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Take a look at the productions, programs and practitioners previously funded by Screen NSW, from local film festivals to international blockbusters.
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Program: Development Program
Project: Once Upon A Time You Loved Me
Recipient: Media Stockade
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Melissa Anastasi | Producers: Rebecca Barry, Deanne Weir, Bernadette Murray
Synopsis: Once Upon A Time You Loved Me is an intimate and personal feature film about first love and first heartbreak, tracking themes of female desire and sexuality, set within the diaspora communities of south western Sydney.
App ID: DEV2425-0008
Program: Development Program
Project: Free Riders
Recipient: Night Kitchen Productions
Genre: Action adventure, comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer: Steve Worland | Producer: Matt Reeder
Synopsis: In the adrenaline-fueled world of underground BMX racing, a young rider's dreams are jeopardized when he becomes embroiled in a dangerous scheme to pay off a debt, forcing him to choose between family and glory.
App ID: DEV2324-0268
Program: Development Program
Project: Khana
Recipient: Co-Curious
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Co-Director: Arka Das | Director: Stevie Cruz-Martin | Producer: Annabel Davis, Kali Reid | EP: Sheila Jayadev
Synopsis: An ambitious young man sets out to clear his family’s debt and ends up far from home, washing dishes in a failing Indian restaurant in Western Sydney. When his secret cooking skills are discovered he comes close to success, but finds himself caught up in a dark underworld.
App ID: DEV2425-0003
Program: Development Program
Project: Death Bell
Recipient: Portal Productions
Genre: Horror
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Andrew "Undi" Lee | Producer: Kristina Wong Foster, Jacqueline Kerwick
Synopsis: Trapped within their high school, a group of students confront a gauntlet of deadly challenges, forcing them to fight for their lives while unravelling the dark secrets behind their captivity.
App ID: DEV2425-0015
Program: Development Program
Project: Ghost Bike
Recipient: Southern Light
Genre: Action adventure, Mystery, Coming of age
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Rhett D'Arrietta | Writer: Roma D'Arrietta | Producer: Timothy White
Synopsis: After a mysterious hit-and-run, an eleven year old boy and his ragtag group of friends set off on an adventure to bring their best friend back from the dead.
App ID: DEV2324-0248
Program: Development Program
Project: King Oscar
Recipient: Even Stevens
Genre: Action adventure, family
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer: Steven Worland | Producer: Jason Stevens | Script Editor: Felicity Price
Synopsis: A renowned veteran husky is saved from a grim fate by a polar legend who takes him back to Antarctica, where he reinvigorates his old pack and leads a daring expedition to study climate change.
App ID: DEV2324-0051
Program: Development Program
Project: Doris Fish
Recipient: Lala Pictures
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: James Elazzi | Producer: Andrew Arbuthnot | Script Editor: Keith Thompson
Synopsis: 1980s Sydney, Doris Fish, Phillip Mill's drag alter ego, is determined to squash inequality with lipstick, quick wit and frontline gay activism in an anti-homosexual world gripped with fear of a strange new disease, AIDS.
App ID: DEV2324-0232
Program: Development Program
Project: Soy Boy
Recipient: 2C Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Dane McCusker | Producer: Jessica Murphy
Synopsis: After a Hinge date from hell, two ultra-progressive content creators fight to de-platform each other before one of them is cancelled for good.
App ID: DEV2324-0267
Program: Development Program
Project: Square the Circle
Recipient: Carver Films
Genre: Crime
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer: Jessica Redenbach | Director: Ana Kokkinos | Producers: Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw
Synopsis: Three women – a career criminal, an ambitious cop and a daring teenage runaway - are drawn into a dangerous game of high-stake heists and subterfuge that threatens to destroy them all.
App ID: DEV2324-0226
Program: Development Program
Project: Bluebottle
Recipient: Sweetshop & Green
Genre: Horror, thriller, coming of age
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Jack Clark | Director: Jim Weir | Producers: Gal Greenspan, Rachel Forbes
Synopsis: On the final night of 'Schoolies' in an isolated coast town, three local boys battle three older men for the affection of three private school girls.
App ID: DEV2324-0246
Program: Development Program
Project: Secret Santa
Genre: Christmas Movie
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writers: Nicholas Boshier, Jazz Twemlow
Synopsis: Spurred by a nervous breakdown and the discovery of mysterious clues from her late disgraced explorer father, risk averse corporate drone Bronwyn sets off to clear her family name by trying to prove Santa is real.
App ID: DEV2324-0225
Program: Development Program
Project: Yagoona
Recipient: After Bark, Flying Bark Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: TV Series
Key Creatives: Writers: Clare Atkins, Shirley Le | Executive Producers: Barbara Stephen, Hugh Baldwin | Producers: Majhid Heath, Coco Garner Davis
Synopsis: Based on the novel Funny Ethnics by Shirley Le, Yagoona follows Westie Sylvia Nguyen's coming-of-rage as a law school dropout and wannabe writer struggling to meet the expectations of her refugee parents. Yagoona is a part of the After Bark slate for Flying Bark Productions
App ID: DEV2425-0026
Program: Development Program
Project: Sundowner
Recipient: Sanctuary Pictures
Genre: Thriller
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: David Robinson-Smith | Producers: Julie Ryan and Ari Harrison
Synopsis: A disgraced journalist, banished to a remote house after a scandal, spirals into self-destruction until he's offered a career-reviving exclusive by an anonymous, dying serial killer desperate to immortalise his legacy.
App ID: DEV2425-0095
Program: Development Program
Project: Boss Cat
Recipient: Bus Stop Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith | Producers: Eleanor Winkler, Deanne Weir
Synopsis: In Boss Cat, 23-year-old Sonja, a woman with Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), faces a turning point after the sudden death of her mother. Her estranged grandmother Doris (70s) steps in. Their conflict intensifies as Doris’s protective but misguided approach clashes with Sonja’s growing need for self-reliance.
App ID: DEV2425-0114
Program: Development Program
Project: My Body Is A Costume
Recipient: Cosmic Scream
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Jayden Rathsam-Hua | Producers: Hugo Koehne, Henry Koehne and Jayden Rathsam Hua
Synopsis: Drawn to a debaucherous underground rave in search of escape from her stifling home life, 17-year-old Maddy becomes trapped in a nightmarish time loop where twisted replicas of herself threaten to imprison her forever.
App ID: DEV2425-0135
Program: Development Program
Project: Muscle
Recipient: Charlotte McLellan
Genre: Drama, contemporary & social issues incl. social history
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film/Documentary hybrid
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Charlotte Mars
Synopsis: What begins as a documentary about members of an Underground All-female Fight Club, slowly reveals itself to be the story of its troubled filmmaker, who is inexplicably drawn into the very world she is documenting.
App ID: DEV2324-0219
Program: Development Program
Project: UNTITLED TV PROJECT
Recipient: Dreamchaser Productions
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: TV Series
App ID: DEV2425-0035
Program: Development Program
Project: Grey Nomads
Recipient: 25 FPS
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: TV Series
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Felix Williamson | Producers: Kerri Mainwaring and Hamish Roxburgh
Synopsis: Six Grey Nomads, with little in common, embark on The Big Lap of Australia, finding beauty, hardship, love, adventure, joy, and, with a bit of luck, themselves on the road.
App ID: DEV2324-0272
Program: Development Program
Project: UNTITLED TV PROJECT
Recipient: Daniel Bennett
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: TV Series
App ID: DEV2324-0242
Program: Development Program
Project: Brazen
Recipient: Wolf House Productions
Genre: Crime, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: TV Series
Key Creatives: Writer: Tommy Murphy | Director/EP: Abe Forsythe | EP: Jodi Matterson
Synopsis: A hardened criminal biker and a determined cop find themselves entangled in a dangerous and forbidden relationship, navigating a world of power, loyalty, and desire in this action-packed, crime series.
App ID: DEV2425-0044
Program: Development Program
Project: Scribbly and Doodles
Genre: Family, Animation
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Children's TV Series
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Gary Eck, Nick O'Sullivan
Synopsis: Scribbly and Doodles is a pre-school animated series that follows the adventures of Scribbly and Doodles, colourful 3D characters who come to life in a 2D hand-drawn world whenever a child leaves behind a scribble or doodle. Each episode explores how these simple marks spark fantastical journeys and imaginative narratives.
App ID: DEV2425-0055
Program: Development Program
Project: Little Creatures
Recipient: Matchbox Pictures
Genre: Kids, Comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Children's TV Series
Key Creatives: Writer: Sam Cotton | Producer: Mimi Butler
Synopsis: Inspired by Sam Cotton's wildly successful TikTok animations, LITTLE CREATURES is a live action, animation hybrid about a tiny animated girl and her dad.
App ID: DEV2324-0270
Program: Development Program
Project: Las Awichas
Recipient: UNF
Genre: Arts and Culture, Contemporary & social issues, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series (Short form)
Key Creatives: Writer: Violeta Ayala | Producer: Daniel Fallshaw
Synopsis: In Las Awichas (Grandmothers), time and boundaries between humans and animals dissolve. Eight stories unfold in our hands, reminding us: to become infinite, we must allow others to exist.
App ID: DEV2324-0284
Program: Development Program
Project: In Focus
Recipient: Chaos & Co Productions
Genre: Action Adventure
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
Key Creatives: Writer: Barat Ali Batoor | Writer/Director: Joseph Nizeti, Barat Ali Batoor | Producer: Leeanne Torpey
Synopsis: On a quest to unveil the truth about his community, photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor has no idea that he is about to become the subject of his greatest story yet.
App ID: DEV2425-0027
Program: Development Program
Project: Crossing the Tideline
Recipient: Stitch Films and Regen Studios
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Andrew Kaineder | Writer: Damon Gameau | Producer: Anna Kaplan
Synopsis: A surfer is attacked by a Great White Shark, chillingly captured on a drone, and embarks on a journey to understand and rediscover his connection to the ocean–and to himself.
App ID: DEV2425-0005
Program: Development Program
Project: The Man Who Ate A Succulent Chinese Meal
Recipient: Crash House Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: Heath Davis | Producer: Julia Scales, Tim Randall, Johnathan Page
Synopsis: The madcap life story of Australia’s most infamous and immortalized criminal turned internet sensation: Jack Karlsen.
App ID: DEV2425-0024
Program: Development Program
Project: UNTITLED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Recipient: Nebula Starway
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
App ID: DEV2324-0131
Program: Development Program
Project: The Jump
Recipient: Pivot Studios Entertainment
Genre: Action adventure, comedy, history & identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
Key Creatives: Writer/Director: James Crawley | Writer/Producer: Tim Russell
Synopsis: An aging stuntman with a lifetime of setbacks embarks on one final death-defying act to secure his legacy: breaking the car jumping world record in a desert racing truck.
App ID: DEV2324-0203
Program: Development Program
Project: UNTITLED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Recipient: Media Stockade & Tellus Films
Financial year: 2024/25
App ID: DEV2324-0077
Program: Development Program
Project: UNTITLED FACTUAL SERIES
Recipient: WildBear Entertainment
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Factual Series
App ID: DEV2425-0073
Program: Development Program
Project: The Art of War and Peace
Recipient: Mint Pictures
Genre: Action Adventure, Arts & Culture, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Factual Series
Key Creatives: Writer: Dan Goldberg | Producer: Jodi Boylan | EP: Craig Graham, Rachel Griffiths
Synopsis: ‘The Art of War’ follows art lover Rachel Griffiths on a very different tour of duty: to tell the story of Australia’s wars through the prism of the arts – how artists, filmmakers, writers and musicians have portrayed us at war (and peace) and why it matters to all Aussies.
App ID: DEV2425-0004