10 Western Australian film & TV projects receive Screenwest scripted development funding
Ten projects have received development support through Screenwest’s first round of Scripted Development Investment Funding for the 2021-22 financial year.
The successful projects include feature films about a forbidden wartime romance, a doctor and teenager attempting to survive a post-apocalyptic world, and a young girl’s efforts to save her family’s farm; along with TV series set across a criminal empire in Yawuru country and an inner-city performing arts school.
“We’re thrilled to be supporting these ten imaginative and compelling projects, following an overwhelming number of competitive, high-quality submissions. Congratulations to the filmmaking teams – we look forward to following the development of your screen stories.” said Rikki Lea Bestall, Screenwest CEO.
Scripted Development Investment Funding provides concept development (Stage One) and project development (Stage Two) funding to emerging and experienced Western Australian practitioners who are creating scripted content for all delivery platforms (including theatrical).
Scripted Development Investment Funding Recipients
Letters of Offer have been issued to the following projects.
STAGE ONE
Bull
Format: Feature film
Production Company: Scullface Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Producers: Michael Facey, Judd Tilyard & Liz Tompkins
Director: Chris Richards-Scully
Writer: Richard Hyde
Logline: A retired cage fighter must embrace the monster he once was, to rescue his daughter from persecution in a small country town.
Proclivitas
Format: Feature film
Production Company: Lake Martin Films
Key Creatives:
Producer: Kate Separovich
Writer/Director: Miley Tunnecliffe
Logline: A grieving woman notices that the changes in her husband’s personality after a near fatal accident are beginning to manifest in a menacing dark presence surrounding them.
Broken Lives
Format: 6 x 1 hour TV series
Production Company: Factor 30 Films Pty Ltd & No Small Parts Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Producers: Melissa Kelly, Luke Clayson, Sarah Pass & Ryan Hodgson
Writer: Kelly Lefever
Logline: Estelle Blackburn stares down a corrupt justice system, survives attempts on her life and profiles one of Australia’s most infamous serial killers in an attempt to exonerate two men convicted of murders they didn’t commit.
Shame 2022
Format: 4 x 50 minute TV series
Production Company: Feisty Dame Productions Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Producers: Tania Chambers & Paul Barron
Writers: Alexa Wyatt & Sarah Smith
Logline: Lawyer Asta Cadell arrives in a country town and becomes involved with the victim of a sexual assault, only to discover that the town hides a deeper and darker secret.
The Other War
Format: Feature film
Key Creatives:
Executive Producer: Jessica de Gouw
Executive Producer/Writer: Sarah Walker
Co-Producer: Nicole La Bianca
Logline: When the Australian Women’s Land Army sends a misfit woman to fill in for a war-absent husband on a remote property in Western Australia, it ignites an epic forbidden love story.
Sugarland
Format: 8 x 1 hour TV series
Production Company: Ramu Productions Pty Ltd & See Pictures Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Producers: Jodie Bell & Jamie Hilton
Writers: Jub Clerc & Dot West
Logline: Set deep in Yawuru land, Lionel ‘Sugar’ Mitchell, a brutal criminal and local lawman, serves his matriarchal billion-dollar empire in the fight against government and corporate wolves.
STAGE TWO
The Quiet
Format: Feature film
Production Company: Carver Films Pty Ltd & LuckyChap Entertainment
Key Creatives:
Producers: Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara & Mark Hopkins
Director: Ben Young
Writers: Ben Young & Kelly Lefever
Logline: When newlywed Lily arrives in an isolated Australian town in the late 1800’s, she forms an unlikely allegiance with a stranger in order to take control of her own destiny.
Newtown
Format: 10 x 45 minute TV series
Production Company: Komixx Entertainment Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Executive Producer/Series Producer: Amanda Morrison
Executive Producer: Edward Glauser
Creators: Maya Cumming (MAY-A) & Matt Emsell
Writers: Heather Wilson, Cassandra Nguyen & Ceinwan Langley
Logline: Newtown is a coming-of-age drama about a group of best friends attending a riotous inner city performing arts school.
Runt
Format: Feature film
Production Company: See Pictures Pty Ltd
Key Creatives:
Producers: Cody Greenwood & Jamie Hilton
Director: John Sheedy
Writer: Craig Silvey
Logline: In the country town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie Shearer and her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt, try to save their family’s farm by winning the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London.
The Jesus Machine
Format: Feature film
Key Creatives:
Producers: Ian Booth & Jessica Parker
Executive Producer: Stephen Langsford
Writer/Director: David Vincent Smith
Logline: In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, a doctor smuggles away an augmented teenage girl who was designed to save the planet, in exchange for help to find her missing daughter.
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