Special Initiatives
Our initiatives include production, project development and skills development programs, designed to support Western Australian practitioners and companies.
Matched Scripted TV Production Fund
Applications close Monday, 28 April 2025 at 5:00pm AWST.
The new one-off matched grant initiative will provide up to $2,000,000 production funding for scripted television series that will be made in Western Australia. Screenwest will provide up to $2,000,000 in production grant funding per project, matched with an Australian broadcaster or streaming platform licence fee.
West Coast Visions – Documentary
Applications open July 2025.
West Coast Visions – Documentary is designed to uncover, inspire and develop talented Western Australian filmmaking teams with a distinctive vision, providing them with up to $500,000 production funding for a director’s debut feature length documentary film that will be made in Western Australia.
West Coast Visions 2025
Applications are now closed.
West Coast Visions is a special initiative designed by Screenwest to uncover, inspire and develop talented and motivated WA filmmakers with distinctive visions, providing them with up to $1,000,000 production funding to produce their debut feature film in Western Australia.
Proper Loved Up
Applications are now closed.
This new romantic comedy short film initiative will support up to eight First Nations teams nationwide, helping them bring fresh, exciting Indigenous stories to the screen. Supported by Screen Australia’s First Nations Department in partnership with ABC, NITV, Screenwest, Screen Territory, Screen Queensland, Screen Tasmania, VicScreen, Screen NSW and Screen Canberra.
WA Reflections
Applications are now closed.
WA Reflections is a capacity building initiative for early to mid-career Western Australian filmmaking teams. Selected teams receive up to $25,000 production funding per project to produce a short documentary film (maximum seven minutes duration), creatively utilising items from the State Library’s archive collection.
Feature Navigator
Applications are now closed.
This scripted feature film development initiative is for writers, directors and/or producers at any career level with feature film concepts that can be made in WA. Up to six WA teams and/or individuals will be selected to participate in workshops with leading industry feature film creatives.
First Nations VR Truth-Telling Documentary Initiative
Stage Two applications are closed.
The First Nations VR Documentary Initiative is a special initiative designed to uncover distinctive WA First Nations voices, support their career progression and enable practitioners to explore new story-telling mediums and markets. The initiative will take place over three stages, starting with a compulsory online workshop on 4 October 2024.
Producer Talent Accelerator
Applications are now closed.
The year-long skills development program will see an early-to-mid career WA producer receiving up to $100,000 to expand their creative development skills and industry experience, bridge the gap between their ideas and the market and grow their industry contacts.
AFTRS Production Accounting Intensive
Applications are now closed.
Screenwest and AFTRS are offering one WA practitioner a complimentary spot in the AFTRS Production Accounting Intensive, taking place in Perth in September 2024. The course will provide the knowledge and skills required for a career as a Production Accountant – a role much in demand in the screen industry.