Funding & Support

Screen NSW Development funding supports writers and producers to develop fiction or unscripted (documentary) and online projects with distinctive ideas and ambitious stories.

The Screen and Digital Games Travel Fund supports NSW screen and digital games practitioners with travel costs related to key domestic and international events including festivals, markets, conventions, conferences, awards and industry trade missions.

Screen NSW and PAX Australia are offering up to 10 NSW-based independent game developers the opportunity to receive funding support to exhibit their digital game at PAX Australia in Melbourne 9-11 October 2026.

The Pathways Development Program is a competitive Screen NSW initiative that supports emerging writers with disability to develop original long-form screen projects to a pitch-ready stage

The IP in Motion Fund will wholly or partly reimburse, up to $5,000, a screen and digital games producers’ cost to option original intellectual property (IP) from NSW-based creators from Screen NSW Priority Areas.

Targeted at emerging and small-medium enterprise digital game creators, the fund will provide a grant of up to $30,000 for early-stage game development.

Screen NSW has opened a competitive market travel grant to support a limited number of experienced NSW digital games practitioners to attend Gamescom 2026 being held in Cologne, Germany, from 26-30 August 2026.

The Short to Feature Fast Track Initiative combines funding for the production of a short film or proof of concept, as well as script development funds for a low budget feature film.