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 Brine Pool
Game Quinn Franks VIC Composer – William Palazzo. Creative Director – Quinn Franks Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 A surreal comedy of delusion follows a cast of bizarre creatures in the desolate wastelands of Brine Pool.
Title/Opportunity Deathspiral
Game Endless River PTY LTD QLD Designer – Nicholas Thandi. Technical Artist – Ethan Noble Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Struggle to survive a hostile and surreal world, where every encounter asks you to risk it all on your path to finding The Gilded Door.
Title/Opportunity Frankie Finder Lost Their Marbles
Game Ethan Franks VIC Creative Director – Ethan Franks. Lead Artist – Natasha Wong Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 When a Mysterious Marble Thief strikes the primary school, Frankie Finder; The World's Best Kid Detective is on the case.
Title/Opportunity Goodnight, NSW
Game sophia Antipolis NSW Lead Design – sophia Antipolis. Writer – Daniel McMahon Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 A light real-time tactics experience that uses fog of war to tell a story about memory, small town Australia, and the ways time and trauma distort our reality.
Title/Opportunity Gutterjacket
Game Christopher Marcatili NSW Art Director – Luke Marcatili. Writer – Christopher Marcatili Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 When a street-smart hustler helps a fugitive technician from a paramilitary manhunt in a flooded cyberpunk city, their uneasy alliance pulls them into a conspiracy that forces them to choose between destroying, seizing, or negotiating with the mind-controlling megacorp threatening to subsume the underclass entirely.
Title/Opportunity Hex Punks
Game Darcy Morris QLD 2D Artist – Elly-Rose Burrowes. 3D Artist – Max Wilson. Composer – Oscar Jemmott. Consultant – William Hinz, Louis Van Dyke. Producer – Darcy Morris. Programmer – Jordan Sparks Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Hex Punks is a creature collector, turn-based tactics game in which you play as a kid going on an epic adventure.
Title/Opportunity Infinite Airport Upholstery
Game Richard Cyngler TAS Consultant – Russell Andrews. Creative Director – Richie Cyngler. Marketing Manager – Emily Lawrence Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Design. You. Play.
Title/Opportunity Kin Keeper
Game Megan Pusey WA Creative Director – Megan Pusey Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 An interactive narrative game about the challenges of becoming a new parent
Title/Opportunity KING OUT
Game Koji Yajima NSW Developer – Koji Yajima Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 KING OUT is a 1v1 online multiplayer Chess-Boxing game where players muster the strategy within chaos. Draft your pieces, navigate your moves in chess, then nominate your piece to become a fighter, and box on the board against your opponent. Capture or K.O. your opponent's last King to win!
Title/Opportunity Masque Delusion
Game Harley Raj Brown Cirkovic t/a Escapebutton Interactive NSW Creative Director, Narrative, Writer, 2D Artist – Harley Brown-Cirkovic. Lead Programmer – Robert Bagnato. Sound Designer – Jane Wei. UI Artist – Lily Tucker. Liam Clarkson-Holborn – 3D Artist. Hailey Alan Sidney Brown – 3D Artist. Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 The Masque Royale is a strange old building, an insular society full of residents who must wear their personalised masks at all times. On Maskerade’s eve, a mischievous individual plays a most devious prank, leaving an impartial party and guest of the Royale to do the investigating among the chaos.
Title/Opportunity Moonwolf
Game FAUVES PTY LTD VIC Solo Developer – Declan Lever-Ford Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 After a series of mysterious disappearances an unlikely duo teams up to investigate. A journalist’s lead takes you through rain-soaked terraces and deep into an alpine woodland. A silver bullet, a monster, and a job to do.
Title/Opportunity Motif
Game William Hinz QLD Creative Director, Narrative Designer, Voice Over Artist – William Hinz. 3D Artist – Max Wilson. Designer – Oscar Jemmott. Narrative Designer – Enjo Hirst. Producer – Darcy Morris. Programmer – Daniel Tan. Mentor/Consultant – Programming and Design – Zachary Schoessow. Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Locked in a high rise apartment with a 1980’s street directory, a time traveling piano, and a serial killer; solve the murders of his 81 victims.
Title/Opportunity Piyavki
Game Noemi Pajak-Grigorean VIC Creative Director – Noemi Pajak-Grigorean. Lead Programmer – William Parkin. Sound Designer – Fentine Gard. Technical Artist – Bora Erdogan Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Polish 3D top down survial-horror RPG where each cast brings you closer to death.
Title/Opportunity Project Worl
Game Kathryn Gledhill WA Solo Developer – Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Project Worl is a rhythm platformer set in a futuristic landscape where every roll, pitch, yaw, and perfectly timed pickup adds layers to the game’s soundscape.
Title/Opportunity Restoration Simulator
Game CERBERUS BYTES PTY LTD VIC Developer – Christopher Burns Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Find It, Fix It, Flip It. A cozy open-world game set in 90s suburban Australia. Explore at your own pace, hunting for treasures in hard rubbish piles, op-shops, and trash and treasure markets. Restore them piece by piece, learning how things really work, then sell or donate your finds. Unlock new tools and tackle bigger restorations along the way.
Title/Opportunity Rewild Isle
Game Philip Erm VIC Solo Developer – Philip Erm Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 A once-thriving Australian island needs a helping hand to bring nature back from the brink. Let the rewilding begin.
Title/Opportunity ROGUEFLITE Extraction
Game Steven Christian t/a aFewBitsShort VIC Solo Developer – Steven Christian Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 ROGUEFLITE Extraction is a single-player extraction roguelite where every action makes the journey home more dangerous. Explore an abandoned facility, using physics and elemental interactions to uncover alternate routes. Reactivate dormant systems for greater rewards, but increased overall difficulty. Push too deep and you may not survive the return journey. Exploit the world. It adapts. Extract if you can.
Title/Opportunity Sacred Mire
Game PUBLIC VOID PTY LTD — Creative Director – Stella O'Keefe. Lead Developer – Guglielmo Bosco Bartilomo Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Envelop yourself in the mystery of a holy swamp and cast your way towards the secrets within
Title/Opportunity Sketchy Dumpster
Game Sketchy Dumpster VIC Solo Developer – John Evans Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 Move to the big city and carve out a comfortable life inside your inner north share house.
Title/Opportunity Spell Slinger
Game Luke Fronsko NT Composer – Ben Houghton. Producer & 3D Artist – Luke Fronsko. Programmer – Daniel Ferguson Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026 As the last mage of the Order of the Bound Book, you are tasked with eradicating evil foes across a dark fantasy world in a first-person rail shooter inspired by the games from the arcade light-gun era.