sPECIAL INITIATIVEs
Screen Australia often partners with other organisations or platforms on special initiatives. These initiatives leverage finance from third parties in order to grow the funding pool available to practitioners, or to otherwise advance digital storytelling activities and talent escalation.
CURRENT INITIATIVES
Skip Ahead is a joint initiative of Screen Australia and YouTube Australia. Skip Ahead is open to both documentary and scripted narrative projects from Australian content creators where the producers and creators of the content maintain and retain control of self-distributing the work and taking it to audience on YouTube or YouTube Kids.
Up to five projects will be funded up to $130,000 each. Successful applicants will also participate in a three-day in person workshop held in Sydney from 28-30 July 2026.
Screen Australia and Los Angeles-based television company, Dynamic Television, will co-fund development of scripted television projects, with the aim of positioning them for greater international success as the projects prepare to go into production.
Up to one project may be selected from this round. Applicants can apply with a total development budget of up to $100,000 (to which Screen Australia will contribute 50% and Dynamic Television the remaining 50%). Dynamic Television will have first look to attach as international distributor, under terms to be negotiated.