Screenwest Announces Feature Track Funding for Three New Exciting Feature Films!
Screenwest is pleased to announce three projects will receive development funding support through...
Screenwest is pleased to announce three projects will receive development funding support through the latest Feature Track: Scripted Development Funding round.
A rag-tag gang of grannies, the futuristic sport of drone racing and a horror story inspired by an Indigenous myth, appear within the new creative feature projects from production companies Veerhuis Pictures, WBMC and Galactic Baby.
Screenwest Drama Development Manager, Barbara Connell said, “I was so impressed to read these original and captivating stories through this recent Feature Track funding round. All three teams have amazing potential to not only explore these ideas further but also to develop these stories into strong, market-ready projects.”
Screenwest CEO Willie Rowe explained, “It has been so important that the industry keeps developing new content and continues to tell stories from a unique Western Australian perspective. These new projects have the potential to move into production and win the hearts of global audiences.”
For more information about the funded projects, read on!
Feature Track Funding Recipients
Letters of Offer have been issued to the following projects.
A Min Min Story
- Format: Feature Film
- Production Company: Galactic Baby
- Key Creatives: Producer Lauren Elliott, Writers Kodie Bedford and Bjorn Stewart
Synopsis: Rose and her children go on a camping trip for the long weekend, but the bush is a strange place that slowly devolves the family into psychotic madness as they deal with their own demons and monsters. Stories about Min Min lights can be found in Aboriginal myths predating European settlement and have since become part of wider Australian folklore. According to folklore, the lights sometimes follow or approach people, and anyone who chases and catches the lights will never return to tell the tale.
G.R.A.N.S
- Format: Feature Film
- Production Company: Veerhuis Pictures
- Key Creatives: Producer Katherine Marmion, Producer Chris Veerhuis and Writer Harriet Riley
Synopsis: A ragtag gang of grandmas unite to stop a mining company that’s fracking for gas in their town.
Drone Racers
- Format: Feature Film
- Production Company: WBMC
- Key Creatives: Producer Aidan O’Bryan, Producer Janelle Landers, Producer Jess Mitchell, Writer Jules Duncan and Script Editor/Exec Gerald Lillywhite.
Synopsis: An unruly tween discovers a talent for the fun, futuristic sport of drone racing. By learning to work as a team with her tech-nerd cousin, she takes her mad skills from the beaches, bush and burbs of their outback town, all the way to the world championships.
Feature Track: Scripted Development Fund
Feature Film Development Track provides project development funding to Western Australian scripted features at various milestones for up to one year.
Successful applicants will work toward quality, distinctive, feature film projects with strong Western Australian outcomes that are capable of reaching their target audience and attracting further investment and/or market interest.
Projects are assessed at each milestone by a panel including the relevant Screenwest Project Manager and external industry experts. Feedback will be provided to successful applicants at each assessment/ milestone stage.
All program guidelines are to be read in conjunction with Screenwest’s Terms of Trade.
More information on this fund is available on the Development Funding page of the Screenwest website.
Contact Screenwest
T: +61 8 6169 2100
E: info@screenwest.com.au
www.screenwest.com.au
www.filminwesternaustralia.com.au
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