Scott Hicks during the making of his feature doc Highly Strung.
Screen NSW and ABC TV Arts have announced a new three-year joint initiative to fund one feature length documentary on the arts each year.
Screen NSW will contribute $100,000 and the ABC Licence is $150,000, and the chosen film will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival each year prior to screening on ABC TV.
Applications are sought for projects that will suit primetime broadcast and deal in "Arts in the broadest sense, appealing to a wide audience."
“The documentary feature genre is enjoying a fantastic resurgence, both here in Australia and around the world", Screen NSW CEO Courtney Gibson said.
"Screen NSW is pleased to be partnering with ABC TV Arts to seek out and support NSW-based practitioners with feature length documentary projects, and where better to have their world premiere than at the Sydney Film Festival!"
ABC Director of Television Richard Finlayson called the Screen NSW – ABC TV Arts Documentary Feature Fund an "important new initiative which will give the selected filmmakers the time and freedom to delve deeply into their subject.”
Applications close July 10.
http://screen.nsw.gov.au/funding/production-support/documentary-feature-fund-initiative