Sydney Film Festival 2023

Over $150,000 will be awarded to filmmakers at Sydney Film Festival, which this year celebrates its 70th birthday. Audiences can experience 12 days of cinema from Australia and around the globe, with a program of 200+ feature films, documentaries and shorts. The first titles in this year’s 70th SFF program will be announced on Wednesday April 5, and audiences can expect the full Festival program to be revealed in May. The festival will be held across Greater Sydney with screenings...

Screen Queensland and Stowe Story Labs Fellowship – Submissions

The 2023 Screen Queensland and Stowe Story Labs Fellowship program supports two emerging-to mid-career Queensland-based screenwriters, directors or creative producers to travel to the US and develop their scripts at the Stowe Story Labs Incubator, followed by ongoing industry mentoring.   The fellowship includes attendance at Stowe’s Sidewalk Narrative Lab during the 2023 Sidewalk Film Festival in Alabama this August. Following the lab, recipients will continue their script and career development via a six-month remote mentorship with one of Stowe’s affiliated, U.S.-based industry experts....

Screen NSW 2023 Slate Development Funding program – Submissions

Screen NSW is inviting applications for this year's Slate Development Funding program, which provides screen companies based in the state with $100,000 to develop three projects across TV drama, factual, features, online, and immersive narrative that are produced and/or post-produced in NSW. To be eligible, each proposed project must include one female-identifying key creative and at least one key creative from the following groups: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), people with disability, LGBTQIA+, and Western...

2023 Monte Miller Award – Submissions

The Australian Writers' Guild is inviting applications for the 2023 Monte Miller Awards. Dedicated to uncovering the best new scripts and writing talent across Australia, the Monte Miller Awards is a purpose-built and industry-recognised opportunity for AWG associate and student members to have their work showcased directly to industry decision-makers. The Monte Miller Awards are open to screen and stage writers with an un-produced script of any genre across film, television, theatre, audio, and interactive media. The winning writers in...

SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator 2023 – Submissions

Now in its third year, SBS Emerging Writers' Incubator provides 12 months of paid employment in production companies around Australia for emerging writing talent from underrepresented backgrounds. They include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; people who are culturally and linguistically diverse; people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, or with disability; people who are female or gender diverse; people who identify as LGBTQIA+; and people located in regional and remote areas. In 2023, selected participants will join Curio Pictures...