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Who Got Funded by the ACTF in a Bumper Year for the Development of Australian Children’s Television?

The ACTF has received a record number of applications for development support in 2020 and committed over $500,000 across the year, to support the development of film and television projects which aim to engage, stimulate and entertain Australian children.

A total of 23 applications were approved for development funding this year, with $510,756 committed for the year to date. This investment was spread across 19 different projects and production companies and the projects include live action, animation, film and a VR series.

“It was great to see such a wide range of Australian producers and creatives applying for development funding this year, the breadth of the projects in development and the ambition producers are bringing to the kids space is great to see for Australian kids and audiences around the world, who have always loved quality Australian kids series” said Jenny Buckland ACTF CEO

In addition to development, the ACTF has continued to invest in the production of quality Australian children’s series, providing production finance via distribution advances or equity, or a mix of both, to 5 diverse projects which have entered production this year or will do so in early 2021; as well as having provided a cashflow loan for a series during its pre-production.

ACTF development funding recipients in 2020 were:

Applicant	Project	Details	Amount
Northern Pictures	Hardball 2	10 x half hour live action comedy series	$41,480
Cheeky Little Media	Sophie’s Stories	39 x 7 minute animated pre-school series	$21,850
Princess Pictures	Mrs Grumble’s Weekend Rumble	10 x half hour live action drama series	$25,479
Tim Bain	Knee High Spies	26 x 11 minute pre-school series	$14,950
Pirate Size Productions	Ditched	10 x 22 minute live-action series	$25,717
CJZ	Good Deeders	26 x 12 minute live-action series	$17,584
Alix Beane	What the Actual?	10 x half hour live-action series	$21,869
Epic Films	First Day 2	4 x half hour live-action drama series	$23,359
Happening Films	300 Minutes of Danger	10 x 30 minute VR drama series	$12,000
Billy Anchor Productions	Out of This World	10 x half hour live action series	$23,751
Beyond Entertainment	Earth Investigators	26 x 11 minute animated series	$13,230
Epic Films	That’s What You Think!	13 x half hour live-action series	$6,791
Brindle Films	MaveriX	10 x half hour live-action series	$99,018
Gristmill	Lightening Primary	10 x half hour live-action series	$40,700
Goalpost Pictures	You Must Be Layla	13 x 25 minute live-action series	$40,537
Midwinter Films	Timewriters	10 x 24 minute live-action series	$22,161
Brendan Luno and Ray Boseley	The Many Worlds of Michaela Moor	13 x 25 minute live-action series	$15,000
SLR Productions	Meet The Smiths	10 x 22 minute live-action series	$20,280
Moody Street Kids	Go Dodo	Animated feature length film	$25,000

The ACTF is looking forward to working with all these production companies in 2021, as they develop their projects and get them ready for presentation to commissioners. With additional Commonwealth funding of $20 million over 2 years from the 1^st July 2021, the ACTF is hoping to assist as many of these projects as possible to go into production.

For more information on working with the ACTF, register to attend our online webinar on 10 December 2020: actf.tv/funding-webinar.