Request for Applications: African Australian Creative Media Grant

The African Australian Creative Media Grant seeks to invest in the creativity, capability and sustainability of individuals and organisations that make a valuable contribution to the narratives, storytelling ecosystem and creative innovation of African Australians.

Focus Areas

• Community voices
  • Vehicles for expression for emerging African creatives. Showcasing the diversity of experiences that exist within African communities in Australia.
• Platform sustainability
  • Increasing overall reach and depth of engagement.
  • Financial growth and sustainability of African media platforms.
• Sector development
  • Greater diversity and representation in Australian media.
  • A mix of both emerging and established African Australian individuals, small and medium organisations.

Types of Streams

• Stream 1: Platform Development
  • Support the improvement and continuation of platforms including websites, social media sites or other.
• Stream 2: Content Creation
  • For the execution of original content and productions created by African Australians.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: $10,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• African Australian individuals in any creative media industry – this includes film, tv, magazines, radio, podcasts, online and any other media.
• Media Platforms lead by African Australians – this includes social media platforms, magazines, blogs etc.
• Africans in Australia regardless of their background, visa or citizenship status.
• African community organisations with a project focused on stories and storytelling.
• Previous successful grantees are not eligible for this round.
• Stream 1: Platform Development
  • So, you’ve developed your platform and now you want to take the leap to get to the next stage. This stream is designed to help you set yourself up to grow and strengthen your platform. You may want to use the funds to advertise and market your platform, purchase items like cameras and microphones, or create/redesign a website to showcase content. Funds may be used in part to support the skills and development of the individuals involved with the platform.
• Stream 2: Content Creation
  • You are a storyteller, who wants to do what’s natural to you – tell stories! Applicants for this stream should demonstrate what they want to create and how they plan to market and engage this content with their desired audiences. Applicants might come from backgrounds like screen media, literature, social media channels, podcasts and a whole lot more.

Selection Criteria

• Stream 1: Platform Development
  • Relationships: The development of larger networks, additional collaborations or partnerships that may contribute to the platform
  • Reach: How the funds are used to raise the profile of the platform and its content
  • Operational capacity: Evidence of the applicant’s capacity to deliver the project
  • Viability: Strategic approach to scale the platform
• Stream 2: Content Creation
  • Capacity: Evidence of the applicant’s capacity to deliver the project
  • Voices: Description outlining how the project raises the profile of stories created by African Australians
  • Originality: Statement on what inspired this project and its significance
  • Reach: Evidence of promotional or marketing plan to reach project’s desired audiences

Application Requirements

• Applicants must supply CVs for creatives, producers and project managers associated with project. You are also welcome to include:
  • Media: Visual/Audio files of previous work (direct links or mp4 format preferred).
  • Direct links to show evidence of platform (Stream 1 only)
  • Detailed project outline.

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