- Funding Decisions 2007-2008
- Attachment to a Production
- Business Support
- Cash Flow Facility
- Digital Media Prototyping
- Digital Media Scoping
- Factual Development
- Fiction Development
- International Festival Attendance
- International Market Attendance
- Internship with a Company
- Production Investment
- Public Screen Event Program
- Screen Industry Activity Program
- Slate Funding
June 2008
Title: Sovereignty
Applicant: Liz Burke
Writer: Helen Newman
Producer: Liz Burke
Other: Bill Murphy (Editor)
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script
Synopsis: Sovereignty works with two indigenous artists and brothers to examine the past, present and future of indigenous life, art and politics.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (producer) 75470-700 - $12,000
Title: To Be Wild
Applicant: Princess Pictures
Writer/Researcher: Robyn Hughan
Producer: Laura Waters
Director: David Swann
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script (+ Video Teaser)
Synopsis: To Be Wild is a hybrid wildlife-comedy series presented by two genuinely hilarious Canadian wildlife experts who journey to Australia to investigate the ugliest and sometimes the deadliest bugs, reptiles and other wildlife that we have become accustomed to in our cities, by the beach, in the bush, in the alps, in the desert and in the tropics, whilst simultaneously encountering a massive cultural clash with the local human inhabitants.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (producer) 75470-700 - $15,000
Title: Will Dyson's War
Applicant: Mish Armstrong
Writer: Peter Luby
Producer: Mish Armstrong
Director: Peter Luby
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script
Synopsis: The story of Will Dyson, the radical Australian artist who rose to fame as "the greatest living cartoonist" in Britain, and the tragic impact on his life when he became Official War Artist in the trenches of the Western Front.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (producer) 75470-700 - $13,000
Title: Lentil as Anything - Food for the Soul
Applicant: Greg Williams
Writer: Greg Williams
Producer: Kylie Bryant
Current Stage: Outline
Proposed Stage: Treatment
Synopsis: One man's quest to find out if a vegetarian restaurant with no prices can change the world - one meal at a time.
Approved Program: Factual Television Outline to Treatment (writer/researcher) 75455-700 - $5,000
Title: Anorexia Nervosa 101
Applicant: Princess Pictures
Writer: Sancia Robinson
Producer: Yael Bergman
Script Editor: Mark Atkin
Researcher: Sancia Robinson
Other: Laura Waters (EP)
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script
Synopsis: The world of girls is in crisis - Anorexia Nervosa is now affecting as many as one in a hundred young women in Australia, so Sancia Robinson, who has rare insight into this condition as a survivor of this condition, takes us into their world to investigate what is going wrong and what can be done about it.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (producer) 75470-700 - $12,000
Title: 6 Days in a Leaky Boat - The Hung Le Story
Applicant: Big & Little Films
Writer: Hung Le
Producers: Michael McMahon & Tony Ayres
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script
Synopsis: A one hour documentary which interweaves the history of Australia's first 'boat people', the Vietnamese migrants who came to Australia after the fall of the Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war, with stand up comic's Hung Le's personal family story.
Approved Program: Factual Feature Film Advanced Treatment or Script 75435-700 - $12,000
Title: The Martin Grant Project
Applicant: Ghost Pictures Pty Ltd
Writer: Lynn-Maree Milburn
Producer: Andrew De Groot & Lynn-Maree Milburn
Script Editor: Sophie Edelstein
Director: Lynn-Maree Milburn
Other: Richard Lowenstein (Executive Producer)
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment/Script
Synopsis: Martin Grant, a young fashion genius with a big vision, escapes a remote Australian suburb and conquers Paris.
Approved Program: Factual Feature Film Advanced Treatment or Script 75435-700 - $12,000
March 2008
Title: On Television
Production Type: 4 x 1 hour series
Applicant: Marcus Westbury
Writer: Marcus Westbury
Researcher: Marcus Westbury
Current Stage: Outline
Proposed Stage: Treatment
Synopsis: In this multi part series broadcaster, media junkie, troublemaker and closet couch potato Marcus Westbury goes on a critical search for 'the culture of television'. Not content with turning on the TV asking what's on and reviewing it, in this series Marcus Westbury tries to find out why what is on is on. On television takes a critical and amusing look at the hidden forces that shape the most powerful cultural forces in the universe: formats, regulations, media ownership, money as well as the creative individuals working with and against these forces both in Australia and around the world.
Approved Program: Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Writer/Researcher) - $2,500
Title: John Friedrich: Catch Me If You Can
Production Type: 55 min single documentary
Applicant: Stella Motion Pictures Pty Ltd
Writer: Philippe Charluet
Producer: Philippe Charluet
Script Editor: David Tiley
Director: Philippe Charluet
Researcher: Philippe Charluet
Research Assistant: Marg McCormack
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: John Friedrich, a man without a past who built a $300 million search-and-rescue empire by borrowing on the contents of empty boxes
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Producer) - $15,000
Title: Frank Hardy vs John Wren: The Battle for History
Production Type: 55 min single documentary
Applicant: Film Art Doco Pty Ltd
Writer: Daryl Dellora
Producer: Sue Maslin
Director: Daryl Dellora
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: Hardy will be an 55-minute documentary based on the critically acclaimed biography, Frank Hardy by Jenny Hocking. It is a fascinating story about the life of one of Australia's most controversial and compelling literary figures from the second half of the twentieth century. It is not just an extraordinary romp with a real and unique character but also a powerful and dramatic whodunit surrounding the criminal libel case centred on Hardy's first great literary masterpiece, Power Without Glory.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Producer) - $13,000
Title: Tom Wills
Production Type: 2 x 1 hour series
Applicant: Jason Byrne Productions
Writers: Jamie Browne and Ian Foster
Producer: Jason Byrne
Script Editor: Kris Mrksa
Director: Maurice Dowd
Current Stage: Treatment
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: The quest for an Australian identity reflected through the epic Australian story of Tom Wills: 19ty Century sporting icon, father of Australian Rules Football, emancipist, larrikin, delusional alcoholic and fallen hero. In life and death Wills is the subject of great controversy and conflict. His contribution to the genisis of Australian Rules Football, his character and the influence of Aboriginal Football are hotly contested. Through meticulous recreation of sports mad colonial Melbourne and the men that controlled its sporting culture the truth will emerge. A compelling 'Boys Own Adventure' that details our history of sport, racism and self worth.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Producer) - $12,000
Title: A Journal of Everyday Events
Production Type: 30 min single documentary
Applicant: Second Banana Films
Writer: Steve French
Director (Video Teaser): Steve Franch
Researcher: Steve French
Current Stage: Outline
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: Henry Morgan witnessed brutal murder at the start of his trek to the Victorian Goldfields. While daily life was dull, it was punctuated by extreme events such as this, which are recorded faithfully in Morgan's daily diary, and brought to screen in a rich tapestry of photographs and animation. Morgan walks from Sydney to Beechworth, makes and loses several fortunes, and gradually builds a life as a goldfields carpenter. He woos a young lady for years, then roughly discards her, but wins her back a year later, marries her and builds not only a family, but also the historic bridges and road that cross the High Plains - his greatest legacy.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Writer/Researcher) - $12,500
Title: Degenerates and Perverts
Production Type: 55 min single documentary
Applicant: Amber Films
Writers: Monique Schwarz and Elaine Berkowitz
Producers: Monique Schwarz and Elaine Berkowitz
Director: Monique Schwarz
Current Stage: Developed Outline
Proposed Stage: Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: A historical documentary which uses the 1939 Herald Art Exhibition of British and French art as a springboard to examine the clash between modern and the traditional social values in Australia just before the outbreak of World War II. This exhibition was brought to Australia by Sir Keith Murdoch, amidst venomous opposition from James Mc Donald, the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria and the painter and trustee of the Gallery of NSW, Lionel Lindsay.
Approved Program: Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Producer) - $5,000
February 2008
HEADLANDS #2A Terrorist in the Family
Production Type, 55 min/feature length single documentary
Applicant (i), Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) HEADLANDS 2008 Development Workshop
Applicant (ii), 360 Degrees Pty Ltd
Current Stage, Treatment
Proposed Stage, Advanced Treatment or Script
Synopsis: The documentary tells the story of how an Australian/Lebanese family deals with the discovery that a teenage member has been charged with being a suicide bomber.
Program, Factual Feature Film Advanced Treatment or Script, $21,666
Funding Decision Date, 13th February 2008
December 2007
Circle of Justice
Production Type, 6 x 30 min TV series
Applicant, Rebel Films Pty Ltd
Current Stage, Outline
Proposed Stage, Treatment
Program, Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Producer), $8,000
Synopsis: At Australia's first Neighbourhood Justice Centre, young offenders come face to face with their victims in a radical program to prevent crime.
Funding Decision Date, 5th December 2007
Drugs, Guns, Spooks and Shady Deals - The Nugan Hand Bank
Production Type, 60 min single documentary
Applicant, Vue Pty Ltd
Current Stage, Advanced Treatment
Proposed Stage, Draft Script
Program, Factual Television Advance Treatment or Script (Producer), $10,000
Synopsis: A dodgy lawyer and a sharp land dealer use an act of fraud to found a bank that services Australia's drug lords and the CIA; it will foster Australia's first heroin epidemic in over 50 years, supply guns to Anglola, launder vast amounts of cash but ultimately it will collapse in a stinking heap - and 2 out of 3 of the prime protagonists will get away scot-free.
Funding Decision Date, 5th December 2007
Jockey School
Production Type, 4 x 30 min TV series
Applicant, Liz Burke
Current Stage, Outline
Proposed Stage, Treatment
Program, Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Producer), $6,000
Synopsis: Jockey School is a 4 x half series which follows fortunes of a group of young apprentice jockeys as they battle for success in the exciting, but ruthless world of horseracing. We will follow a desperate group of young jockeys as they battle to succeed. They have to face danger each time they ride in a race, starve themselves to kepp their weight down and work relentlessly long, gruelling hours. Yet they love what they do. Follow us as we immerse you in a world of horseracing and see who wins fame and fortune.
Funding Decision Date, 5th December 2007
Mad as Hell: The Peter Finch Story
Production Type, 55 min single documentary
Applicant, Lowlands Media Pty Ltd
Current Stage, Outline
Proposed Stage, Treatment
Program, Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Producer), $9,000
Synopsis: Mad as Hell is the first documentary to map the significance and legacy of Academy Award winning Australian Actor Peter Finch's lif and career.
Funding Decision Date, 5th December 2007
Unnatural Selection - A History of Disability
Production Type, 3 x 1 hr TV series
Applicant, Sarah Barton
Current Stage, Outline
Proposed Stage, Treatment
Program, Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Writer/Researcher), $8,000
Secondary Components, Mentorship for Sarah Barton with Beth Frey (Circe Films), $3,000
Synopsis: Cretins, cripples, morons, spastics, idiots, dwarfs, mutes and freaks. Vision impaired, hearing impaired, short statured, - people with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, acquired brain injury. The language of dsability has changed alot but how far have we really come in terms of how people with disabilities live in our society? Unnatural Selection - A History of Disability explores changes in social and medical attitudes towards disability across time and place.
Funding Decision Date, 5th December 2007
September 2007
Swing By Sailor
Production Type, 4 x 30 min. series
Applicant, Mish Armstrong
Current Stage, Treatment
Proposed Stage, Advanced treatment/script
Program, Factual Television Advanced Treatment or Script (Producer), $10,000
Synopsis: Swing by Sailor is a 4 x half hour series set in the exciting and traumatic atmosphere of World War II. It tells the unique and unknown story of the Australian war brides who journeyed to the United Kingdom on the British aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, to reunite with their British servicemen husbands after the war.
Funding Decision Date, Wednesday 5th September 2007
A Better World
Production Type, 50 min. single project
Applicant, Flying Fish Films Pty Ltd
Current Stage, Outline
Proposed Stage, Treatment
Program, Factual Television Outline to Treatment (Producer), $7,000
Synopsis: The life and times of a Greek migrant who became the first person of non-English speaking background to enter Australian politics; a true believer and a man of the people, who fought for a 'better world' for all.
Funding Decision Date, Wednesday 5th September 2007
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