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FUNDING & SUPPORT

Funding Approvals

The South Australian Film Corporation provides funding and support for screen productions and practitioners through a range of different programs and initiatives. Below you can find lists of applicants and projects that have been approved for funding in the current financial year. This page is updated quarterly.

You can find funding approvals from previous years on our Past Funding Approvals page.

Image: Treasure & Dirt (2026)

Funding Approvals – 2025/2026 (Q4)

ABC SAFC Content Pipeline Fund
Attachment Scheme
Professional Crew Attachments
Conference and Market Subsidies
Melbourne International Games Week 2026
  • 11 projects and developers – to be announced
Diversity Development Grant
  • Lesbian Death Squad (Katrina Lucas)
  • A Silent Escape (SGT Productions)
  • Blacks Landing (Nyawa Pictures)
  • Human Exchange Student (LateNite Films)
Export Market Travel Fund
Wishes
Annecy International Animation Film Market 2026
  • Wishes (Karu-Karu)
Cannes Film Market
  • Alpha Test (DT Pictures)
Partner with Australia (UK)
  • Joshua Tyler – Collide
Sunny Side of the Doc
Film Lab: New Voices
The Film Lab: New Voices teams for round four
Development Grant
  • CCTV (Lisa Bishop)
  • Portals (Mostly True Media)
  • The Pest (Jasmine Leech)
First Nations Practitioner Development Fund
Kumarangk: Sacred Women’s Business

SCREEN FOREVER 2026

  • Kumarangk: Sacred Women’s Business (Untold Productions)

Sunny Side of the Doc

Industry Sponsorship
GCAP 2022
  • Bus Stop Films – Inclusive Producer’s Attachment Program 2026
  • Screenworks New Kids on the Block Regional to Global Screen Forum 2026
Matched Market Development Grant
  • The Dig (Closer Stories)
SA PDV Rebate
Kill Jackie
  • Aftermath (Trou Films)
  • Apex (NF Ocean Productions)
  • Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit S3 (Breakout Productions)
  • Balls Up (Royal Blue Productions)
  • Hazbin Hotel S4 (Hazbin Hotel S3)
  • Hell Has No Fire Escape (Closer Stories)
  • Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel (H4 Film Productions)
  • Joseph of Egypt (Servo Productions 22)
  • Kill Jackie (Steel Springs Pictures)
  • Michael (Post Production Holdings No. 4)
  • One Piece S2 (NF Digital Land)
  • One Piece S3 (Springy Productions)
  • Resident Evil (Post Production Holdings No.6)
  • Runner (Runner Productions)
  • Send Help (TCS Australia Productions 4)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Springy Productions)
  • Untitled – TV series (Breakout Productions)
  • Wild Things (KKP Post Productions Aus)
  • Zombies 5: Secrets of the Sea (Slingshot Pictures)
SA VGD Rebate
Star Trek Lower Decks (2022)
Star Trek Lower Decks
  • ChronoForge (Minted Labs)
  • Project 11 (Mighty Kingdom Games)
  • Power Rangers Mighty Force (Mighty Kingdom Games)
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse (Mighty Kingdom Games)
  • Star Trek Lower Decks (Mighty Kingdom Games)
  • Makers Empire 3D (Maker’s Empire)
Screen Production Fund
A man dressed in an Aussie Snake Wranglers shirt holds up a small green snake.
Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit
  • Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit S3 (Breakout Productions)
  • The Weight of Us (Thibul Nettle)
The Mercury
  • First Nations Short Film Program (Phase 1 – Script Development Initiative)

Funding Approvals – 2025/2026 (Q3)

Attachment Scheme
John Jarratt as Mick Taylor leans against a blue ute holding a shotgun.
Wolf Creek Legacy
Professional Crew Attachments
  • Austin S3 – Lighting Department Attachment (Laura Kennedy)
  • Austin S3 – Sound Department Attachment (Evangeline Leonard)
  • Austin S3 – DIT Attachment (Pierah Summers)
  • Austin S3 – Grip Department Attachment (Jessica Mesecke)
  • Austin S3 – Director’s Attachment (Lily Drummond)
  • Wolf Creek Legacy – Grip Department Attachment (Rory Pippan)
  • Wolf Creek Legacy – 2nd Assistant Camera Attachment (Astra Vadoulis)
  • Untitled factual TV series – Associate Producer / Researcher Attachment (Tess Wood)
Conference and Market Subsidies
SA delegates at SCREEN FOREVER 2026
AIDC 2026 Subsidy
  • Closer Projects (Matthew Bate)
  • Gravity Films (Simon Williams)
  • Light Sound Art Film (Jolyon Hoff)
  • Mostly True Media (Sandy Cameron)
  • Raquel Trejo Aguilar
  • Repeater Productions (Ben Golotta)
  • Run Wild Pictures (Scott Baskett)
  • Shuying Grace Liu
  • Think Films (Lara Damiani)
  • Yasemin Sabuncu
SPA Screen Forever 2026 Subsidy
  • Closer Stories (Rebecca Summerton)
  • Closer Stories (Sarah Wormald)
  • Corner Table Productions (Marion Pilowsky)
  • Epic Films (Kirsty Stark)
  • Light Sound Art Film (Hamish Ludbrook)
  • Light Sound Art Film (Jolyon Hoff)
  • Stephanie Jaclyn
  • We Made A Thing (Tom Phillips)
  • Ruth Estelle
Export Market Travel Fund
Powerbomb Games and Pro Jank Footy.
Game Developers Conference (GDC)
  • Box Knight (We Made A Thing)
  • Pro Jank Footy (Powerbomb Games)
First Nations Practitioner Development Fund
Story Camp Aotearoa 2026
  • Flickerfest 2026 (Lilla Berry)
  • Story Camp Aotearoa 2026 (Edoardo Crismani)
  • Story Camp Aotearoa 2026 (Natasha Wanganeen)
  • Story Camp Aotearoa 2026 (Isaac Coen Lindsay)
Industry Sponsorship
AIDC 2026
  • AIDC 2026 (Australian International Documentary Conference Ltd)
  • Ausfilm – Annecy Animation Film Festival and Market (Ausfilm International Inc)
  • SPA Screen Forever 2026 (Screen Producers Association of Australia)
  • Script to Screen: Story Camp Aotearoa 2026
Matched Market Development Grant
  • Untitled – Feature film (Blanca Lista)
  • Untitled – Feature film (Closer Films)
  • Untitled – Feature film (Epic Films)
  • Untitled – Feature film (Nyawa Pictures)
  • Untitled – Feature film (Nyawa Pictures)
SA PDV Rebate
Jai Courtney holds a torch next to a puppet fox.
The Fox
  • Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit S2 (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
  • The Bluff (Servo Productions 22 Pty Ltd)
  • The Fox (Rackaway Pty Ltd)
  • Ghostwriter (Warner Bros. Feature Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Happy Gilmore 2 (Springy Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Orbiteers (Vishus Productions Holdings Pty Ltd)
  • The Run (Arterial Films Pty Ltd)
  • The Roses (TFCF Australian Productions Pty Ltd)
  • THUNDERBOLTS (Awesome Post Production Pty Ltd)
  • Wicker (Springy Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Wicked: For Good (Big Dipper Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – TV Special (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – TV series (NF Digital Land Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – TV series (NF Digital Land Pty Ltd)
SA VGD Rebate
Two anime-style characters hold up fists.
Guilty Gear Strive
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Guilty Gear Strive (Tantalus Media Pty Ltd)
  • Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Tantalus Media Pty Ltd)
  • North Star (Tantalus Media Pty Ltd)
  • Power Rangers: Mighty Force (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Project 11 (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Star Trek Lower Decks (Mighty Kingdom Games Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Game (Tantalus Media Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Game (Tantalus Media Pty Ltd)
Screen Production Fund
  • Untitled – TV Special (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Untitled – Feature Film (Bronte Studios Pty Ltd)

Funding Approvals – 2025/2026 (Q2)

ABC SAFC Content Pipeline Fund
Five cast members from the ABC series Austin stand amongst colourful balloons. Michael Theo holds a clapper board that reads Austin S3.
Austin S3
  • Kumarangk: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge (working title) (Carolyn Johnson Films Pty Ltd & Country Arts SA)
  • Austin S3 (Northern Pictures)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • The Ducktectives (Vishus Productions)
  • The Engagement (Closer Productions)
SA PDV Rebate
Bring Her Back
  • Apex (NF Ocean Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit (Aussie Snake Wranglers Pty Ltd)
  • Bring Her Back (Bring Her Back Films Pty Ltd)
  • Bull Shark Show Down (TV Sharks Pty Ltd)
  • Chasing Red (Servo Productions Pty Ltd)
  • Love At First Bite (Breakout Productions)
  • Marlin Kings (Breakout Productions)
  • Monarchy: Legacy of Monsters S2 (Hydronaut Australia Pty Ltd)
  • One Piece S2 (NF Digital Land Pty Ltd)
  • Saccharine (Saccharine Pty Ltd)
  • Superman (Warner Bros. Feature Productions)
  • War Machine (WM Movie Pty Ltd)
SA VGD Rebate
two animated wolves with gashes on them corner a deer in a forest. the text reads 'win multiplayer battles'.
Wolf Tales
  • Animal Kingdoms (Foxie Games)
  • Horse Riding Tales (Foxie Games)
  • Star Equestrian (Foxie Games)
  • Wolf Tales (Foxie Games)
Screen Production Fund
  • Love At First Bite (Breakout Productions)
  • Marlin Kings (Breakout Productions)

Funding Approvals – 2025/2026 (Q1)

ABC SAFC Content Pipeline Fund
  • Untitled – TV series (Breakout Productions Pty Ltd)
Attachment Scheme
Treasure & Dirt

Professional Crew Attachments

  • Treasure & Dirt – Art Department Attachment (Alannah Underdown)
  • Treasure & Dirt – Production Manager/Line Producer Attachment (Michelle Hardy)
Export Market Travel Fund
SA developers at Gamescom 2025

Gamescom 2025

  • Anvilheart (Towerpoint Games)
  • Bobarista (Emma Losin)
  • Castle Cab (Royal Reign Studios)
  • End of Ember (C.S Habel & D.S McGuiness & E.D Smith)
  • Kaiju Battle Simulator (Two Lives Left)
  • TOYA (The RnD Department)
Matched Market Development Grant
  • Forget Me, Not (Tamara Hardman)
  • Untitled – Feature film (Steel Springs Pictures)
SA PDV Rebate
  • The King of Kings (Applause DC Pty Ltd)
  • Jimpa (Jimpa Film Pty Ltd)
  • PLAY DIRTY (Servo Productions Services No. 4 Pty Ltd)
  • Sinners (Warner Bros. Feature Productions Pty Ltd)
  • DRAGN (Servo Productions 18 Pty Ltd)
  • A Minecraft Movie (Warner Bros. Feature Productions Pty Ltd)
Screen Production Fund
  • Untitled – Feature film
  • Ruby, Ruby (Demon Girl Productions Pty Ltd)
Industry Sponsorship
  • Gamescom 2025: SAGE Delegation (IGEA)

Past Funding Approvals

View funding approvals from previous years.

Image: Ladies in Black (2024)