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 2nd 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 |
We look forward to seeing the great work of these creative teams continue over the coming months as they continue to develop their projects.
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