Tuesday, February 13, 2018

A possible way to allocate Screen Australia funds for features

A budget of $50 million - I'm not including salary costs.

* $5 million - go to development of scripts for writers, helping producers option and develop material
* 3 x $10 million - invest ten million in three projects with international focus and have finance from other sources. Examples include say a film of the musical of Priscilla or Boy from Oz.
* 3 x $5 million - invest in three comedy films each with a budget of $5 million - these will be aimed at a domestic audience - they should have some recogniseable element eg Hamish and Andy, Working Dog - kids films can be included in this - the budget is capped at $5 million though
* 1 x $5 million - as above only action movie/thriller eg Battle of Long Tan - if you can't make it for $5 million you don't get the money
* 3 x $1 million - genre pieces - horror, thriller, supernatural, whatever
* 2 x $1 million - new filmmaker fund - two features a year, LGBTI or indigenous Australian, women, whatever (diversity will be allocated in above categories but this is specifically for that function)

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