First Nations Feature Development
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screenwriters with drama credits can ask Screen Australia's First Nations Department for money to write the next draft of a feature.
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Screenwriting events in Australia
12 listed in Sydney, Queensland, Brisbane and Gold Coast, Melbourne and Gold Coast. They take work in English.
12 listed. Round deadline Oct 22, 2026 is the soonest.
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First Nations TV Drama Development
Telemovies and drama series by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers can get development money here for scripts, a series bible, research and work toward finance.
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Bill Warnock Talent Accelerator Initiative 2026
One Western Australian writer spends a year on staff at Picking Scabs, the See-Saw Films label run with showrunner Samantha Strauss, working in development from the company's Sydney office.
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Escalate: Feature Focus Writers Initiative
Six Queensland writers are hired to each draft a 3D animated feature built on a premise from the Queensland producer Like A Photon Creative.
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The FACTory International Pitching Forum
Documentary and factual teams pitch to commissioners, funders, streamers, sales agents and festivals at AIDC in Sydney in March 2027.
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2027 Creative Launchpad
Queensland writers, producers and directors chosen for this program sit down with visiting screen professionals in small roundtables while the AACTA Awards and Festival run, February 3 to…
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Screen Australia x Australian Children's Television Foundation Kids IP Incubator
Aimed at children's content made for FAST channels and YouTube (Made for Kids), this second round picks up to eight teams for a Melbourne workshop, online modules with overseas platform…
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Screenwriting Archives Symposium: Contemporary perspectives on an often-underestimated body of work
A free two-day academic meeting at RMIT's city campus on what screenplay archives reveal, run with Montreal's UQAM and CRILCQ.
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Leading Lights
Newcomers to documentary get a subsidized pass to their first Australian International Documentary Conference, held in Sydney in March 2027.
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Global Fellowships
Screen Australia runs one round a year that pays established Australian writers, producers, directors and development executives to work inside a screen company abroad for up to a year.
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AIDC 2027 (Australian International Documentary Conference)
Documentary and factual makers meet in Sydney from March 8 to 11, 2027, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the State Library of NSW and the Botanic Gardens.
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SCREEN FOREVER 41
Australia's screen producers hold their 41st annual conference and market at The Star Gold Coast over three days in May.
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