Screenwest Announces Funding for Elevate and Elevate+ Projects
Screenwest Announces Funding for Elevate and Elevate+ Projects
Screenwest is pleased to announce...
Screenwest Announces Funding for Elevate and Elevate+ Projects
Screenwest is pleased to announce five projects will receive funding through the updated Elevate and Elevate+ funding round.
This year’s successful Elevate projects will bring new stories to screen, including: a seagull looking for love; an exploration of human/android intimacy; the journey of a young woman seeking to balance, aspiration and obligation; an exploration of Noongar spirituality; and a meditation on the complexities of raising an infant storm cloud.
The Elevate program has enabled past filmmakers to create a project which has become a calling card for mid-career Western Australian practitioners. It is envisaged that the new structure in 2020 will create stronger pathways to production and further professional development in addition to ensuring the presentation of high quality Western Australian stories on screen.
The projects supported through Screenwest’s capability development program will undertake a high-level script and project development period to ultimately ready them for production. The development period also will see the teams gain access to specialised workshops and for the first time the successful Elevate+ funding recipients will receive development funding for an attached long form project.
Screenwest Interim Talent Development Manager Chantal Chateauneuf said, “We are incredibly excited to announce the recipients of this enhanced funding program. The teams will uncover and present unique and powerful stories and will have a great opportunity to hone their skills and learn from industry professionals along the way.”
“The incredible range of the stories funded speaks to the creativity of the teams and we are thrilled to be able to support them,” commented Barbara Connell, Drama Development Manager.
For more information regarding the successful projects read on!
Elevate Recipients
Letters of Offer have been issued to the following projects.
I’m Not a Nurse
- Format: Short Film
- Production Company: SONA Images
- Key Creatives: Writer/Director Jessica Bailey, Producer Brooke Batka
Synopsis: A young African immigrant, Oma, is torn between her dreams of becoming a filmmaker, and the financial pressures to provide for her family back home.
Touch
- Format: Short Film
- Production Company: Screen Queen Productions
- Key Creatives: Producer Danielle Reston and Writer/Director Jennie Feyen
Synopsis: Esme struggles with a fear of intimacy and feels cut off from the world. To learn how to trust again, she enters into a treatment program involving an android.
Elevate+ Recipients
Raising Thunder
- Format: Short Film
- Production Company: Sandbox Productions
- Key Creatives: Producer Jasmine Leivers, Writer Jesse Laurie, Director Kaleb McKenna and Producer Mentor Tenille Kennedy
Synopsis: A young farm girl must raise an infant storm cloud to catch its lightning in a bottle.
Wirnitj
- Format: Short Film
- Production Company: Komixx Entertainment
- Key Creatives: Writer/Director Karla Hart
Synopsis: Aden knows that somehow, he’s the reason the stones are falling… and that he’ll need to master this dark power to save Joyce and right the spiritual wrongs that started with his mother’s death.
Bird Drone
- Format: Animated Short Film
- Key Creatives: Producer Hannah Ngo, Director Radheya Jegatheva, Writer Clare Toonen
Synopsis: A lonely seagull looking for love struggles to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
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