AFC Broadband Cross-Media Production Initiative
AFC Broadband Cross-Media Production Initiative
Deadline: 3 February
A new partnership between the AFC and ABC New Media and Digital Services, the Broadband Cross-Media Production Initiative (BCPI) seeks to fund innovative documentary projects for multi-platform delivery, particularly via digital television and broadband. The initiative seeks projects that target young and/or educational audiences in innovative, challenging and original ways. For more information, visit: www.afc.gov.au.
AFC Podlove initiative
Deadline: 10 March
Podlove, a new initiative developed and funded by the AFC and SBSi, will explore the impact of digital communications on our relationships with friends, family, lovers and strangers. Five avant-garde documentaries of five minutes each will be broadcast on SBS television and be placed on an advanced interactive website. The Podlove films will use mixed media, utilising digital technologies and hybrid content to maximise the visual and aural aesthetics of the work, producing challenging and compelling stories with a strong narrative and universal appeal. Live action, animation, composite imagery, visual and aural processing, and archival as well as alternatively sourced material may be combined in the production of each documentary. Guidelines and application forms are now available on the AFC website: www.afc.gov.au.
AFC Travel Grants extended to digital sector
The AFC has extended its support for the digital sector with the introduction of a new funding strand in its Travel Grant program. The Type E Travel Grant will provide support for Australian interactive digital screen content practitioners to attend key international workshops, forums, conferences, festivals, events and financing markets. Created in response to the increase in innovative digital screen content, the grant expands the opportunities for local practitioners to represent their work in an international context, engage with leading industry figures, and further develop and finance their projects. New Travel Grant guidelines are now on the AFC website: www.afc.gov.au.
AFC Travel Grant Deadline
Deadline: 1 December
The deadline for Type B and Type C Travel Grants for producers to attend the European Film Market (EFM) is 1 December. Producers should note there are new Travel Grant guidelines on the AFC website (www.afc.gov.au). EFM runs from 9-19 February 2006 and is on in conjunction with the Berlin International Film Festival.