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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.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Expressions of Interest
Feature Portmanteau Pictures PTY LTD VIC Executive Producer – Chloé Brugalé, Shaun Miller. Writer/Director – Lara Thoms. Writer/Producer – Patrick McCabe Documentary Development 2026 In a rapidly gentrifying inner Melbourne suburb, eccentric artists survive through precarious work and elusive opportunities, while navigating their uneasy role in their neighbourhood’s transformation.
Title/Opportunity Extreme Animal Transport: Australia
Online Bree Davies WA Writer/Director/Producer – Bree Billington Documentary Development 2026 'Extreme Animal Transport: Australia' is a direct-to-audience documentary series following urgent animal transport stories across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Told in short, chaptered episodes, the series reveals the logistics, emotion, risk and human dedication behind moving animals safely through emergencies, relocations, rescues and complex journeys.
Title/Opportunity Hire ME!
Online STORY MILL STUDIOS PTY LTD NSW Director – Rowan Devereux, Sophie Saville. Producer – Holly Fraser. Writer – Madeleine Stewart Documentary Development 2026 Maddie is over Centrelink and is on a mission to get a job… but which one? She tries her hand at a range of careers, meets disabled trailblazers and realises that her disability is not the real barrier to employment after all.
Title/Opportunity Hunter: A Wonnarua Story
Feature Kawal Pictures Pty Ltd NSW Director – Bill Code. Producer – James Saunders. Writer – Scott Franks Documentary Development 2026 A story of the energy transition in Australia’s Hunter Valley, told through the eyes of a Wonnarua man who has spent his life in the shadow of the coal giants that have transformed this region.
Title/Opportunity Leigh Bowery: Eternal Sunshine
Feature BIG & LITTLE FILMS VIC Director – Ilinca Calugareanu. Producer – Ned Williams, Michael McMahon, Vee Shi. Writer/Producer – Elinor Hughes Documentary Development 2026 Leigh Bowery became a living artwork. Through newly discovered archive, family testimonies, and bold cinematic reimagining, the film searches for the artist behind the spectacle.
Title/Opportunity Man-Made
TV Film Camp VIC Producer – Philippa Campey, Madeleine Hetherton-Miau, Rebecca Barry, Chris Kamen. Writer – Tracey Spicer AM. Writer/Director – Poppy Stockell Documentary Development 2026 The bias of our past is being built into our future.
Title/Opportunity OCEAN EYES
Feature Float Films Pty Ltd VIC Producer – Molly O'Connor. Writer/Director/Producer – Eugenia Lim Documentary Development 2026 As land recedes and oceans rise, a dancer, a ship’s captain and a bird catcher weave stories of survival, migration and shared futures.
Title/Opportunity Probably Nothing*
TV Shipton House Pty Ltd VIC Director – Ben Lawrence. Producer – Gabriel Shipton Documentary Development 2026 Probably Nothing* follows YouTube duo Boy Boy as they investigate Australia's biggest political mystery: was the CIA behind the 1975 dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam? Armed with declassified documents, whistleblower testimony and burning political satire, the duo trace the intelligence web from Pine Gap to the White House.
Title/Opportunity Seriously Funny (WT)
Feature Genepool Productions Pty Ltd VIC Producer – Toni Malone. Writer/Director – Sonya Pemberton Documentary Development 2026 Seriously Funny follows an intense workshop where strangers carrying deep trauma confront their pain through the unlikely lens of stand-up comedy – while science tracks what happens next.
Title/Opportunity Shaun Micallef's Old
TV Lune Media Pty Ltd NSW Director/Producer – Olivia Hoopmann. Executive Producer – Leonie Lowe. Writer/Producer – David Galloway, Executive Producer/Writer – Shaun Micallef Documentary Development 2026 Shaun Micallef is getting old – as we all are – so he’s on a mission to discover how we can age well in Australia, and whether it’s time to re-consider our quest for the fountain of youth.
Title/Opportunity The Animal Sanctuary
TV The Sanctuary Series SPV Pty Ltd VIC Director – Claire Smith. Executive Producer – David Elliot-Jones, Dan Lake. Producer – Fraser Johnston Documentary Development 2026 The Animal Sanctuary is an unscripted observational series set at Tasmania’s Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, capturing its mission to rescue, rehabilitate and release endangered wildlife. Through urgent rescues and intimate behind-the-scenes access, the series follows the people and community working together to protect animals found nowhere else in the world.
Title/Opportunity The Dig
TV Closer Stories Pty Ltd SA Producer – Rebecca Summerton. Writer/Director – Matthew Bate Documentary Development 2026 In a city branded the “Serial Killer Capital of the World,” two citizen-led hunts to solve Australia’s most infamous missing-children cases spiral into obsession, spectacle, and ritual – revealing how a mystery that never ends exposes far more about the living than the dead.
Title/Opportunity The Fast Lane
Feature In Films QLD Executive Producer – Cate Shortland. Producer – Ivan O'Mahoney. Writer/Director – Tony Krawitz Documentary Development 2026 The untold story of Australia's 1980s boycott of the Moscow Olympics, one Australian swimmer who won gold regardless, and the price she paid for her defiance.