Funding Approvals
2023-2024 Production funding

JUNE 2024

ZAC POWER
Flying Bark Productions Pty Ltd and Cheeky Little Media Pty Ltd
Genre Action Adventure, Comedy, Family
Directors Alexs Stadermann, David Webster
Writers Fin Edquist, John Armstrong, Lawrence Leung, Erica Harrison
Producers/Executive Producers Barbara Stephen, Leah James, Patrick Egerton, Celine Goetz
Synopsis Zac Power’s position as the top teenage spy is compromised after a brilliant new agent arrives. When his recklessness allows an ostentatious supervillain to steal a high-tech weapon, Zac is forced to confront his own flaws and team up with his rival. Zac Power is a Co-Production between Flying Bark Productions and Cheeky Little Media.

May 2024

SACCHARINE
Carver Films Pty Ltd
Genre Psychological horror
Writer/Director Natalie Erika James
Producers Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw, Natalie Erika James
Distributor Maslow Entertainment
International Sales XYZ Films
Synopsis A lovelorn medical student becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.

LOVE ADJACENT
KWFilms and Aspect Entertainment
Genre Romantic Comedy
Director Louise Alston
Writers Sarah Mayberry, Christopher Gist
Producers Kate Whitbread, Spencer McLaren
Distributor Umbrella Entertainment
International Sales Film Seekers
Synopsis When a food critic’s review causes a top chef’s restaurant to go under, he has to start again from scratch. But when her sister’s wedding is at risk of ruin, he’s the only one who can save it. Can either of them swallow their pride?

POSTHUMOUS
Imposter Syndrome Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Horror
Director Josh Tanner
Writers Josh Tanner, Jade van der Lei
Producers Jade van der Lei, Josh Tanner
Executive Producer Joel Anderson
Distributor Kismet Movies
International Sales TBA
Synopsis With her life falling apart, a woman returns to her family home and estranged father desperately seeking comfort, but the discovery of a mysterious videotape threatens to undo everything she knew about her long-deceased mother’s passing and unleash an unimaginable horror.

APRIL 2024

OVERTURE
Ambience Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer/Director Bruce Beresford
Producers Michael Boughen (Produced by), Matthew Street (Produced by), Kelvin Munro
Distributor Sony Pictures Releasing Pty Ltd
International Sales Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
Synopsis Stephen Seary, a charismatic successful stage designer returns to Australia to visit his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into a frustrating and sometimes quirky challenge as family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his curmudgeonly father, unresolved conflicts with long-forgotten antagonists, romantic interludes, and the presence of an annoying sister make his return to Europe and the opera he has contracted to design increasingly problematic.

January 2024

THE BONE SPARROW
Carver Films Pty Ltd
Genre Young Adult, Older Family
Director Kim Mordaunt
Writer Alex McDiarmid
Producers Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw
Distributor Kismet Movies
International Sales Bankside Films
Synopsis Subi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life behind a fence.
Funding for this project was revoked in March 2025.

FIRST LIGHT
Majella Productions PTY LTD
Genre Drama
Writer/Director James J. Robinson
Producers Gabrielle Pearson, Jane Pe Aguirre, Christelle Dychangco
Executive Producers Virginia Whitwell, Nick Batzias
Distributor Bonsai Films
International Sales Independent Entertainment
Synopsis In the remote mountains above the Philippines, an elderly nun finds herself at a spiritual crossroads after witnessing the untimely death of a young construction worker.

November 2023

RED ROCK RUN
Tama Films Pty Ltd
Genre Family
Director Cathy Randall
Writer Meg Shields
Producer Miriam Stein
Distributor Icon Film Distribution
International Sales Parkland Pictures
Synopsis When Lucy (10) is banned from competing in regional athletic trials, she protests by entering the first kids’ team in an outback marathon race, the Red Rock Run.

JIMPA
Closer Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Sophie Hyde
Writers Sophie Hyde, Matthew Cormack
Producers Liam Heyen, Marleen Slot, Sophie Hyde, Bryan Mason
Co-Producer Cyna Strachan
Executive Producer Sue Maslin AO, Aud Mason-Hyde, Troy Lum, Ester Harding, Michael Agar
Distributor Kismet, The Unquiet Collective
International Sales Protagonist Pictures, CAA
Synopsis Film director Hannah and her non-binary teenager Frances travel to Amsterdam to visit Frances' beloved gay grandfather Jim ("Jim-pa"). When Frances yearns to stay with Jim for their final year of school, Hannah must reconsider her beliefs about parenting and confront old stories about her relationship with her father.

October 2023

SPIT
Tracking Films Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama, Crime
Director Jonathan Teplitzky
Writer Chris Nyst
Producers Greg Duffy, Trish Lake, Felicity McVay, David Wenham
Consultants Faramarz K-Rahber, Sofya Gollan
Distributor Transmission Films
International Sales Moviehouse Entertainment
Synopsis In the sequel to the award-winning crime comedy, Gettin’ Square, ex-junkie John Spitieri returns to Australia, only to find himself locked up in an Immigration Detention Centre with a massive target on his back, as old enemies come looking for him, determined to settle old scores.

ONE MORE SHOT
Truce Films Pty Ltd and GoodThing Productions
Genre Comedy
Director Nicholas Clifford
Writers Alice Foulcher, Gregory Erdstein
Producers Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, Jim Wright, Elise Trenorden
Distributor Madman Entertainment
International Sales TBA 
Synopsis New Year’s Eve, 1999. Minnie discovers a bottle of time travelling tequila. Each shot takes her back to the start of the night, giving her a bottle’s worth of shots to change the course of her millennium.

September 2023

KANGAROO
Cultivator Films Australia Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
Director Kate Woods
Writer Harry Cripps
Additional Writing Melina Marchetta
Producers David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin, Rachel Clements, Trisha Morton-Thomas
Executive Producers Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Elizabeth Trotman, Marcus Gillezeau, Louise Smith, Marian Macgowan
Distributor STUDIOCANAL Pty Ltd
International Sales STUDIOCANAL International
Synopsis Kangaroo is a heart-warming family comedy about ex-tv personality, Chris Masterson, who becomes stranded in an Outback town after a car accident on his way to Broome. There, he teams up with 11-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community. An endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both.

August 2023

THE CORRESPONDENT
Pop Family Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Thriller, Dramatic Thriller
Director Kriv Stenders
Writer Peter Duncan
Producer Carmel Travers
Distributor Maslow Entertainment
International Sales Moviehouse Entertainment
Synopsis When journalist, Peter Greste, is arrested in Cairo and accused of terrorism, he knows he’s a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries. Plunged into an inexplicable nightmare with only his wits keeping him alive, Greste’s survival means staring down a powerful regime.

WE BURY THE DEAD
Penguin Empire Films Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
Writer/Director Zak Hilditch
Producers Kelvin Munro, Grant Sputore, Ross Dinerstein
Distributor Umbrella
International Sales NEON
Synopsis With her husband missing in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment, a desperate woman joins a "body retrieval unit” in the hopes of finding him alive. But her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life.

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
Carolyn Johnson Films and Sixty Four Sixty 
Genre Drama
Writer/Director Kelly Schilling
Producers Su Armstrong, Caro Johnson
Distributor Icon Films
International Sales Level K
Synopsis A daughter, a mother, and a stranger from another land are thrown together on an unexpected road trip.

West Coast Visions 2023

PROCLIVITAS
Lake Martin Films
Genre Horror, Thriller
Writer/Director Miley Tunnecliffe
Producer Kate Separovich
Distributor Icon
International Sales TBA
Synopsis A former addict rekindles a past romance, awakening painful memories and a terrifying demon determined to possess her.

VICSCREEN ORIGINATE 2023

PASA FAHO
Ten Days Holdings PTY LTD
Genre Comedy, Drama
Writer/Director Kalu Oji
Producers Ivy Mutuku, Mimo Mukii
Distributor Cinemaplus
International Sales North South East West
Synopsis A struggling shoe salesman and his 10-year-old son must rekindle their estranged identities or risk losing everything.