Six filmmaking teams receive Elevate funding

Screenwest is pleased to announce that six WA filmmaking teams have been selected to each produce a scripted short form project through Elevate, a professional skills development initiative.

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.

To be executive produced by Natalie Bell, currently Head of Production at Prospero Productions, the six projects include scripted stories about an unconventional First Nations hero, 2010-era blogging, house-sitting gone wrong, a young man confronting his loss of sight, the journey of a woman fighting to protect her home and a young Yanyuwa warrior.

“This was an extremely competitive round – congratulations to the six filmmaking teams, whose distinctive and imaginative projects will no doubt serve as calling cards and provide incredible upskilling opportunities. We look forward to seeing the shorts come to life in 2023.” said Rikki Lea Bestall, Screenwest CEO.

Elevate Funding Recipients

2010

• Format: Short series
• Production Company: Not a Phase
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Stephanie Cole
  • Writer/Director: Sally Davies
• Logline: Set in the hipster era of 2010, blogger alias @girlslikegirls gets more than she bargains for when she accidentally declares to her high school peers she is a lesbian.

Farm Block A67

• Format: Short film
• Production Company: Something Productions
• Key Creatives:
  • Co-Writer/Producer: Nicholas Harle
  • Co-Writer/Co-Director: Simone Detourbet
  • Co-Director: Jason Haji-Ali
• Logline: What would you do to protect the sacred place you call home? Just ask Ari, a young woman hell bent on saving her ‘riwi’ (home).

Joan

• Format: Short film
• Production Company: New Thing Productions
• Key Creatives:
  • Producers: Priscilla-Anne Jacob & Stephanie Davis
  • Writer/Director: Emma Jackson
• Logline: After discovering her much-loved rescue dog, Brian, has committed an unforgivable house-sitting crime, Joan must go to ridiculous lengths to cover his tracks.

Marlu Man

• Format: Short film
• Production Company: Goguljar Yok
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Brooke Collard
  • Writer/Director: Zac James
• Logline: The people needed a hero. They got… Marlu Man.

Spear and Musket

• Format: Short film
• Production Company: Ramu Productions
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Jodie Bell
  • Writer/Director: Michael Bonner
• Logline: Djaru is a young Yanyuwa warrior on the path to becoming a man. But can his traditional ways survive what is coming?

The Roadhouse Blues

• Format: Short film
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Alzbeta Rekosh
  • Writer/Co-Director: Tony Sarre
  • Co-Director: Lincoln Mackinnon
• Logline: Stranded at an abandoned roadhouse, a legally blind young man must overcome his pride if he is to find help and survive.

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