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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