Screen Illawarra's Grants and Funding Workshop
Event description
What is the difference between Development, Production, or Post-Production Funding? How do you access these grants? Where can we learn about funding opportunities? What is required of you as a filmmaker in order to be eligible to apply? How to be a producer? What boxes to tick? What do you need in your application? As a director, does your visual decks help? Do you need big cast and key crew attached to be successful? Can you apply as an individual in need of a team?
Come along and find out!
Screen Illawarra is running a Grants and Funding workshop, with a panel of inspiring professional filmmakers, to learn about their experiences getting their projects up. We will hear case studies from all, and have time for questions to ensure the course is tailored to your needs.
This is specifically targeted at people interested in learning about filmmaking, possibly about to make a film and need some tips, or who have an interest in working as a writer / producer.
Where: UOW: Building 29. Room G10. Keiraville NSW 2500
When: 25th May 10am-2pm (with a 45min lunch break)
Cost: FREE for current Screen Illawarra members. Join now via our website.
About Our Event Moderator
Karen Illesca: Karen has recently returned to work within Screen Arts and Creative Industry, taking on ad hoc contracts as a Location Scout as well as On Set Locations and Location Manager on both short form and long form content. Based in Kiama, Karen is an enthusiast member of Screen Illawarra and is a founding partner of 2Kats Productions along with fellow member Phillippa Webb.
About Our Guest Speakers
Yolandi Franken: Originally from South Africa, Yolandi Franken is a Film and TV Producer, TV-host and industry all-rounder. Nominated as Australian of the Year in 2015, she has produced four feature films, two unscripted television series and a three-part documentary series called , as well as hundreds of shorter format stories. These productions were accepted and awarded at numerous prestigious film festivals, going on to receive worldwide distribution with platforms such as Amazon Prime, Tubi, Google Play, Apple TV, Plex and many others and had theatrical distribution for three of her feature films. Her film “Streets of Colour” was nominated for an AACTA and SPA award in 2024. She is also the NSW Board Member of WIFT (Women in Film & Television) and previous secretary. She is the creator of Cause Film Festival, which she ran for three years before passing on her role as Festival Director. She has worked all over the world, including China, Hong Kong, South Africa, India, Dominican Republic and the USA.
Victoria Wharfe Mcintyre: Victoria’s films have screened in over 200 festivals and won over 70 international awards including BAFTA and AACTA. Her film THE TELEGRAM MAN, regarded as a film of artistic, cultural and historical significance by the OSCARS Academy Awards Film Archive is part of its permanent collection at the Pickford Centre in Hollywood. MIRO was nominated for Best Short Film in the 2017 AACTA awards and in 2020 the Academy listed it as one of the best short films of the decade. Acknowledged as a film of national significance MIRO is held by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Victoria’s debut feature THE FLOOD began a theatrical run December 2020 received an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts nomination (AACTA) and appeared in David Stratton’s Best Films of 2020 piece for The Australian newspaper. “An ambitious slice of Australian history...formidable debut for director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre...THE FLOOD is, in many ways spectacular...production values are first class...an ambitiously conceived epic.” THE FLOOD was released by Madman Entertainment across all VOD platforms in Australia in 2021 and held the number one spot on STAN streaming service across several weeks of its SVOD release. THE FLOOD was released in US/UK/Latin America/European/Asian territories in 2022/2023.
Come prepared with lots of questions, a keen attitude to learn, a notepad for your notes, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Please note: The event videographer is McKenzee Scrine and the photographer will be Matt Houston from Ironbark Photography. If you have any issues with being photographed on the day, please contact us directly.