Initiatives
Our initiatives include production, project development and skills development programs, designed to support Western Australian practitioners and companies.
Elevate
Applications close Monday, 19 September 2022 at 5:00pm AWST.
Elevate invests in the professional skills development of our most talented emerging filmmakers who are committed to a career in film and television, by providing funds to produce a scripted short form project – through either Elevate30 or Elevate70.
ABC Factual Formats Initiative
Applications are now closed.
Screenwest and ABC Factual and Culture have partnered for an initiative that will invite WA producers to create new returnable, half hour format series with broad audience appeal for ABC TV and ABC iview. This initiative seeks to co-develop up to three ideas, with the opportunity for at least one project to go into production in late 2022 – early 2023.
Read the Screenwest Terms of Trade
Industry Enhancement Program
Applications are now closed.
The aim of the Industry Enhancement Program is to build a more sustainable Western Australian screen industry, by increasing the production levels in Western Australia and by leveraging international and national funding into the State.
Read the Screenwest Terms of Trade
WA Reflections
Applications close Monday, 4 July 2022 at 5:00pm AWST.
A partnership between The State Library of WA and Screenwest, WA Reflections is a capacity building initiative will enable up to six, early to mid-career Western Australian filmmaking teams to produce documentary films of up to five minutes in duration.
SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator
Applications are now closed.
The SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator is a nationwide initiative from SBS in partnership with Screen Australia, state and territory agencies, aiming to promote inclusion among Australian screenwriting talent and to provide significant work experience in drama production to writers with lived experiences that have been underrepresented in the sector.
West Coast Visions
Applications are now closed.
West Coast Visions is a screen industry development program that provides production funding of $750,000 to low budget features that are to be produced in WA. Its primary goal is to offer first time feature film directors their first theatrical feature film credit.
Last Days of the Space Age - Screenwest Professional Skills Development Program
Applications are now closed.
Screenwest and Princess Pictures are supporting up to four Western Australian screen professionals to further their careers through a skills development opportunity in NSW on Last Days of the Space Age for Disney+.
Read the Screenwest Terms of Trade
Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge
Applications are now closed.
Epic Games and Screenwest are looking for new voices and talent from across the film, TV and games sectors eager to engage with new, innovative technologies and alternate methods of storytelling. WA creators can apply for up to $50,000 in production funding to create an animated short film of up to five minutes using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 software.