South Australia’s low-budget feature film development initiative, Film Lab: New Voices, is calling for original and ambitious feature-length submissions for its third-round intake. Co-funded by theSouth Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Adelaide Film Festival and Screen Australia, Film Lab: New Voices offers three filmmaking teams the chance to develop their first low-budget feature through a 12-month development program. At the completion of the Lab, one team will be selected to receive $600,000 in screen production grant funding with their film to premiere the Adelaide Film Festival...

Frame Documentary is inviting applications for its 2024 Frame Doc Labs, an acceleration program designed to support Victoria’s most daring and innovative non-fiction storytellers to explore new directions, develop new connections, and incubate new documentary work at the intersection of art and technology. Running from February to August, the initiative will provide four teams of mid-career creators support for prototyping new methods, processes, and approaches to bring their non-fiction immersive stories to light.    

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Office (NATSIMO) has opened expressions of interest for its Screen Composer Intensive. The program was developed in consultation with screen industry professionals with the goal to create, forge and develop self-determined pathways to employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screen composers through the development of a three-month creative immersive experience. Applications are open to composers from all across Australia, but the program requires the participant to be based in Sydney...

Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce and WIFT Australia have partnered on a new mentorship program aimed at empowering women and gender-diverse practitioners from across the screen industry, from production through to distribution and marketing. Mentors already confirmed include Mind Blowing Films founding director Mitu Bhowmick Lange, Stan commissioning editor Donna Chang, NITV head of commissions Marissa McDowell, showrunner Vicki Madden, producer Julie Ryan and actor Aaron Pedersen. WIFT Australia’s recently announced partnership with Stage 32 will also facilitate a variety...