Four WA projects receive Screenwest Documentary Development Investment Funding

The successful recipients include factual stories about motor makeovers, a former pro wrestler, a Shark Bay-based Indigenous entrepreneur and Australia’s toughest rehab.

“We’re pleased to be supporting the development of these four impressive, original Western Australian documentary projects, and look forward to following their progress.” 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

Lemons

• Format: 8 x 1 hour TV series
• Production Company: Polony Pty Ltd
• Key Creative:
  • Executive Producer/Director/Writer: Nathan Gibbs

Logline: In Lemons, two hosts undertake the near impossible task of transforming some of history’s most maligned motors into cool, coveted cars.

Inside Shalom

• Format: 6 x 1 hour docu-series
• Production Company: VAM Media & Chaos Theory Films
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Brendan Hutchens
  • Co-Producer: Shea Walsh

Logline: Go cold turkey at Australia’s toughest rehab, where one man is fighting for the lives of people who have hit rock bottom, the only way he knows how.

School of Hard Knocks

• Format: 1 hour TV single
• Production Company: Masters of Attention
• Key Creative:
  • Producer/Director: Cristian Broadhurst

Logline: When life knocks you down, learn to fight back.

Saltwater Cowboys of Shark Bay

• Format: 6 x 1 hour TV series
• Production Company: Catch & Release
• Key Creative:
  • Executive Producer: Nathan Gibbs

Logline: The story of an Indigenous startup, an industry old as time, and a mystical misunderstood sea creature that just might save the world.

Screenwest has opened a new Documentary Development Investment Funding round, with applications closing Monday, 3 July. The full guidelines, application materials and eligibility criteria are available on the Development Funding Page of the Screenwest website.

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