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The Producer Equity Program (PEP) was introduced in 2011 and provides a direct payment of funds to producers of eligible low-budget Australian documentaries, equal to 20 per cent of the approved budget.
Ten years after its first iteration, Screen Australia’s hugely successful industry development program Enterprise will return in 2019.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department is calling on emerging Indigenous filmmakers to submit 10 minute scripted story ideas for the Short Blacks short film initiative.
Screen Australia’s TV drama production funding program, General Drama, will now include additional application rounds – bringing the total rounds per financial year from three to five.
Effective 1 March 2018, the Matched Marketplace Development program will no longer be available for applications.
Run in partnership with the state screen agencies, Outreach is a free service to assist creatives from outside Sydney and Melbourne to connect with Screen Australia staff.
From 25 September 2017, applications for Screen Australia’s Letter of Interest program for feature film production can be made at any time.
Event Partnerships is now known as Industry Partnerships, and applications are open for the three-year Australian festival funding cycle.
Screen Australia’s Hot Shots Short Film Fund has been reimagined as a proof of concept program and retitled Hot Shots Plus.
In 2017, the Producer Offset turns 10 years old.
In August, Screen Australia’s report on diversity in TV drama, Seeing Ourselves, revealed characters of non-Anglo Celtic backgrounds, those with a disability or identified as LGBTQI were all underrepresented on screen.
Screen Australia is looking for ambitious Indigenous online storytellers with big ideas, and aspiring Indigenous creative producers, to take part in two new programs commencing in 2017.