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Take a look at some of the projects, programs and practitioners previously funded by Screen NSW, from local film festivals to international blockbusters.
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Program: Development Program
Project: Love Button
Recipient: Photoplay Films
Genre: Medical Science Drama Series
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr/Creators: Jessica Tuckwell, Amy Parry | Prod: Karen Radzyner, Linda Micsko
Synopsis: It’s 1998 and Dr. Georgia Strong’s world is about to go bang! Freshly grieving the death of her beloved sister, surgical Resident Dr. Strong is seconded into the world’s first study mapping the anatomy of …the clitoris, just as Viagra is hitting the market, threatening to steal the spotlight. A bold, character-driven medical drama series, LOVE BUTTON is inspired by the explosive true story (you’ve never heard of!) about Australia’s first female Urologist and her ground-breaking research team.
App ID: DEV2425-0291
Program: Development Program
Project: Love Is Not A Verb - The Series
Recipient: Northern Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre: Romantic comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr: Rebecca Sommi Fisher | Prod: Darren Ashton
Synopsis: Thomas, a young man on the autism spectrum is heartbroken when the girl ‘of his dreams’ ends their relationship. Believing love is a formula that he can solve, he embarks on winning her back, until Ornella, a vivacious hip hop dancer derails his orderly life.
App ID: DEV2425-0181
Program: Development Program
Project: Credible Threat
Recipient: Subtext Pictures
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr/Prod: Rebecca Greensill | Executive Producers: Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt
Synopsis: An action-packed, crime procedural from a new perspective: an elite team of personal security specialists who protect their wide-range of clients from murderers, stalkers, kidnappers, organised crime, online threats, violent protestors and occasionally…from the clients themselves.
App ID: DEV2425-0241
Program: Development Program
Project: The Sound of Light
Recipient: Julietta Boscolo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Julietta Boscolo | Prod: Alexandra Taussig
Synopsis: 17-year-old Mia’s life seems Insta-worthy: she’s a finalist for a dream scholarship and a cute boy likes her back. But there’s part of Mia’s life that she hides; while she tries desperately to find space to be a normal teenager. Yet imagined characters torment her, declaring she’s not worthy of…well, anything.
App ID: DEV2425-0195
Program: Development Program
Project: Symbiosis
Recipient: Pictures in Paradise Devlopment Pty ltd
Genre: Horror
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner, Prod: Chris Brown, Diana Le Dean
Synopsis: Ash has just turned 16 and her body is undergoing some hellish changes. She’s been branded a freak at school because her mother tells crazy stories about being attacked by an alien, but when Ash starts to develop strange powers and a shapeshifting entity starts killing her bullies - she is forced to face a horrifying truth: her mother isn’t crazy and whatever is waking up inside her… isn’t human.
App ID: DEV2425-0222
Program: Development Program
Project: Forever Young
Recipient: Breathless Films Pty Ltd
Genre: Comedy, drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Ulysses Oliver, Josh Mullins | Prod: Ulysses Oliver, Ben Ferris | Dir: Josh Mullins, Ulysses Oliver
Synopsis: In this absurdist dark comedy, a man ageing beyond his years joins a cult promising rebirth as a six-year-old, resorting to desperate, violent acts to stay forever young.
App ID: DEV2425-0146
Program: Development Program
Project: In The Weeds
Recipient: Rhapsody Films Pty Ltd
Genre: Comedy, drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr: Ainslie Clouston, Kacie Anning, Thomas Wilson-White | Prod: Alice Willison
Synopsis: Burnt by the industry she loved, Zilla starts over as a private chef, serving Sydney’s rich and reckless behind closed doors. From failing marriages to sex parties gone wrong, she’s drawn into her clients’ messy, heartfelt, and often hilarious personal challenges… all while trying to keep her own life from boiling over.
App ID: DEV2425-0250
Program: Development Program
Project: Bean
Recipient: Tama Films
Genre: Romantic comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Claire Phillips | Dir: Leticia Cáceres | Prod: Miriam Stein
Synopsis: Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, two teenagers set out on the road together, only to discover what they’re truly seeking is each other.
App ID: DEV2425-0202
Program: Development Program
Project: Lights, Setbacks, Action!
Recipient: Pia Derya
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Pia Deraya
Synopsis: Lights, Setbacks, Action! is a heartfelt yet humorous narrative about Sibel, a 35-year-old Turkish immigrant in Australia, trapped in a cycle of stereotypical roles despite her undeniable talent and ambition. Her personal life, weighed down by the demands of a diabetic mother, an uninspired husband, and a suffocating social circle, further complicates her struggle. The sudden death of her close friend Betty, after a long day on set, forces Sibel to confront the painful reality of a life filled with unfulfilled dreams. Desperate for change, she writes a predictable immigrant drama, hoping for success. But as the lines between fiction and reality blur, she must face her deepest fears and fight against the very system that attempts to define her. This film is a raw exploration of reclaiming identity and finding one's voice amidst overwhelming odds.
App ID: DEV2425-0161
Program: Development Program
Project: Paradise
Recipient: Aquarius Films Pty Ltd
Genre: Drama, contemporary & social issues
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Roger Monk | Dir: Rhys Graham, Phoenix Raei | Prod: Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford, Osamah Sami
Synopsis: Paradise is the true, devastatingly beautiful love story of two young men who meet in offshore detention on Nauru after fleeing persecution.
App ID: DEV2425-0176
Program: Development Program
Project: Jiling
Recipient: Darlene Johnson
Genre: Drama, contemporary, Coming of age, Sport
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir/Prod: Darlene Johnson | Prod: Tania Chambers
Synopsis: Jiling, a troubled teenager, must break the cycle of intergenerational trauma so she can gain custody of the child she was forced to give away while in Juvy. She finds hope and redemption by learning to channel her rage with the help of a hard-ass mentor.
App ID: DEV2425-0178
Program: Development Program
Project: Untitled Documentary project
Recipient: Enigma Machine Pty Ltd
Genre: Contemporary and Social Issues including social history, History & Identity, Women & Politics
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Documentary
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir/Prod: Philippa Bateman
Synopsis: Australia’s most popular politician finds herself with a true crime drama on her hands. Senator Jacqi Lambie lives to fight, and nothing gets her more riled than institutional cover ups and injustice. Especially when people without access to money, power and influence are ignored, screwed over or lied to—be that suicidal veterans, whistleblowers, the poor, non-English speaking textile workers, or… the unsolved case of a 15-year-old constituent found hanging from a tree.
App ID: DEV2425-0191
Program: Development Program
Project: Ballpark Normal
Recipient: Drama Queen Pty Ltd
Genre: Drama series
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Prod: Justine Flynn, Naomi Just | Wr: Sofya Gollan
Synopsis: Ava and Olivia are two sisters with big lives and big dreams. Both Deaf, their lives are suddenly hijacked by the discovery of a tightly held family secret.
App ID: DEV2425-0193
Program: Development Program
Project: Chicken Divas
Recipient: SLR Productions Pty Ltd
Genre: Comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Prod: Suzanne Ryan | Wr: Charlotte Rose Hamlyn | Dir: Mark Gravas
Synopsis: The all-singing, all-sparkling adventures of two best friends of a feather, on a musical mission to spread dazzling diva fun together based on the books by Lucinda Gifford.
App ID: DEV2425-0209
Program: Development Program
Project: A Model Family
Recipient: Photoplay Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Prod: Karen Radzyner, Linda Micsko, Renny Wijeyamohan | Wr: Keir Wilkins, Sonia Whiteman, Renny Wijeyamohan, Guy Edmonds, Emmanuelle Mattana
Synopsis: Five ultra-lifelike AIs on the run from ‘decommissioning’ (euphemism!), must pass for a human ‘nuclear' family to survive in sunny Rainy Cove.
App ID: DEV2425-0172
Program: Development Program
Project: Kites
Recipient: STFF Holdings PTY LTD
Genre: Family, Arts & Culture, Science & Environment
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documentary Feature
Key Creatives: Prod: Jo-anne McGowan | Dir: Clemens Habicht
Synopsis: Three children are bonded across continents in the ancient art of kite making and flying.
App ID: DEV2425-0169
Program: Development Program
Project: Untitled Project
Recipient: Jessica Carrera
Genre: Drama, Arts & Culture, Romance
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Prod: Jessica Carrera
App ID: DEV2425-0074
Program: Development Program
Project: Master File
Recipient: Stephen Corvini
Genre: Thriller, Contemporary & Social Issues, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Factual Series
Key Creatives: Key creator: Steve Lewis | Wr: Greg Waters | Script Editor: Caden Pearson | Prod: Stephen Corvini
Synopsis: When Cape York man Jake Waters is assigned to an elite crime- busting unit in Sydney, he’ll discover an audacious cover-up which could destroy his family and shatter national sovereignty. Dark secrets are revealed in a world where there’s nowhere to hide ... and no one to trust.
App ID: DEV2425-0296
Program: Development Program
Project: Duck Duck Goose
Recipient: Mad Ones Films Pty Ltd
Genre: Psychological thriller
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr/Creator: Ellias Jamieson Brown | Prod: Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan | Wr/Script Editor: Tommy Murphy
Synopsis: Acclaimed author Jeremiah returns to his hometown to write about Prince Wesson, a schoolmate he once bullied. When Prince unexpectedly dies, Jeremiah can't help but further ingratiate himself with the Wesson family – and is unwittingly drawn into their dangerous game.
App ID: DEV2425-0395
Program: Development Program
Project: Judge
Recipient: Songbird Studios
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Creators: Xavier Hazard, Mehhma Malhi | Prod: Louise Smith | EP: Luke Mazzaferro
Synopsis: A group of ambitious legal graduates navigate the halls of justice as the personal staff to Supreme Court judges. Generations collide in open court and behind closed doors as the associates grapple with their newfound power, influence and complicity, ultimately questioning: who are they to judge?
App ID: DEV2425-0396
Program: Development Program
Project: Anything But Fine
Recipient: Mad Ones Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romantic Comedy, YA
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Nick Coyle | Prod: Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan | Script Editor: Erica Harrison
Synopsis: Luca is a promising young dancer who is on the cusp of joining the Australian Ballet. But when he breaks his foot on the eve of his audition, he fears he’ll never dance again. Luckily Jordan, rowing star and captain of his new high school is there to help him pick up the pieces. But is Luca about to have his heart broken all over again?
App ID: DEV2425-0403
Program: Development Program
Project: The Tuscan Cookbook
Recipient: Alexandra Burke
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Katherine Thomson |Prod: Alexandra Burke
Synopsis: The Tuscan Cookbook is a feature adaptation of Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer’s beloved cookbook and journal, set during the cooking school they ran in the hills near Siena in 1997.
App ID: DEV2425-0118
Program: Development Program
Project: New Year's Day
Recipient: Revolver
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Science & Environment
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Victoria Singh Thompson | Prod: Pip Smart | EP: Samantha Lang
Synopsis: Four young women on a New Years Day outing descend into a horrific nightmare.
App ID: DEV2425-0320
Program: Development Program
Project: Dogs of War
Recipient: Bronte Studios
Genre: Action Adventure, Thriller, Horror, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner | Prod: Blake Northfield | Prod: Michelle Krumm
Synopsis: During the brutal winter of 1942, elite Australian sniper Billy Rabbet is given a final chance at redemption by delivering a mysterious package through Nazi-occupied territory to Russian allies. When his unit is ambushed and lost in an eerie, mist-filled forest, they are saved by Nina Koverchenko, a legendary Russian sniper known as "Lady Death." As they push forward, they realize the real threat isn’t just the enemy but something far deadlier: giant wolves stalking them in the darkness. With limited ammo, dwindling numbers, and the relentless creatures closing in, Billy and Nina must outwit both the Nazis and the beasts to complete their mission. As loyalties are tested and sacrifices made, the forest becomes a battleground of man, beast, and war, where only the strongest and most ruthless will survive.
App ID: DEV2425-0253
Program: Development Program
Project: Untitled Feature Project
Recipient: Rosie Lourde
Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Prod/Dir: Rosie Lorde | Script Ed: Lynne Vincent McCarthy
Synopsis: As a once-in-a-century dust storm descends, a woman triggers a vortex in her suburban home that fractures time and her mind, oscillating between a perfect dream-life and a sanity shattering nightmare she was never meant to escape.
App ID: DEV2425-0353
Program: Development Program
Project: The Sense of Smell - Decoding The Language of Life
Recipient: Smith&Nasht
Genre: Science
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documentary One-Off
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir/Prod: Annamaria Talas | Prod: Simon Nasht
Synopsis: From Aristotle to Darwin, smell was dismissed as a primitive, animalistic sense—compared to hearing and vision. Even today, studies show young people would sooner give up their sense of smell than their smartphones. Yet, recent discoveries reveal smell as our most fascinating and misunderstood superpower.
App ID: DEV2425-0049
Program: Development Program
Project: Untitled Project
Recipient: David Ratner
Genre: Contemporary & Social Issues
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documenmtary Series
Key Creatives: Prod: Ben Davies, David Ratner
App ID: DEV2425-0332
Program: Development Program
Project: Road to Venice
Recipient: Illuminate Films Pty Ltd
Genre: Comedy, Arts & Culture, Contemporary & Social Issues
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documentary Feature
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir/Prod: Yaara Bou Melhem | Wr/Dir: Jan Fran
Synopsis: When his selection for the most prestigious art exhibition in the world is spectacularly publicly revoked, Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi goes to Venice in a surrealist journey that even he couldn’t have anticipated.
App ID: DEV2425-0377
Program: Development Program
Project: The Last of the Locals
Recipient: Torchlight Media
Genre: Contemporary & Social Issues, History & Identity, Science & Environment
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documentary Feature
Key Creatives: Pr: Tom Zubrycki, Isabel Darling | Wr/Dir: Isabel Darling,
Synopsis: In a 60 year old ski town built by European post-war immigrants there is a shifting change upon the townsfolk. Those who have lived here for years are grappling with commercialism and progress while yearning for the bygone era. But those newer to town see the value in change, and are part of a movement to bring the village into the 21st century. Stuck in the middle is the resort General Manager Stuart Diver, whose own tragic past in the village leaves him torn between it all.
App ID: DEV2425-0298
Program: Development Program
Project: Sundowner
Recipient: Sanctuary Pictures
Genre: Thriller
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: David Robinson-Smith | Prod: Julie Ryan, Ari Harrison | Script Editor: Alex White | Additional Writer: Jack Clark
Synopsis: In a remote Australian town shadowed by forest and silence, a disgraced journalist becomes obsessed with a serial killer — until a stranger claiming the murders offers an interview that could restore his career.
App ID: DEV2425-0334
Program: Development Program
Project: Working Title
Recipient: Mint Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre: Contemporary & Social Issues, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Factual Series
Key Creatives: Writer: Deborah Richards | Producers: Dan Goldberg & Simon Nasht
Synopsis: To mark the 25th anniversary of the dramatic standoff that triggered an international crisis, ‘TAMPA’ uncovers the minute-by-minute story of a crisis that revealed the best and worst of Australia, and became replicated around the world.
App ID: DEV2425-0387
Program: Development Program
Project: King Dog
Recipient: Jason Stevens Productions
Genre: Action adventure, family
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Steve Worland | Prod:Jason Stevens | Dir: Wayne Blair | 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: DEV2425-0287
Program: Development Program
Project: GriefyAF
Recipient: Angie Fielder
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series
Key Creatives: Wr/Creator/Prod: Angie Fielder | Wr/Cr: Sally Steele | Wr: Beatrix Christian, AP Pobjoy
Synopsis: Newly widowed Tash strives to support her two teenage children through their grief whilst navigating her own. She takes to social media and discovers that her brutal honesty about her grieving experience strikes a chord with followers everywhere. Equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, GriefyAF follows Tash as she experiences the heartache, chaos and catharsis of life after the death of a significant other, whilst becoming a rising internet sensation.
App ID: DEV2425-0244
Program: Development Program
Project: How I Woke Up dead
Recipient: Yolandi Franken
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Ronnie. S Riskalla | Wr: Stephen Davis | Prod: Yolandi Franken
Synopsis: In the beach town of Cliff Rock, Xavier is attacked and dies after being injected with a syringe. In a surreal limbo, he narrates key moments from his life as detectives Mac and King investigate his mysterious death.
App ID: DEV2425-0314
Program: Development Program
Project: Monkey Base
Recipient: SLR Productions
Genre: Action Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr: Joel Slack-Smith | Prod: Suzanne Ryan
Synopsis: Monkey Base follows Erika, a top Space Academy cadet thrust into leadership at a dysfunctional outpost crewed by eccentric animals. As Earth faces annihilation from a giant piece of space debris, Erika must unite her misfit team, expose a galactic conspiracy, and prove she’s more than her famous mother’s legacy.
App ID: DEV2425-0324
Program: Development Program
Project: The Child
Recipient: Goldhawk Productions Pty Ltd
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Brooke Goldfinch | Prod: Leonie Marsh
Synopsis: THE CHILD is a twisty, whimsical melodrama about an enigmatic young mother who tells a 14-year-old girl that she is her daughter - and that she has travelled back in time to help her discover a supernatural power.
App ID: DEV2425-0284
Program: Development Program
Project: Agrippina
Recipient: Blackfella Films Pty. Limited
Genre: Drama
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Amanda Blue | Prod: Darren Dale, Penny Smallacombe
Synopsis: A curious teenage girl bravely escapes the restrictive confines of her migrant suburban community to discover love, her sexuality and acceptance in 1980s queer Sydney. Agrippina is an original explosive exploration of queer Sydney in the 1980s, told through the eyes of our young protagonist, Pina. A coming-of-age story with a visual palette as bold as the Golden Mile in its heyday. The film draws directly from a real lived history to tell the story of this magical but dangerous place and its inhabitants from a uniquely female perspective.
App ID: DEV2425-0303
Program: Development Program
Project: Ngimbalyen
Recipient: Jahvis Loveday
Genre: Action Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Contemporary and Social Issues, History & Identity
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Jahvis Loveday | Prod: Kath Shelper
Synopsis: Four Bundjalung cousins thought they were chasing a record deal - now they’re knee-deep in cursed artefacts, family lore, and a heist that might tear open more than just the past.
App ID: DEV2425-0325
Program: Development Program
Project: Impermanence
Recipient: Mark Gould Productions P/L t/a Bondi Rocks Media
Genre: Action Adventure, Contemporary and Social Issues including social history, Arts and Culture
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Documentary Feature
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Ryan Jasper Walsh | Prod: Mark Gould
Synopsis: In remote Tibet, a young Australian filmmaker risks everything to capture vanishing heritage — until his lens becomes the threat. What begins as a film about Buddhists surviving authoritarianism becomes a deeply personal journey of survival, responsibility, and the ethics of documenting complex cultural conflict.
App ID: DEV2425-0070
Program: Development Program
Project: Fireflies
Recipient: Asia Pacific Pictures
Genre: Drama, Contemporary & Social issues, History & Identity, Sports
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Feature Film
Key Creatives: Wr/Dir: Manjari Makijany | Prod: Emmanuel Pappas, Manjari Makijany, Alan McAlex, Vinati Makijany
Synopsis: After the sudden loss of her champion rower husband, a grieving mother struggles to keep her family together. When her young daughter fears she’s forgetting her father, Pallavi sets out to form an all-women snake boat racing team, challenging tradition, community resistance, and her own self-doubt. As 100 women rise with her on a single boat, Pallavi discovers her own healing, the power of sisterhood and the courage to defy all odds and unites a community in the process.
App ID: DEV2425-0330
Program: Development Program
Project: Anvi's Animals
Recipient: Rolla Entertainment
Genre: Family, Science & Environment
Financial year: 2024/25
Project format: Fiction Series (Short-form)
Key Creatives: Wr: Ray Boseley | Prod: David Wild, Dean Bates | Dir: Mark Alston
Synopsis: ANVI’S ANIMALS follows inquisitive Anvi and her bestie Gulp, a talking gecko, as they have fun and adventures solving everyday problems with inspiration from the animal world.
App ID: DEV2425-0047
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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