Seven film-based projects have been selected to receive funds from the ACT Screen Arts Fund, which provides Screen Canberra with $100,000 each year for one-off screen and film projects aimed at small-scale self-identified film and screen activity, including career development, short films, documentaries, scripts, and games development.
CJ Shaw, Ain’t Many Like Lennie, stop motion film clip $5,000 to $50,000 Arts Activities funding recipient 2021. Courtesy the artist and artsACT, Australian Capital Territory
The grantees and their film-based projects are: Prajdnik Awasthi to support post-production of an animated short film Marionettes (and the virtue of a lotus flower); Jessica Beange for mentorship to develop scripts and pitch documents to market for Summer Camp, Leona and Victims of Crime; Nathan Collett for the production of a cinematic documentary exploring the relationship between wild peacocks and human residents in an Australian suburb; Nick Delatovic to develop a script for a supernatural neo-western feature film titled Bleeding Heart; Eleanor Evans’ grant will assist the development/pre-production of a stop motion short film based on the story The Fairy Woman and the Three Cockerels by Pixie O’Harris; Kite Shield Interactive will develop the Legion Fall, a new role-playing game that explores Roman history and mythology in the Gallic wars of 52 BC; and Christine Ryan will develop an eight-part comedy series about anxiety and life called the Ninja Worrier.
