By Travis Johnson
Peak funding body Screen Australia today announced over three million dollars worth of funding had been allocated to a wide variety of upcoming Australian projects in their latest round. The chosen productions include feature films, television series, and multi-platform projects, along with talent and development funding for individuals and companies.
Among the projects are:
ABC TV’s The Warriors a new Indigenous comedy drama series from Arenamedia set in the competitive world of Australian Rules Football.
NITV documentary Carry The Flag which delves into the story behind the Torres Strait Island flag designed by Bernard Namok.
Virtual reality project The Buried, a 3D immersive experience that plunges the viewer into a magical Dreamtime world, from Indigenous writer/director Tyson Mowarin.
Event Zero, a hybrid-format SVOD feature film and TV series based on the 2012 web series of the same name, from producer/director Enzo Tedeschi.
Australian Irish comedy series Drop Dead Weird for Seven Network and RTE Ireland, which follows an Australian family who move to rural Ireland to run the family B&B.
Web series High Life from executive producers Stephen Fry and Gina Carter about a 17-year-old girl who experiences her first manic episode of bipolar disorder;
Another season of YouTube mockumentary These New South Whales from writer/director/producing team Jamie and Ben Timony and Todd Andrews.
Eight features received story development funding:
The Unknown Soldier, based on the inspiring true story of the British priest who created the first Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Celestial Blue, a thriller that sees an air hostess Avery is faced with a deadly pandemic that breaks out on board mid-flight, from These Final Hours writer/director Zak Hilditch and producer Liz Kearney.
The Blue Tin, a powerful dramatisation of a death-in-custody tragedy from producer David Jowsey (Goldstone, Mystery Road) and writer Stephen Sewell;
Sci-fi drama In Vitro from writer/director team Will Jaymes and Sam McKeith,
Jirga from writer Benjamin Gilmour and producer John Maynard (Sherpa), about a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a man he killed in combat.
We look forward to seeing all these projects come to fruition in the future.
