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Which Are the Latest Projects to Receive ACTF Development Funding?

The year is off to a great start with six projects receiving ACTF development funding in the first few months of 2021. Five new projects and one returning project received a second round of investment to take their project to a second stage of development. These latest funding decisions committed a further $187,178 to children’s projects across film and television and continued to add to the record level of ACTF development investment in 2020/2021.

The latest slate of projects include original concepts and adaptations, and will include a mix of live-action and animation series and a feature-length film.

“It is exciting to see the diversity of concepts being submitted with the child audience front and centre of the ideas, as well as creatives also now thinking about where a project will sit in the market and how audiences now view content. This past 12 months has seen an exciting mix of projects come into the ACTF and the bar well and truly raised,” says ACTF Head of Content, Bernadette O’Mahony.

The projects to receive development funding to March are:

Applicant	Project	Details	Amount
Pirate Size Productions	The True Colour of a Little White Lie	Feature length drama	$39,464
Ambience Entertainment and Tamarind Tree Pictures	Barrumbi Kids	Live action series	$18,562
Billy Anchor Productions	Out of This World	Live action series 2^nd stage funding	$27,902
Fremantle and 720 Creative	Billie and Jack	Live action series	$31,000
Vishus Productions	Owl Riders	Animation series	$46,250
Highly Spirited	Eddie’s Lil’ Homies	Animation series	$24,000