Four WA projects receive Documentary Development Investment funding
Four documentary projects have received development support through Screenwest’s second round of Documentary Development Investment Funding for the 2021-22 financial year.
The four successful recipients include factual stories about First Nations health services, wildlife protection, Australian dog beaches and an outback production of a cult musical.
“This round has produced an impressive mix of projects – we look forward to following the development of these four unique documentary series.” said Paul Williams, Screenwest Documentary Executive.
Screenwest’s Documentary Development Investment Fund invests in the development of documentary and factual programming in order to support and grow a sustainable Western Australian screen industry. The fund provides support to Western Australian producers for production finance for feature length documentary films and factual series with significant marketplace attachments from traditional and new online platforms and distributors.
Documentary Development Investment Funding Recipients
Our Medicine
- Format: 6 x 30 minute TV series
- Production Company: PiNK PEPPER & Periscope Pictures
- Key Creatives:
- Producers/Writers: Taryne Laffar & Sam Bodhi Field
- Line Producer: Ryan Hodgson
Logline: In this character-driven observational documentary series first, First Nations doctors, nurses, psychologists, paramedics, midwives and health workers on the medical frontline are filmed across Australia in a diverse range of metro, regional and remote areas over six months, as they try to build trust in the medical system for Indigenous communities and get better outcomes for their First Nations patients.
Life’s a Dog Beach
- Format: 6 x 1 hour TV series
- Production Company: Sea Dog TV International
- Key Creatives:
- Executive Producer/Producer: Jodie De Barros
- Series Director/Writer: Leighton De Barros
Logline: Slap on the sunscreen, whack on your speedos and be prepared to get wet behind the ears as we visit Australia’s favourite dog beaches for a fun, exciting and heart-warming series as we meet the owners and their hounds for whom Life’s a ‘Dog’ Beach.
Rewilding the West
- Format: 6 x 30 minute TV series
- Production Company: Riggs Australia
- Key Creatives:
- Producer/Director/Writer: Jennene Riggs
- Producer: David Riggs
Logline: Join actor come wildlife-champion George Shevtsov on his passionate crusade to mend the powerful ties that bind mankind to nature, by helping to set up the rarest of the rare animals on remote island arks off the coast of Western Australia, where they are safe from feral predators.
Outback Tinsel Town
- Format: 4 x 1 hour TV series
- Production Company: Guru Productions
- Key Creatives:
- Executive Producer: Trevor Cochrane
- Executive Producer/Series Producer: David Holroyd
- Line Producer: Kelly Miller
Logline: In an effort to revive a struggling outback town a Broadway theatre producer and his five eccentric department heads attempt to stage a production of Priscilla in the rough and ready mining town of Kalgoorlie using just locals as cast and crew.
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