Cody Greenwood and Zoe Pepper.

West Coast Visions, now boosted to $1.25 million, proves a talent escalator for WA

Screenwest’s West Coast Visions funding, which backs debut feature directors from WA, has proven to be one of the country’s most effective talent escalators. From this year onward, Screen Australia will commit an extra $500,000 to the initiative annually. IF talks to recent recipients, the teams behind ‘He Ain’t Heavy’, now in post, and ‘Birthright’, now fully financed and set to enter production later this year.

Since it was launched in 2009, West Coast Vision...