The Scripted Development Investment Fund provides concept development (Stage One) and project development (Stage Two) funding to emerging and experienced Western Australian practitioners who are creating scripted content for all delivery platforms (including theatrical).

Scripted Development Investment Funding Recipients

STAGE ONE

Kick!

• Format: 8 x 10 minute online series
• Key Creatives:
  • Producers/Writers: Patrick Hogan & Jack Arbuckle

Logline: Kick! is a children’s sports drama about 12 year old footy fanatic Clancy and her relentless quest to start the first girls footy team in her isolated hometown of Wills Crossing, WA.

The Good Teacher

• Format: 6 x 60 minute TV series
• Production Company: PJ Publishing
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer/Writer: Sarah Smith
  • Based on the novel by PJ Kelly

Logline: The Australian media erupts into a frenzy when a teacher accused of kidnapping two of her students, returns after ten years in hiding. Pushing to have her day in court, she is determined to prove that what she did was right.

Dowding (working title)

• Format: TV series
• Production Company: QueenOwl
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Joan Peters
  • Writer: Paul Payne

Logline: Three young men from the same Australian family, each living in different timelines, struggle to stay true to their moral beliefs as their worlds fall apart.

Raising Thunder

• Format: Feature film
• Production Company: Sandbox Productions
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Jasmine Leivers
  • Director: Kaleb McKenna
  • Writer: Jesse Laurie

Logline: To reunite a fractured family and save a drought-stricken town, a grieving girl must deliver a fallen cloud—afraid of heights—back to its home in the sky.

OPEN (working title)

• Format: Feature film
• Key Creatives:
  • Writer/Director: Renée Webster

Logline: When a loving wife tires of her husband’s need for sex she changes the rules of their relationship.

STAGE TWO

Unqualified

• Format: 6 x 30 minute TV series
• Key Creatives:
  • Consultant Producer: Andy Walker
  • Executive Producers/Writers/Performers: Catherine Moore & Genevieve Hegney
  • Director: Matthew Moore

Logline: Unqualified: The story of two women who are not just living a lie but lying for a living.

Bull

• Format: Feature film
• Production Company: Scullface
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Michael Facey
  • Director: Chris Richards-Sully
  • Writer: Richard Hyde

Logline: A retired cage fighter must once again become the thing he hates most, a vicious monster, to rescue his daughter from persecution in a small country town.

TINGLEWOOD

• Format: Feature film
• Production Company: Lonely Astronaut
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Jaclyn Hewer
  • Writer/Director: Antony Webb

Logline: When a PhD Student with a traumatic past takes a research trip to the Tinglewood forest, she finds herself in a horrific world that will test her moral fibres, forcing her to overcome her past traumas or die trying.

Red Rock Run

• Format: Feature film
• Production Company: Tama Films
• Key Creatives:
  • Producer: Miriam Stein
  • Director: Cathy Randall
  • Writer: Meg Shields

Logline: When ten-year-old Lucy is banned from competing in the 1978 regional athletic trials, she fights to enter the first kids’ team in a gruelling outback marathon race.

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