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FUNDING & SUPPORT

Funding Approvals

The South Australian Film Corporation provides funding and support for screen productions and practitioners through a range of different programs and initiatives. Below you can find lists of applicants and projects that have been approved for funding in the current financial year. This page is updated quarterly.

You can find funding approvals from previous years on our Past Funding Approvals page.

Image: Ladies in Black (2024)

Funding Approvals – 2023/2024 (Q4)

Attachment Schemes
Oliver Wells, attachment on Teenage Boss: Next Level, image supplied
Production Office Attachment Oliver Wells working on Teenage Boss: Next Level at Adelaide Studios

Professional Crew Attachments

  • Teenage Boss: Next Level – Production Office Attachment (Oliver Wells)
  • Bring Her Back – AD Department Attachment (Cordell Horsell)
  • Bring Her Back – Camera Department Attachment (Kirrily Gibbons)
Export Market Travel Fund
SA game developers at Gamescom 2024, image supplied
SA game developers at Gamescom 2024.

Gamescom 2024

  • Towerpoint Games
  • Paper Cactus Games
  • Lamplight Forest
  • We Made A Thing
First Nations Screen Strategy
Participants at the First Nations Short Film Writing Program 2024 weekend workshop.

First Nations Short Film Writing Program

  • The Night Before (Australia Day) (Leesha Cole)
  • Lost in the Unknown (Tyler Petersen-Dix)
  • Goonoolyoo Moolga Widyooroo (Shania Richards)
  • Homeward Bound (Lilla Berry)
  • Mankarra Kari (Colleen Raven Strangways)
  • Finding Voice (Joshua Barbo)
  • Catchin Bruce (Dylan Coleman)

First Nations Practitioner Development Program

  • Wānaka Whare Karioi ā-Whenua 2024 International Indigenous Digital Games Summit (Arthur Ah Chee)

Nunga Screen

  • Nunga Screen 2024 (South Australian Country Arts)

Production Fund Support

  • Ngarrindjeri Ruwi – Kondili (Gina Lauren Rings)
Industry Sponsorships
SA producer Adam Camporeale (right) at  the Australian Children's Content Summit (ACCS) 2024, image supplied
SA producer Adam Camporeale at the 2024 Australian Children’s Content Summit.

2024 Australian Children’s Content Summit

  • Australian Children’s Content Summit 2024 (SLR Productions Pty Ltd)
Master/Apprentice Mentorship Program

Mentees

  • Production Accountant (Emma Clear)
  • Production (Jess Cahill)
  • Continuity (Tayla Elliott)
  • Camera (Lewis Smith)
  • Assistant Director (Keith Gilbey-Warrior)
  • Camera (Tamryn Morriss)
  • Art Department (Kate Vollebregt)
  • Production Office (Jasmin Watkins)
  • Camera (Andre Pinto Donadio)
  • Art Department (Maggie Schubert)
  • Locations (Jules Wurm)
  • Assistant Director (Trinity-Lee Brown)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • Glitter Gang (Ladies of Drift Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Off the Charts (JOY Studios)
  • Untitled – TV Series (Mangrove Films Pty Ltd)
  • Sharehouse (R Estelle & P A Monaghan)
  • We Are Not Powerless (Light Sound Art Film Pty Ltd)
  • Tuned Into Love – Feature Film (Untold Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Ultra (Think Films Limited)
SA PDV Rebate
Eddie's Lil Homies
Eddie’s Lil Homies (2023)
  • Monkey Man (Onion Films Pty Ltd)
  • Eddie’s Lil Homies (Spirited Pty Ltd)
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Awesome Post Production Pty Ltd)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (Awesome Post Production Pty Ltd)
Screen Production Fund
The cast of RFDS
  • Mockbuster (Mostly True Media Pty Ltd)
  • RFDS S3 (Endemol Shine Australia)

Funding Approvals – 2023/2024 (Q3)

ABC SAFC Content Pipeline Fund
Emma Watkins, host of Teenage Boss: Next Level
  • Teenage Boss: Next Level (McAvoy Media Pty Ltd)
Attachment Schemes

Professional Crew Attachments

  •  The Recruit S2 – VFX Attachment (Tamara Cooke)
Conference and Market Subsidies
SA screen practitioners Elena Carapetis and Kaye Weeks of Windmill Pictures at the SPA Awards 2024, image supplied
SA screen practitioners Elena Carapetis and Kaye Weeks of Windmill Pictures at the 2024 SPA Awards at Screen Forever.

AIDC 2024 Ticket Subsidy

  • Race to the Centre (Think Films)
  • Glitter Gang (L.J Redman & J.L Smith)
  • Winter Herd (Repeater Productions Aus Pty Ltd)
  • Clown School (Closer Projects Pty Ltd)
  • Operation Ochre (Daniel Joyce)
  • Malachi (Gravity Films Pty Ltd)
  • Evolution Revolution – working title (JDR Screen Pty Ltd)
  • We Are Not Powerless – working title (Light Sound Art Film Pty Ltd)
  • Pathway to Prison – Girls in Care (Arterial Films Pty Ltd)
  • Finish this Sentence (Nicole Miller)

SPA Screen Forever 2024 Ticket Subsidy

  • Malachi (Gravity Films Pty Ltd)
  • Beep and Mort (Windmill Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • DEO (Elena Carapetis)
  • Holo (Passel Pty Ltd)
  • Shelter (Raucous Behaviour Pty Ltd)
  • Good Girl (Arterial Films Pty Ltd)
  • Running (Anna Lindner)
  • Bad Egg (Stephanie Jaclyn)
  • Have I Said Too Much? (Hardy White Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Off the Charts (JOY Studios)
Export Market Travel Fund

Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film

  • Lou La Belle (Dancing Road Productions Pty Ltd)
Film Lab: New Voices

Development Funding

  • The Debt (Dinosaur Disco Films Pty Ltd)
  • If I Could Be Anyone (Craig Jackson)
  • The Sandcastle (DT Pictures Pty Ltd)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • Disciples (Triptych Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Penny Lane is Dead (Sanctuary Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Razorback (Sanctuary Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Blackbird (Closer Stories Pty Ltd)
SA PDV Rebate
Beep and Mort
Windmill Pictures’ Beep and Mort S2
  • The Angels: Kickin’ Down the Door (Pouch Potato Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Hocus Pocus 2 (Awesome Post Production Pty Ltd)
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon (Vengeance Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (K25 Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Chupa (Post Production Holdings No. 2 Pty Ltd)
  • One Piece (Post Production Holdings No. 2 Pty Ltd)
  • Beep and Mort S2 (Mollyvale Holdings Pty Ltd)
  • AHSOKA (Awesome Post Production Pty Ltd)
  • Master Gardener (Bluesky Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1 (Post Production Holdings No. 2 Pty Ltd)
  • Cuckoo (Post Production Holdings No. 2 Pty Ltd)
  • Sydney Harbour: Shark Invasion (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
SA VGD Rebate
Animated Power Rangers characters stand on multiple platforms.
Power Rangers: Mighty Force by Mighty Kingdom
  • Power Rangers: Mighty Force (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Star Trek Lower Decks (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Project 11 (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Video Game (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Broken Ridge (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Video Game (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
Screen Production Fund
Breakout Productions’ Sydney Harbour: Shark Invasion
  • Sydney Harbour: Shark Invasion (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)

Funding Approvals – 2023/2024 (Q2)

Attachment Schemes

Professional Crew Attachments

  • With or Without You – Producer Attachment (Jenniffer Montenegro Quitian)
  • Super Shark Highway – Edit Attachement (Zanny Edhouse)
Export Market Travel Fund

IDFA Docs for Sale Market

  • The Last Daughter (Gravity Films Pty Ltd)

US Delegation

  • Embrace: Kids (The Embrace Collective Ltd)
First Nations Screen Strategy

First Nations Practitioner Development Program

  • SXSW (Biriny Ptd Ltd)
Industry Sponsorships
SPA Screen Forever 2023 (Screen Producers Association of Australia)
  • SPA Screen Forever 2024 (Screen Producers Association of Australia)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • 33AD (Sanctuary Pictures Pty Ltd)
SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator
  • Emily Steel
Screen Production Fund
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
  • You Should’ve Been Here Yesterday (Light Sound Art Film Pty Ltd)
  • With or Without You (Carolyn Johnson Films Pty Ltd)
  • Kangaroo Island (Pouch Potato Productions Pty Ltd)
Targeted Development Grant
  • Unification (Matthew James Vesely)
  • Anner House (Corner Table Productions Australia Pty Ltd)
  • Mongrel (Closer Stories Pty Ltd)
  • Wreck and Ruin (In Cahoots Creations Pty Ltd)
  • The Provocateurs (Collide Pty Ltd)

Funding Approvals – 2023/2024 (Q1)

Attachment Schemes
Attachment Oliver Piperone on set of Ladies in Black 2024, image supplied.
Unit Attachment Oliver Piperone on set of Ladies in Black at Adelaide Studios.

Professional Crew Attachments

  • Desert King – Production Attachment (Mia Fountain)
  • Desert King – Art Department Attachment (Sonja van Bavel)
  • Thou Shalt Not Steal – Camera Attachment (Lewis Smith)
  • Thou Shalt Not Steal – Costume Attachment (Ellen Baldock)
  • Untitled TV Series – Art Department Attachment (Jessica O’Reilly)
  • Untitled TV Series – Location Attachment (Lindsay Peele)
  • Untitled TV Series – Unit Department (Oliver Piperone)
Export Market Travel Fund
South Australian game developers at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany 2023.
SA video game developers at Gamescom 2023.

European Film Market

  • Mimesis (Triptych Pictures Pty Ltd)

Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 2023 Ticket Subsidy

  • Punchimals (Two Lives Left Pty Ltd)
  • Roving Rovers (Mini Mammoth Games Pty Ltd)
  • Anvilheart (Towerpoint Pty Ltd)
  • Star Farmer: Warlock of the Universe (Tyler Roach)
  • Fox and Shadow (Paper Cactus Games Pty Ltd)
  • Pedal Rebel VR (Jonathan Kovarch)
  • Crimson Cutlass (Cerulean Creative Studios)
  • Cult of the Lamb (Harrison Gibbins)
  • Travelling Cat Merchant (Tessa Touchette)
  • Project Julia (Stellar Advent)
  • Box Knight (We Made A Thing Pty Ltd)
  • Victor Nascimento

Gamescom 2023

  • Land Tides (Lamplight Forest Pty Ltd)
  • Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers (Dino Rocket Pty Ltd)
  • Fox and Shadow (Paper Cactus Games Pty Ltd)
  • Roving Rovers (Mini Mammoth Games Pty Ltd)
  • Broken Ridge (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Taming Yore Dragon (My Colourful Mind Pty Ltd)

International Children’s Content Summit Ticket Subsidy

  • Owl Riders (Vishus Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Dots and Diamond (Monkeystack Pty Ltd)
  • Wishes (Karu-Karu Pty Ltd)
  • Anangu Dreamtime (Vishus Productions Pty Ltd)

Marché Internationale des Programmes de Communications (MIPCOM) 2023

  • Beep and Mort (Mollyvale Holdings Pty Ltd)

First Nations Screen Strategy

First Nations Practitioner Development Program

  • Darwin Film Festival/NT Screen Summit (Isaac Lindsay)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • Operation Ochre (Projector Films Pty Ltd)
  • Mimesis (Triptych Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Wishes (Karu-Karu Pty Ltd)
  • Winter Herd (Repeater Productions (Aus) Pty Ltd)
  • Senescence (Trove Films Pty Ltd)
SA PDV Rebate
The Speedway Murders
  • The Speedway Murders (Ringleader Films Pty Ltd)
  • Aussie Snake Wranglers – S3 (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Yellowjackets – S2 (MPS-NO5 Pty Ltd)
  • Teen Wolf (Blusky Pictures Pty Ltd)
  • Master Gardener (Blusky Pictures Pty Ltd)
SA VGD Rebate
An animated hilly landscape with a girl wearing a cowboy had and backpack standing with a large horse in the centre of the frame.
Star Equestrian by Foxie Games
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Barbie Fashion Closet (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Broken Ridge (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Star Trek Lower Decks (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Star Equestrian (The Trustee For D Abeynayake Trust)
  • Power Rangers (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Beepo Maths (The Trustee For D Abeynayake Trust)
  • Untitled – Video Game (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Video Game (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Project 11 (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Horse Riding Tales (The Trustee For D Abeynayake Trust)
  • Project Ball Stars (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Trucks Off Road (ODD Games Pty Ltd)
Screen Production Fund
A short haired woman holds a ukulele
Songs Inside
  • Songs Inside (Songs Inside Pty Ltd)
  • With or Without You (Carolyn Johnson Films Pty Ltd)
A Sunburnt Christmas, image supplied

Past Funding Approvals

View funding approvals from previous years.

Image: A Sunburnt Christmas (2020)