Screenrights Cultural Fund (Australia and New Zealand)

Objectives

• The Screenrights Cultural Fund supports Australian and New Zealand projects and initiatives that make a broad positive contribution to industry development. The focus of the Fund will change periodically to reflect trends and issues in screen content creation.
• The Fund is underpinned by the following qualities:
  • diversity
  • innovation
  • inspiration
  • collaboration
  • transparency
• These qualities should be reflected in the projects proposed for funding, as well as in the applicants’ own creative practice.

Scope

• Cultural Fund initiatives will demonstrably contribute to a healthy local screen sector. They encourage submissions that increase diversity. The Cultural Fund supports a wide range of activities, from small individual projects through to large-scale initiatives.
  • For example:
    • projects that break down barriers to access, and engage with remote and isolated communities
    • workshops that foster inclusive collaboration
    • services that deliver content to users in innovative ways
    • start-ups that upend existing business models to support the creation, delivery, and use of content
    • projects that create viable pathways for under-represented voices
• Successful applications will have:
  • committed partners to ensure maximum reach and impact
  • a positive impact on the career of the recipient, partners and participants
  • a positive influence the screen industry more broadly
  • The Cultural Fund does not fund production or development of screen projects.

Funding Information

• Applicants may apply for any amount of funding up to A$50,000.
• The value of individual grants will vary according to the needs of the proposed project.
• A Cultural Fund grant is intended to contribute to realising the project, rather than cover the total cost. Applicants are therefore encouraged to incorporate other funding sources, both cash and in-kind.
• Applications must clearly identify their funding sources and which expenses that funding will cover.
• Only expenses directly related to the delivery of the proposed project will be considered eligible for the Cultural Fund.
• Applicants must therefore submit a budget setting out:
  • How the Applicant intends to use the Screenrights Cultural Fund Grant, shown as specific, itemised expenses to be covered by the Grant; and,
  • Details of other sources of funding: who is providing funding, how much funding they will provide, and which expenses the funding will cover.

What you can apply for?

• Mentoring programs, skills development workshops, training programs, capacity building initiatives, new distribution platforms, developing new technical tools, etc.

What you can’t apply for?

• Script development, producing screen content, post-production or impact campaigns for a specific screen project, etc.

Eligibility Criteria

• While applications may commit a number of parties to the project, one person must be identified as the Applicant and primary contact for the purpose of administering the project.
• The Applicant:
  • must be an individual who is a resident of Australia or New Zealand for taxation purposes, or a company domiciled in Australia or New Zealand for taxation purposes
  • cannot be a director or employee of Screenrights, or a member of a director or employee’s immediate family
  • should have some experience relevant to the proposed project
  • may only be involved in one application per funding round
  • cannot have received a Grant from the Screenrights Cultural Fund within the last 3 years
• If successful, the Applicant:
  • will be the recipient of the Grant funds and be accountable to Screenrights for the expenditure of Grant funds
  • must take responsibility for successfully administering the relationships between all parties, the deliverables, and promotion throughout the project
  • is not eligible to apply again to subsequent Cultural Fund rounds until their funded project has been acquitted
  • is not eligible to directly benefit from subsequent Cultural Fund rounds – as, for example, a paid collaborator or employee of another Applicant – until their funded project has been acquitted. Any such involvement may cause the new Application to be ineligible.

For more information, visit Screenrights.