Funding organization Screen Australia has awarded A$5.2 million (US$3.4 million) to strengthen 18 businesses and provide 18 individual placement opportunities under its Enterprise Business Program.
Grain Blunsdon
The scheme is for Screen Australia to provide producers with funding to start up, change or grow their businesses.
This year’s winners include NSW regional producer Magpie Pictures, newly launched female-focused showrunner-led producer Lantern Pictures and Northern Territory-based Observation Documents. They include specialist Tenfour Media and Fremantle-backed Artemis Media.
The Enterprise Business Program has been running since 2009 and has invested A$50 million to date, supporting over 133 film companies and 136 independent creators.
The Enterprise People component of this funding will directly support the careers of new and developing content creators through referrals that will help them develop their on-screen careers.
The latest screeners include Kacie Anning, who has been with US company Paper Planes for six months. Sherry Roman, Easy Tiger Productions (Territory, Colin From Accounts); and Nadia Townsend (“Lion,” “Love Me”) in collaboration with Aquarius Films.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous Affairs unit is comprised of four Indigenous businesses: Jari House, The Lone Star Company, No Coincidence Media and Pandamonium Films, as well as Travis Akbar, Isaac Cohen Lindsay and Joshua Ackbar. We have invested A$1 million in a program to support three of Yassery’s practitioners.
Screen Australia Chief Operating Officer Grainne Brunsdon said: We are excited to support such a diverse range of companies from across Australia and placements that provide local practitioners with vital upskilling as they develop their careers here and around the world. ”
Other companies receiving Enterprise Business funding this year include Factor 30 Films, indiVisual Films International, Kapwa, Mad Ones Films, New Mac, Never/Sleep Pictures, Shop 15 Productions (Slag Productions), Thousand Mile Productions, Walking Fish Productions, Wild Pacific. media.
In related news, Screen Australia has appointed Screen Agency executive and producer Tania Chambers to its board of directors for a three-year term.
Mr Chambers was previously chief executive of funding companies Screen NSW and ScreenWest, and in recent years was a producer and executive producer of Feasty Dame Productions, producing films such as Invisible Boys and Kill Me Three Times. ” and the documentary “How to Please a Woman,” among other films and television series. Making Waves and the children’s series Itch.
Screen Australia’s other board members are Michael Ebeid (Chairman), Megan Brownlow (Vice-Chairman), Marta Dusseldorp, Sasha Holler, Deborah Mailman, Nicholas Pickard and Pallavi Sharda. Mr Chambers will succeed Helen Leake, who will retire at the end of her term on June 26.
