Film Victoria
Acquitting your development funding
As well as delivering your script and associated acquittal documents, you’ll need to provide documents detailing the development process you have just undertaken.
These documents are designed to assist us in understanding the work you’ve done, and in tailoring further development for your project. They are also used to plan Film Victoria's broader script development strategies, program reviews and script events for all practitioners. They are read and analysed in detail by the Script Development department and are not just a contractual tick-box requirement.
Please note: these documents will be carefully assessed before payments are made, and Film Victoria reserves the right to withhold payment until these deliverables are assessed as satisfactory.
Reporting Template required for all acquittals
Budget Acquittal Delivery Template (141KB)
Writer's Delivery Report Template (141KB)
Producer's Delivery Report Template (134KB)
Fiction - Feature Film Reporting Obligations
Writers and producers will be required to submit the following deliverables:
- One sentence project pitch
- One paragraph (three to four line) synopsis
- Writer and/or producer's narrative report on development
- Script editor's narrative report on development
- Next stage development plan
- Acquittal of expenditure (how the investment funds were spent)
- Market overview and commercialisation plan (based on further research and identifying audience, market, technical and creative elements)
and
Script (to Treatment or Draft stage as applicable)
Teaser, casting details, workshop outcomes, budget, schedule and associated materials (for Final Stage Development only or as applicable)
Fiction - Television Reporting Obligations
Applicants will be required to submit the following deliverables:
- Revised one sentence project pitch
- Revised one paragraph (3-4 line) synopsis
- Writer's narrative report on development
- Script editor/story consultant's narrative report on development
- Next stage development plan
- Acquittal of expenditure (how the investment funds were spent)
- Market overview & commercialisation plan (based on further research and identifying audience, market, technical and creative elements)
- Concept Document OR Bible and/or Script
and
Producer's narrative report on development (if applicable)
Bible and Draft scripts (if applicable)
Teaser, casting details, workshop outcomes, budget, schedule and associated materials (as applicable)
Repayment of our investment
(Fiction - Feature Film & Fiction - Television)
Repayment of our development investment together with a 10% premium is payable when principal photography commences on the project.
In addition we are entitled to a share of net profits that is calculated on the amount of our investment as follows:
| Total development investment | Film Victoria Entitlement |
|---|---|
| up to $30,000 | 0.5% of Net Profits |
| between $30,001 and $50,000 | 1% of Net Profits |
| between $50,001 and $100,000 | 1.5% of Net Profits |
| over $100,001 | 2% of Net Profits |
Successful applicants to these programs will be required to enter into a contract with us. This contract will specify what you'll need to deliver to access your payments.
Click here to read more about our contracting process
