By Filmink Staff
It was announced today that Screen Australia’s Documentary Producer and Commissioned programs have committed $1.6m dollars to a number of documentary projects, including their first funding towards a Virtual Reality work.
Senior Manager of Documentary at Screen Australia, Liz Stevens, said: “Funding such a broad range of projects from both established and emerging talent points to a promising future for our local documentary industry. Australians are passionate documentarians and we are confident these projects will offer Australian and international audiences important, entertaining insights into our world.”
Melbourne’s Princess Pictures have received Documentary Commissioned funding for My Year 7 Life, which follows 16 children as they transition from primary to high school, recording vlogs to document their feelings and experiences. This project has also received Film Victoria funding.
Projects receiving Documentary Producer funding include:
Vitamania – The Sense and Nonsense of Vitamins and Minerals, an investigative look at the science and history of the $90 billion global supplements industry, hosted by Dr Derek Muller whose YouTube channel Veritasium boasts an impressive 3.5 million subscribers.
Feature Sanctuary, an examination of the current global refugee policies mapped against the individual experience of a young Iraqi man whose harrowing life has taken him to the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia and back again.
I Used To Be Normal – A Boyband Fangirl Story, which look at the multi-generational phenomenon of boy-bands and the devoted fan-girls whose lives are consumed by an intense obsession with their idols.
Storm Rider, by contemporary artist Shaun Gladwell, will document his quest to teach a young British Muslim woman how to skateboard.
Sixteen Legs, a feature-length extension to the critically acclaimed short of the same name, from producer/writer/director and scientist Niall Doran and Media Stockade.
ABC Arts documentary You See Monsters, where six Muslim-Australians artists will share their experience of using artistic expression – including painting, poetry and music – to articulate and reclaim a sense of identity in a climate of anti-Islam sentiment.
