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 funding approvals across programs and initiatives – showcasing the diversity of Australian stories and the creative teams bringing them to life.

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Please note the below is not an exhaustive list of all funding provided. More information can be found in the Resource Library. For funding provided prior to 1 July 2025, please review our Annual Reports here.

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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 Australia's Lost Eden
TV SOUTHERN WILD FILMS PTY LTD TAS Director/Producer – Nick Hayward, Matt Hamilton Documentary Production 2026 In a lost wilderness, a young devil faces the challenges of growing up in a changing world.
Title/Opportunity Bondi
TV MINT PICTURES PTY LTD NSW Director – Amanda Blue. Executive Producer – Craig Graham. Producer – Dan Goldberg, Bev Shroot Documentary Production 2026 Told by those who were there and to be aired on the first anniversary of the Hannukah massacre, Bondi is the shocking story of that fateful day and the rise of anti-Semitism that led to the shredding of our social cohesion.
Title/Opportunity Estranged
Feature No Thing Productions WA Producer – Brooke Silcox, Rebecca Barry, Michael Collins. Writer/Director – Olivia Martin-McGuire Documentary Production 2026 A filmmaker and her trans sibling look to rebuild their relationship by learning what family really means – and who gets to decide.
Title/Opportunity Hell Has No Fire Escape
Feature Closer Stories Pty Ltd SA Director – Georgina Savage. Director/Producer – Matthew Bate. Producer – Rebecca Summerton, Sorcha Bacon Documentary Production 2026 Inheriting her husband’s evangelical rehab in South Africa’s Karoo, Pastor Ina Dry clings to faith – until an online romance with a man posing as Jason Momoa awakens desires that threaten her ministry. Her spiral begins to mirror the filmmaker documenting her, exposing how love, fantasy and belief collide in a failing nation.
Title/Opportunity It's Not About The Food
Feature Film Tomorrow VIC Producer – Rachael Morrow, Helen Leake. Writer/Director/Producer – Jason Christou Documentary Production 2026 A father’s quest to reckon with the eating disorder that took away his teen years, uncovers a worldwide crisis in men’s health, and finds a community of survivors breaking the silence to ensure the next generation of boys can learn to love the skin they’re in, before it’s too late.
Title/Opportunity My City, My Backyard
Online MY CITY MY BACK YARD PRODUCTION CO PTY LTD VIC Director – Rhys Graham. Executive Producer – Colin Chee, James McPherson. Producer – Luke Clark, Olive Bilic, Lindsay Barnard, Jordan Barrett Documentary Production 2026 My City, My Backyard reveals the real city that lives underneath the glossy version we all know. Led by an inspiring local architect, artist or designer, who takes us under their wing, introducing us to the people and places that make up the unique community they love.
Title/Opportunity Primary School
Feature PRIMARY SCHOOL SPV PTY LTD VIC Producer – Lola Nankervis. Writer/Director/Producer – Sue Thomson. Writer/Producer – Adam Farrington-Williams Documentary Production 2026 Heartfelt and unflinchingly real, PRIMARY SCHOOL is a story of public education that follows the staff and students of St Kilda Primary.
Title/Opportunity Saving Tuvalu
Feature MEDIA STOCKADE TWO PTY LTD NSW Director – Bernard ‘Kato’ Ewekia. Director/Producer – Kate Blackmore, Amelia Tovey. Executive Producer – Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton-Miau. Producer – Chris Kamen Documentary Production 2026 As Tuvalu disappears beneath rising seas, an urgent effort begins to turn it into the world’s first digital nation; where cultural artefacts, landscapes and ancestral stories are preserved for future generations. But can the digital world save what the ocean may erase?
Title/Opportunity Scaling Oz
TV Breakout Sharks Pty Ltd SA Executive Producer – Colin Thrupp. Producer – Lana Thrupp Documentary Production 2026 Scaling Oz explores the misconceptions surrounding Australia’s reptiles to reveal them as clever, caring, and incredible survivors.
Title/Opportunity Secret DNA of Us Series 2
TV EUREKA PRODUCTION SERVICES PTY LTD NSW Director – Tinzar Lwyn. Executive Producer – Debbie Cuell. Producer – Sonya Wilkes, Bev Shroot, Marissa McDowell Documentary Production 2026 Host Marc Fennell, along with Rae Johnston and Brad Argent, hit the road again to bring mass DNA testing to six more Australian towns. They will solve more family mysteries, find more unknown ancestors, and reveal more surprising ethnicities, as they uncover Australian history as we’ve never seen before
Title/Opportunity Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration
Feature DEFIANT LIVES PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD VIC Producer – Liz Burke. Writer/Director/Producer – Sarah Barton Documentary Production 2026 Fabulous and funny, Stella Young was a disability activist, comedian and broadcaster. This documentary traces how her unique Australian wit carried her from a small Australian town to the verge of international stardom, before she died at the age of 32.
Title/Opportunity Sweat it Out!
Feature SWEAT IT OUT PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD VIC Director – Mark Hartley. Producer – Cathy Rodda, Craig Griffin Documentary Production 2026 Sweat it Out! tells the story of how Australian rock music grew from a larrikin attitude and the dedication of bands that toured longer, drove further and played harder to be heard.
Title/Opportunity The Brain Garden
Feature STORYLAND PTY LTD QLD Executive Producer – Sonya Pemberton. Producer – Cathy Rodda. Writer/Director/Producer – Randall Wood Documentary Production 2026 After a catastrophic brain injury, award-winning filmmaker Randall Wood turns the camera on himself, embarking on a global journey to investigate a provocative question: Is nature’s power to heal the brain measurable science – or simply a compelling myth?
Title/Opportunity The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
Feature ARVOFILMS PTY LTD NSW Director – Sara Ehrlich. Executive Producer – Ian Sutherland. Producer – Steven Pasvolsky, Claire Pasvolsky Documentary Production 2026 Based on the best-selling book The Girl Who Fell From The Sky and author Emma Carey’s attempt to walk the New York City Marathon where 'her race' becomes the ‘live crucible’ to retrace the skydiving accident that nearly killed her and the extraordinary life she rebuilt in its wake.
Title/Opportunity The Happiest Man on Earth
Feature THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH PTY LTD NSW Executive Producer – Josh Pomeranz, Ori Eisen. Producer – Tim Maddocks. Writer/Director/Producer – Rami Fischler. Writer/Producer – Molly Reynolds Documentary Production 2026 Based on the NY Times bestseller, The Happiest Man on Earth is a feature documentary that explores the life and legacy of Eddie Jaku, whose powerful story of survival and kindness has inspired millions around the world.
Title/Opportunity The Last Giants
Feature COSMIC MASHUP ONE PTY LTD NSW Executive Producer – Chris Kamen. Producer – Leeanne Torpey. Writer/Director/Producer – Joseph Nizeti. Writer/Producer – Rob Innes Documentary Production 2026 Among Tasmania’s towering eucalypts, married couple Jen and Steve create striking giant tree portraits, fighting to give the Grove of Giants a voice before it’s lost forever.
Title/Opportunity The Long Road Home
Feature SCENIC ROUTE TV PTY LTD WA Executive Producer – Adam Shand, Jamie Holt. Producer – Nick Calpakdjian. Writer/Director – Thomas de Souza Documentary Production 2026 Tom de Souza makes an epic solo motorcycle surfing adventure across Indonesia looking to free himself of a past of drugs, crime, and murder, only to realise the road leads back to the place he’s spent a lifetime running from.
Title/Opportunity The Weight of Snow
Feature People Productions Pty. Ltd. NSW Producer – Carolina Sorensen. Writer/Director – Matias Bolla Documentary Production 2026 In the far south of Chilean Patagonia, ageing gauchos live alone on vast ranches, sustaining a way of life built on endurance. As drought takes hold and their bodies begin to fail, they must decide whether survival means adapting or being left behind.
Title/Opportunity Untitled Dreamchaser Productions Pty Ltd Project
TV DREAMCHASER PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD NSW Director – Gil Marsden. Executive Producer – Billy Russell, Sara Horn. Producer – Ivan O'Mahoney Documentary Production 2026 A project that explores coercive control and investigates a high profile missing persons case.
Title/Opportunity Untitled Easy Tiger Project
TV EASY TIGER WEST PTY LTD WA Director – Russell Vines, Jake Blackburn. Producer – Nel Minchin. Writer – Adam Zwar Documentary Production 2026 A nostalgic archive-based series that explores Australia’s love affair with nature.