story about growing up, difficult choices, and belonging. |
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Title/Opportunity
Love From Wish & Co
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Feature | Midwinter Entertainment PTY LTD | NSW | Writer/Producer Lisa Hoppe. Producer Abi Tabone. | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | Love and second chances are at the heart of this uplifting film about two couples in strife after a tiny mistake has huge consequences for their relationships. |
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Magnetic
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Feature | Domino Crescent Productions Pty Ltd | NSW | Writer/Director/Producer – Kacie Anning | Narrative Content Development Funding | 2025 | When her family falls prey to a magnet-obsessed conspiracy theorist, lone daughter Penny will fight to save her family from his unreality – only to learn the magnetic pull of mothers and sons is a more dangerous force than any grifter. |
