Industry Alert: Screen Australia funds eight new Hot Shots teams

Screen Australia today announced the eight new Hot Shots teams who will share in more than $545,000 of Screen Australia funding to produce their short films and develop their distinctive storytelling and creative production skills. These shorts will be used as proof of concept for longer form projects to get traction in the market place. They are an important part of building career pathways toward a variety of long form storytelling across film, television, online and interactive platforms.

The teams will also attend a two-day Hot Shops workshop at Screen Australia this month.

Hot Shops is a series of industry-led workshops and seminars that immerse writers, directors and producers in a craft-based learning environment to further their filmmaking skills. The Hot Shops program will connect teams with carefully selected mentors to workshop their creative processes.

Mentors include some of the most exciting talent in the industry: director Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays); editor Drew Thompson (Down Under); sound designer Jed Palmer (The Infinite Man); and Felicity Abbott (Secret City and Bran Nue Day).

The eight successful teams are working on a diverse group of projects across genres including drama, thriller, action, horror, romantic and coming-of age stories and for live action, animation and completion funding. Screen Australia congratulates the successful applicants in this Hot Shots funding round:

On his trip through the middle of Australia, a Chinese man sees our coat of arms in a very different light. Coat of Arms is a Western drama-thriller from writer-director Dylan McDonald (Dylan River) and producers Trisha Morton-Thomas and Rachel Clements.

From writer-director Alex Holmes, producers Kristina Ceyton, Ella Millard and executive producer Samantha Jennings is the coming-of-age story Grace, about a teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect who strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.

In animation Knot, a woollen doll must unravel himself and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save his beloved. From writer Bradley Sabe with director Andrew Goldsmith, and producer Lucy Hayes.

Comedy-drama Let's See How Fast This Baby Will Go is writer-director Julietta Boscolo, producer Eva Di Blasio and executive producer Robyn Kershaw's story of a young woman negotiating her first car purchase while having her first baby.

In drama Passengers, a frustrated father resorts to desperate measures to spend more time with his six year-old son. From writer-director Simon Portus and writer-producer David Curzon.

Scrub is the thriller from writer-director Mirrah Foukes and producer Alex White about a woman's disturbing encounter while walking her dog in the bush.

In Tanglewood, Sarah and Zach escape to the forest after a mysterious plague forces them out of the city. From writer-director Jordan Prosser and producer Steven McKinnon.

Writer-director Nora Niasari and producer Mary Minas' family drama The Waterfall is the story of how a road trip meant to unite a new family ends up dissolving into disharmony when technology fails en route to a magnificent waterfall.

Screen Australia's Senior Development Executive Nerida Moore congratulated the new Hot Shots teams on their successful applications. We are proud to be able to support exciting and dynamic filmmaking teams and to assist the creative groups behind them to develop their craft and talent. Congratulations to the latest group of Hot Shots, she said.

For enquiries please contact Tamara Zimet, Screen Australia

Tel +612 8113 5800 | Mobile 0405 185 699 | tamara.zimet@screenaustralia.gov.au

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