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Screen Australia Invests In 18 Features
Kriv Stenders, Gillian Armstrong and Paul Cox are among a handful of filmmakers to receive funding.
Screen Australia has just announced almost $500,000 in funding to support the development of 18 feature films - a mix of exciting new projects from some of our finest filmmakers, as well as a slew of promising new voices.
Filmmakers to receive support for feature development include Oscar-winning producer Emile Sherman (The King's Speech) working with writers Jamie Browne, Kris Mrksa and director Clayton Jacobson (Kenny) to develop the crime feature The Docks.
Sherman is also set to produce the survival feature Tracks, which is based on the true story of Robyn Davidson's epic journey through the Australian dessert, and marks the return of filmmaker John Curran (Praise, Stone, The Painted Veil) to Australia.
Another filmmaker making a return is writer/director Emma-Kate Croghan (Love & Other Catastrophes) with the bittersweet The Household Guide To Dying, based on the acclaimed novel by Debra Adelaide. Croghan hasn't made a film since 1999's Strange Planet.
Director Kriv Stenders (pictured) who scored a box office knockout this year with his first family film, Red Dog, will receive funding to develop the comic romance script F*****! A Romance, which is being penned by Andy Cox who wrote Stenders' previous film, Lucky Country. The screenplay follows two teenagers who decide to elope as a way of escaping their freakish families.
Filmmaker Paul Cox (Man of Flowers, Lonely Hearts, Innocence), will work alongside executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles, in developing his own harrowing and poetic memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into the drama script Force of Destiny.
Having not directed a film on her home turf since 1991's Proof, Jocelyn Moorhouse has also received a bout of funding to continue to develop her black comedy script The Dressmaker about a young woman who returns to Australia after many years in Europe to right the wrongs of her past.
Screen Australia continues support for writer Tony McNamara's adaptation of his own stage play, The Great, a historical fantasy to be directed by Gillian Armstrong.
While Greg McLean may be best known for terrifying audiences with his acclaimed horror film Wolf Creek (and its in-the-works follow-up), the writer/director is also receiving funding to develop the family film Piccolo - The Dolphin Prince.
Screen Australia has also announced financial support for a number of emerging filmmakers including writer Sarah Walker who will develop her first feature with The Line, which follows an obsessive investigative journalist, and writer Lachlan Philpott who is working on Silent Disco, a drama about two teens whose fragile relationship is broken by a devastating betrayal of trust.
The husband and wife team of writer Robyn Butler and director Wayne Hope, who found success on the idiot box with The Librarian, will also make their step into filmmaking with Now Add Honey, a comedy about a suburban family whose life is turned upside down when their pop star cousin turns up on their doorstep.
For the complete list of projects to receive development funding, visit Screen Australia's website.
