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New TV projects in development funding

Grudge-bearing garden gnomes, a cautionary tale on golfing and a supernatural teen drama amongst new development projects.

Screen Australia has announced over $400,000 of Story Development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series.

The TV slate includes a comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, a cautionary tale on golfing and a supernatural teen drama.

“The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the number of applications we’re receiving per week is steadily increasing,” said Nerida Moore, Head of Development at Screen Australia.

“As well as innovative and exciting projects from established practitioners, we are starting to see new and emerging voices from around Australia coming through. In this funding round I’m particularly delighted to see so many emerging female writers.”

NB: As titles are in early development, same may become Online projects.

TV & Online:

The Fairway
Cordell Jigsaw Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Crime
Executive Producers Nathan Earl, Damian Davis
Series Producer Georgie Lewin
Director Nathan Earl
Writers Nathan Earl, Tim Lee, Georgie Lewin
Synopsis: Every Golfer has a ‘nearly made it’ story. Cautionary tales of careers made, dreams destroyed and nerves put to the test. This is one such story.

Overheater
Closer Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Science Fiction, Comedy
Producers Kirsty Stark, Sophie Hyde
Writer/Director Matt Vesely
Synopsis: Overheater is a sci-fi comedy set in a lazily dystopian world, in which a young couple must negotiate life and love while dealing with their new house guest – a depressed robot shopkeeper they’ve saved from the scrap heap.

The Agency
Ambience Entertainment Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Musical
Executive Producer Michael Boughen, Jason Haig-Ellery
Co-creator and Producer Monica O’Brien
Writers Joel Slack-Smith, Penny Greenhalgh, Roger Drew, Warren Coleman, Steve Abbott, Mathila Gupta, Kodie Bedford
Director TBC
Synopsis: Selling your soul to the Devil. It’s just a figure of speech, right? The Agency is an outrageous musical comedy that explores moral corruption.

The Gathering
Nicholas Murray Verso trading as Asphodel Films
Genre Thriller, Mystery
Writer/Director Nicholas Verso
Writers Craig Irwin, Kodie Bedford
Synopsis: A group of disillusioned teens discover they have been chosen to battle a centuries-old evil simmering within their small town.

Flesh Without Blood
Thumper Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Thriller, Science Fiction
Producers Christopher Sharp, Morgan Benson-Taylor
Writer Jessica Redenbach
Director Melvin Montalban
Synopsis: When Ana, a professor of robotics, develops an IVF capability for her ubiquitous domestic robot, she inadvertently gives the robot a consciousness, setting in motion a series of events that will threaten her marriage and her life.

Second Time
Thumper Pictures Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Science Fiction
Writer/Director Danielle Baynes
Producer Christopher Sharp
Writers Nora Niasari, Natasha Pincus
Synopsis: Set in the near future, Second Time is a web series about the lives of a group of 16-year-old girls in high school exploring sexuality, relationships and connection in a tech dominated world.

Class of ’07
Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy
Writer/Director Kacie Anning
Producer Mimi Butler
Writer TBC
Synopsis: When an apocalyptic tidal wave hits during the ten year reunion of an all-girls college, a group of women must find a way to survive on the island peak of their high school campus.

Gnomes
The Two Jons Pty Ltd
Genre Comedy, Horror
Director/Producer Joel Kohn
Producer Richard Kelly, John Molloy
Writers Tegan Higginbotham, Paul Verhoeven
Synopsis: These garden ornaments have a grudge and gnome-one is getting out alive!

Blood Sisters (Online)
Mad Dan Productions Pty Ltd
Genre Drama, Thriller
Writer/Director/Producer Madeleine Dyer
Executive Producer Steven Corvini, Enzo Tedeschi
Writer/Producers Daniel Mulvihill, Anthony Mullins
Writer Kodie Bedford
Synopsis: Three girls bonded by a death, united by the truth.

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