NSW FTO: funding approvals
The NSW Govt. announces funding for 4 factual series and 1 drama including Go Back To Where You Came From and Bikie Wars.
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The NSW Film and Television Office today announced $585,000 invested in these six productions, being four factuals, one drama and one feature film project.
The factuals are a second season of Go Back to Where You Came From (SBS), Family Confidential (ABC), plus Making Couples Happy (ABC) and Life at 7 (ABC). The drama project is TEN’s Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms.
Minister for the Arts, George Souris said, “This Government is serious about its commitment to the screen industry.
“Since 1996 more than $3 million in support has been granted to 136 NSW film crews and their projects. Their films have been viewed in more than 1000 local and international festival screenings, including Cannes, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Tokyo, New York, and Barcelona, and have received over 200 awards and nominations.
“This financial year to date, $2.25 million has been invested in 14 screen projects, which will generate $33.94 million expenditure in NSW over the coming months.”
Screen NSW has also appointed a panel of service providers to attract production to regional NSW, being Screen Illawarra South East, Screen Hunter Central Coast, Screen Central NSW & Western Sydney, Northern Rivers Screenworks and Film Broken Hill.
“Regional Screen Offices (RSOs) play a critical role in ensuring regional NSW enjoys the cultural and economic benefits of screen production in our State,” Mr Souris said.
Project: Family Confidential – Series 2
Factual – Series
Company: KalMedia Pty Ltd
Director: Aviva Ziegler
Writer/Producer: Laurie Critchley
Synopsis: Family Confidential takes us inside the homes and lives of some of Australia’s most significant and influential families, revealing the private truths behind their famous public facades.
Project name: Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms
TV Drama – Series
Company: Screentime Pty Ltd
Writers: Greg Haddrick, Jo Martino, Roger Simpson
Director: Aviva Ziegler
Producers: Roger Simpson, Peter Andrikidis
Synopsis: “Brothers in Arms” tells the story behind the fatal feud between two outlaw motorcycle clubs that resulted in the Milperra Bikie Massacre in south-western Sydney on Fathers Day, 1984. Based on the book by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey.
Project: Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 2
Factual – Series
Company: Cordell Jigsaw Productions Pty Ltd
Writer: Michael Cordell
Director: Ivan O’Mahoney
Producer: Rick McPhee, Toni Malone
Synopsis: Six Australians agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by taking a confronting refugee journey themselves for 25 days.
Project: Making Couples Happy
Factual – Series
Company: Heiress Films Pty Ltd
Writer: Will Parry
Director: Kalita Corrigan
Producer: Jennifer Cummins
Synopsis: Science can make individuals happy in only eight weeks. Can it save relationships too?
Project: Life At 7
Factual – Series
Company: Heiress Films Pty Ltd
Writer/Director: Jennifer Peedom
Producer: Jennifer Cummins
Synopsis: Life at 7 continues the stories of 11 Australian children against the backdrop of the largest-ever longitudinal study on child development in this country, looking this time at temperament and peers. The series examines what it takes to give a child the best chance in life.
2 Responses
The NSW government is very happy to publish how much money they spend on local Australian production and ScreenNSW publishes its investment in each production. But what they don’t tell you is that they have reduced their spend on local production by 5 million dollars. Meanwhile via the Department of Industry they have invested millions in The Great Gatsby but they won’t reveal how much. This is apparently commercial in confidence. Could they please explain why an investment in a Warner Bros production is confidential but not a local Australian production?
If the Government was serious about their commitment to the screen industry then how come they didn’t try to save the new Mad Max movie from going overseas.