Deadline: 22 February 2024
Screen Australia is pleased to announce its Enterprise 2024 program is now open for applications to foster sustainable screen businesses and careers for screen practitioners in key creative roles.
Screen Australia is calling for applications from ambitious screen production businesses and creators looking to capitalise on success and expand their capacity and influence in Australian storytelling. In addition to receiving Enterprise funding, successful applicants will receive supplementary support in the form of targeted learning modules and experienced mentors who can offer individualised creative, career and business expertise.
They’re encouraging confident and tactical proposals from a range of practitioners and businesses that drive the whole sector forward to meet domestic and global demand. By empowering the local talent and facilitating professional growth and skills development, they can continue to cultivate a dynamic, diverse and competitive screen industry.
The program is open to practitioners and businesses across First Nations, Scripted, Documentary, and Online areas of content creation. Enterprise funding continues to be available through the Business and People programs.
About Enterprise
- The Enterprise Program reopened in 2023 and consists of two programs: Business and People, and two streams within each: Generate and Premium and offers a secured funding amount for all successful applicants with $75,000 available for Enterprise People and $200,000 for Enterprise Business.
- Enterprise Business supports proposals from screen businesses that create change, growth and pathways to sustainability and have benefit to the screen industry more broadly.
- Generate supports establishing companies, generally within their first 5 years of operation.
- Premium supports established companies, generally with more than 5 years’ operation.
- Enterprise People supports placements for individuals that create a career defining development opportunity and support a sustainable and escalating screen career.
- Generate supports early career individuals in a domestic Australian context.
- Premium supports mid and established career individuals in an international context, in order to provide returns to the Australian market and industry.
- Screen Australia’s Enterprise program was first launched in 2009, with the most recent participants announced in August 2023. During this time, Screen Australia has invested over $45 million in the Enterprise program, to the benefit of more than 115 screen businesses and 118 individual creators.
For more information, visit Screen Australia.
