The Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) 2009 is now accepting applications from Australia, embracing the Australian industry as part of the Asia Pacific community.

Our latest Hot Shops workshop paired the five Hot Shots filmmaking teams with experienced Heads of Department for two days to enhance and develop their projects.

Screen Australia’s Hot Shots Short Film Fund has been reimagined as a proof of concept program and retitled Hot Shots Plus.

The premiere Canadian international documentary festival HotDocs has announced its program for 2009, which will include the screening of two Australian documentaries.

Screen Australia announces two one-day Film Labs for experienced feature practitioners with international distribution expert Peter Buckingham.

With the end-of-June deadline fast approaching for Impact Australia 2, Australian writers are urged to submit to the highly-coveted program which will take place in Melbourne in September.

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.

Screen Australia has closed the Temporary Interruption Fund (TIF).

Screen Australia and AFTRS are pleased to present international guest Thom Powers, documentary programmer for TIFF.

The Indigenous Department’s seven-city industry tour continues this October.

Core to the Screen Australia Indigenous Department’s The Next 25 Years strategy is making connections with new talent and assisting creators in taking advantage of the range of opportunities available.

Applications are open for two new programs: The Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative and the Indigenous Producers Initiative.