SCREEN AGENCIES
SCREEN AUSTRALIA
Email: info@screenaustralia.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 8113 5800
Screen Australia supports the development, production, promotion and distribution of Australian narrative (drama) and documentary screen content. The agency invests directly in Australian film, television, online titles and games. It also administers the Producer Offset tax incentive for Australian screen stories.
The agency also offers sector-building programs such as Enterprise, initiatives including Gender Matters and funding through Screen Australia’s First Nations Department.
Screen Australia represents Australia’s screen industry internationally, including at festivals, markets and major awards. The agency also tracks and reports on industry health, maintains a database of Australian titles called The Screen Guide and provides free industry resources via Screen News.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS
Our role is to provide an environment in which all Australians can access and benefit from communications services, creative experiences and culture.
Email: filmenquiries@arts.gov.au
CREATIVE AUSTRALIA
Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country’s official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia.
Email: enquiries@creative.gov.au
SCREEN QUEENSLAND
Screen Queensland is the Queensland Government-owned agency dedicated to growing a successful screen industry in the state.
Email: screenqld@screenqld.com.au
Phone: +61 7 3248 0500
GOLD COAST FILM COMMISSION
The new Gold Coast Film Commission is your one-stop shop for filming on the Gold Coast with diverse and awe-inspiring filming locations. More than just a destination – it’s a canvas for creativity.
Phone: +61 7 5581 7269
SCREEN TASMANIA
We provide grants and equity investments in the development and production of Tasmanian screen projects including short films, drama, documentaries, feature films, television series, video games and digital media, and provides direct support in the form of industry and professional development.
Email: info@screen.tas.gov.au
Phone: +61 3 6165 5070
SCREEN TERRITORY
Screen Territory is the Northern Territory (NT) Government’s screen industry agency responsible for supporting and developing the film, television and digital media industries within the Territory.
Email: screen.territory@nt.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 89515141
SCREENWEST
Screenwest is Western Australia’s screen industry development organisation. We offer competitive grant funding, incentives and locations assistance to support the development and production of screen projects in Western Australia.
Email: info@screenwest.com.au
Phone: +61 8 6169 2100
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION
South Australian Film Corporation is a South Australian Government statutory corporation established in 1972 to engage in film production and promote the film industry, located in Adelaide, South Australia.
Email: programs@safilm.com.au
Phone: +61 8 8394 2000
VICSCREEN
VicScreen is the Victorian Government’s creative and economic screen development agency. We work behind the scenes, supporting professionals, infrastructure, projects and events.
Email: contact@vicscreen.vic.gov.au
Phone: +61 3 9660 3200
INDUSTRY GUILDS
The Australian Screen Industry Guilds (ASIG) group consists of all the guilds, unions and professional associations that represent the Australian screen sector.
Australian Directors Guild (ADG)
Phone: +61 2 9555 7045
Email: admin@adg.org.au
Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC)
Email: agsc@agsc.org.au
Australia Screen Editors (ASE)
Phone: +61428244335
Email: office@screeneditors.com.au
Australian Writers Guild (AWG)
Phone: 1300 552 228
Email: admin@awg.com.au
Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS)
Email: secretary@cinematographer.net.au
Australian Production Design Guild (APDG)
Email: admin@apdg.org.au
Australian Screen Sound Guild (ASSG)
Email: admin@assg.org.au
Equity, Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA)
Phone: 1300 656 512
Email: federal@alliance.org.au
Screen Producers Australia (SPA)
Phone: +61 2 9360 8988
Email: spaa@spaa.org.au
Women in Film and Television Australia (WIFT)
Email: info@wiftaustralia.org.au
Visual Effects Society (VES)
Email: info@vesglobal.org
ADVOCACY AND OTHER INDUSTRY BODIES
APRA / AMCOS
As a rights management organisation, APRA AMCOS licences help music creators get paid for their work and provide a straightforward way to legally play and copy music. Royalties keep the music coming and ensure the industry’s future.
Ausfilm
Ausfilm connects the international film community with Australia’s screen incentives, talent and facilities.
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
The primary role of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a not-for-profit organisation, is to recognise, encourage, promote and celebrate film and television excellence in Australia, connecting Australian and international audiences with great Australian screen content.
The Academy serves as Australia’s most prestigious film and television membership body, bringing together and representing screen professionals from a cross-section of the screen industry in order to further screen excellence in Australia.
Australia has produced some of the best screen performers, practitioners and productions in the world, and the Academy remains committed to promoting, within Australia and internationally, Australia’s best and brightest screen professionals and the great Australian stories which they tell on the big and small screens.
Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF)
The Australian Children’s Television Foundation is a national not-for-profit children’s media production and policy hub. They aim to make children’s lives better through screen content that reflects our culture and values. To achieve this, they provide funding to Australian producers and contribute to policy development in the children’s television space.
Australian Independent Distributors Association
Trade body established to represent and promote the views and interests of Australian independent film distributors.
Community Broadcasting Foundation
Each year the Community Broadcasting Foundation grants funding to help community media organisations communicate, connect and share knowledge through independent radio, television and digital media. Their grants are allocated twice per year, with the majority of funding allocated in the first round.
Indigenous Languages and Arts Program
The Indigenous Languages and Arts Program (ILA) supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through languages and arts activities around Australia.
Inside Film
An Australian print and online trade publication for screen-content professionals in Australia and New Zealand.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)
The NFSA is Australia’s national audiovisual cultural institution. We collect, preserve and share Australia’s audiovisual culture.
Screenhub
Screenhub is a daily news, jobs and reviews service for film, television and multimedia professionals. It also provides links to current funding opportunities.
Screenrights
Screenrights is a non-profit organisation that pays secondary royalties to content creators, licenses educators, government and retransmitters to use broadcast programs, and provides rights and royalty management services to the screen industry.
Screen Safe Australia
Everyone involved in screen production – whether writers, producers, directors, grips, gaffers, stunt performers, runners or extras – need to work to create and promote a safety culture. This website is directed at productions of all levels in all media – from music videos to international co-productions.
Screen Well
We work with individuals, educators, businesses and industry to improve the mental health and wellbeing outcomes of the Australian Screen Industry.
Sustainable Screens Australia
Sustainable Screens Australia enables and encourages the Australian film and television industry to embed sustainability into the everyday.