Screen Australia announces over $5.2 million in Enterprise Funding
Screen Australia is pleased to announce over $5.2 million in funding for 18 Enterprise People opportunities and 18 Enterprise Business proposals.
Enterprise Business recipients Djali House and Kapwa
The Enterprise Business program supports screen businesses to create change, grow their business and build pathways to sustainability. Among the recipients are Ten4 Media, a Northern Territory based company specialising in observational documentaries that capture unique stories and landscapes; Fremantle company Artemis Media, renowned for their work in creating high-impact factual series such as Maggie Beer’s Big Mission and Who Do You Think You Are?; Torres Strait Islander First Nations company Lone Star dedicated to bringing scripted projects to a global audience; and Magpie Pictures from regional NSW who focus on authentic storytelling and are behind the acclaimed SBS series Swift Street.
The Enterprise People stream creates career defining development opportunities and supports placements for practitioners to escalate their screen careers. Amongst the recipients are Class of 07 creator Kacie Anning who will undertake a six-month placement with US company Paper Planes; Joshua Yasserie, a 2023 Fresh blood recipient who will embark on a 12-month placement with Studio Gilay who specialise in First Nations animation; and Ruby Davis who recently worked on Adam Elliot’s upcoming feature Memoir of a Snail and will undertake a 12-month placement with Arenamedia.
Screen Australia’s First Nations Department has invested $1 million into the program which will support four First Nations Business including Djali House, Lone Star Company, No Coincidence Media, and Pandamonium Films, and three practitioners including Travis Akbar, Isaac Cohen Lindsay and Joshua Yasserie.
Since launching in 2009, Screen Australia’s Enterprise program has supported more than 133 screen businesses and 136 individual creators, investing over $50 million in the program.
Screen Australia COO Grainne Brunsdon said, “We are committed to helping create sustainable businesses, fostering creative entrepreneurship and supporting individuals build their careers and produce Australian stories for the global industry. We're thrilled to support such a diverse range of businesses from across Australia, and placements that will provide crucial upskilling for local practitioners as they develop their careers here and all over the world.”
The 2024 Enterprise People recipients and the placements they will take up are:
- Travis Akbar - Dicentium Films
- Kacie Anning - Paper Planes
- Laki Baker - Artemis Media
- Allison Brownmoore - SAM Content
- Sarah Carroll - Purple Carrot Entertainment
- Ruby Davis - Arenamedia
- Michael Drake - Sinking Ship Entertainment
- Chris Eley - ZED Productions
- Lina Foti - Ouray Pictures Inc
- Sam Icklow - Archipelago Productions
- Shelly Lauman - Easy Tiger Productions
- Isaac Coen Lindsay - We Made A Thing Studios
- Courtney Mulvay - Wheels Rolling
- Georgia Noe - Cultivator Films
- Nadia Townsend - Aquarius Films
- Anna Vincent - Zephyr Films
- Joshua Yasserie - Studio Gilay
- Debbie Zhou - Fable Pictures
The 2024 Enterprise Business recipients are:
- Artemis Media
- Djali House
- Factor 30 Films
- indiVisual films – international
- Kapwa
- Lantern Pictures
- Lone Star Media
- Mad Ones Films
- Magpie Pictures
- New Mac
- Never/ Sleep Pictures
- No Coincidence Media
- Pandamonium Films
- Shop 15 Productions (Slag Productions)
- Ten 4 Media
- Thousand Mile Productions
- Walking Fish Productions
- Wild Pacific Media
For more information about each recipient, click here.
Enterprise People recipients (L-R) Lina Foti, Ruby Davis, Courtney Mulvay
ABOUT ENTERPRISE
Screen Australia’s Enterprise program consists of two programs: Business and People, and two streams within each: Generate and Premium.
- Enterprise Business supports proposals from screen businesses that create change, growth and pathways to sustainability and have benefit to the screen industry more broadly.
- Enterprise People supports placements for individuals that create a career defining development opportunity and support a sustainable and escalating screen career.
For more information, visit the Enterprise Business or Enterprise People, or contact Enterprise@screenaustralia.gov.au.