Artists come together for HIVE Lab

$800,000 is available for new screen-based projects that will premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC TV.

The Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Television will each contribute $200,000 each to the HIVE Production Fund, to nurture innovative works that cross the film/art divide.

The Fund will be open to all Australian artists and filmmakers.

The announcement was made at the Melbourne Festival where a HIVE Lab brings filmmakers and artists together including  Bill Henson, Dr Brenda Croft, Eddie Perfect, Sam Haren, Daniel Koerner, Rachael Swain, Cat Jones, Lally Katz and Sean Riley; filmmakers Samantha Lang, Sophie Raymond, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Paola Morabito, Nassiem Valamanesh, Eddie White, Natasha Pincus and Lucinda Clutterbuck; and artist and filmmaker John Gillies.

SA Minister John Hill said “The South Australian Government is proud to see the HIVE Lab grow from its beginnings in Adelaide Film Festival and to celebrate the extraordinary outcomes that it delivers.”

Adelaide Film Festival Director Amanda Duthie said “The first HIVE Fund (2011) of $600,000 was amazing enough but to have another fund, a bigger fund, is incredible news for Australian artists and filmmakers to make big bold art films”.

ABC TV Head of Arts Katrina Sedgwick said, “The HIVE Lab and Fund offer artists and filmmakers an invitation to collaborate and make work for a venue that is accessible to everyone – TV. We’re thrilled to be working with our Fund partners in this bold initiative.”

Projects which will have their world premieres at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival and then air on ABC1 are Tender by Lynette Wallworth, I Want to Dance Better At Parties by Gideon Obazarnek and The Boy Castaways from Michael Kantor.