Screenwest is pleased to announce that West Coast Visions will be returning in 2023.

West Coast Visions is a screen industry development program that provides production funding of $750,000 to low budget features that are to be produced in Western Australia.

The initiative is designed to uncover, inspire and develop talented and motivated writer/director/producer teams with distinctive visions, assisting them to fulfill their professional potential.

2022 has been a bumper year for WA features and creatives supported through West Coast Visions. Comedy-drama How to Please a Woman, for which writer/director Renée Webster received West Coast Visions funding in 2019, was released in May and proved to be a hit with audiences.

West Coast Visions film Sweet As, directed by Jub Clerc, also made its world premiere earlier this year. Sweet As is currently scooping up awards; winning the NETPAC Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, along with the $70K Black Magic Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film will be released in cinemas next year.

Last year’s recipient, David Vincent Smith, is set to go into production in early 2023 on his feature He Ain’t Heavy; and most recently, writer/director Zoe Pepper’s debut feature film Birthright, to be produced by Cody Greenwood, was announced as the 2022 West Coast Visions recipient.

Applications for West Coast Visions will open in the new year, closing Monday, 17 April 2023 at 5:00pm AWST.

Program Contact

For more information about West Coast Visions, please contact:

Tenille Kennedy, Scripted Executive
Screenwest
T: +61 8 6169 2107
E: tenille.kennedy@screenwest.com.au