Screen Australia selects four Hot Shots

Four teams have been selected for the Hot Shots: Short Fiction Funding program and will receive a total of $280,000 in support from Screen Australia.

Screen Australia's Head of Production, Sally Caplan, said, It is fantastic to see the amount of budding talent we have in this country. We received a lot of applications for this program and wish we had been able to support more. We are pleased to back such a great range of emerging talent with a wide variety of vibrant stories.

Writer/director Sarah-Jane Woulahan and producers Anna Kojevnikov and Sally Storey will be supported to produce A Terrible Beauty, a science fiction film that follows Olivia as she questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love, after her father destroys her prototype Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother.

Writer/director Matthew Richards and producer Brendan Guerin's film The Disappearance of Willie Bingham is an absurdist horror film based on the short story The Wilbur Bledsoe Amputations' by Michael L Fawcett, where in the future, amputations replace incarceration and the death penalty.

From writer/director Lucy Gaffy and producer Kiki Dillon comes Elvis, a drama based on a story by executive producer Michaela Perske, about a young girl trapped in a seaside caravan park who thinks up a scheme to break free and make a better life for herself.

The team behind Whirlpool consists of writer/director Corrie Jones and producers Melissa Kelly and Jaclyn Hewer. The film is based on the short story Cumberland Breakdown' by Joyce Carol Oates and involves Regan who, after losing her father in a fire, sets out with her friend Lucas to seek retribution on the couple they believe are responsible for his death.

The Hot Shots: Short Fiction Funding program supports practitioners refining their skills to make a feature film.

The deadline for the second round of the Hot Shots: Short Fiction Funding program is 20 March 2015.

HOT SHOTS: SHORT FICTION PRODUCTION

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WILLIE BINGHAM

Genre Horror Absurdist

Writer/Director Matthew Richards

Producer Brendan Guerin

Synopsis In the future, amputations replace incarceration and the death penalty. Based on the short story The Wilbur Bledsoe Amputations by Michael L Fawcett.

ELVIS

Genre Drama

Writer/Director Lucy Gaffy

Producer Kiki Dillon

Executive Producer Michaela Perske

Synopsis Trapped in a seaside caravan park, little Elvis thinks up a scheme to break free, determined to make a better life for herself.

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Genre Science Fiction

Writer/Director Sarah-Jane Woulahan

Producers Anna Kojevnikov, Sally Storey

Synopsis After her father destroys her prototype Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother, Olivia questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love.

WHIRLPOOL

Genre Drama

Writer/Director Corrie Jones

Producers Melissa Kelly, Jaclyn Hewer

Synopsis After Regan's father is killed in a fire, Regan and her friend, Lucas, set out to seek retribution on the couple who they believe are responsible for his death. Based on the short story Cumberland Breakdown by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Annaliese Zuzarte T: 02 8113 5833; M: 0404 877 887

annaliese.zuzarte@screenaustralia.gov.au

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