October 7, 2024

Screen Australia has announcd over $5.2 million in funding for 18 Enterprise People opportunities and 18 Enterprise Business proposals

The Enterprise Business program supports screen businesses to create change, grow their business and build pathways to sustainability.

The Enterprise People stream creates career defining development opportunities and supports placements for practitioners to escalate their screen careers.

Screen Australia’s First Nations Department has invested $1 million into the program which will support four First Nations Business including Djali House, Lone Star Company, No Coincidence Media, and Pandamonium Films, and three practitioners including Travis Akbar, Isaac Cohen Lindsay and Joshua Yasserie.

Screen Australia COO Grainne Brunsdon said, “We are committed to helping create sustainable businesses, fostering creative entrepreneurship and supporting individuals build their careers and produce Australian stories for the global industry. We’re thrilled to support such a diverse range of businesses from across Australia, and placements that will provide crucial upskilling for local practitioners as they develop their careers here and all over the world.”

The 2024 Enterprise People recipients and the placements they will take up are:

Travis Akbar – Dicentium Films
Kacie Anning – Paper Planes
Laki Baker – Artemis Media
Allison Brownmoore – SAM Content
Sarah Carroll – Purple Carrot Entertainment
Ruby Davis – Arenamedia
Michael Drake – Sinking Ship Entertainment
Chris Eley – ZED Productions
Lina Foti – Ouray Pictures Inc
Sam Icklow – Archipelago Productions
Shelly Lauman – Easy Tiger Productions
Isaac Coen Lindsay – We Made A Thing Studios
Courtney Mulvay – Wheels Rolling
Georgia Noe – Cultivator Films
Nadia Townsend – Aquarius Films
Anna Vincent – Zephyr Films
Joshua Yasserie – Studio Gilay
Debbie Zhou – Fable Pictures

The 2024 Enterprise Business recipients are:

Artemis Media
Djali House
Factor 30 Films
indiVisual Films – International
Kapwa
Lantern Pictures
Lone Star Media
Mad Ones Films
Magpie Pictures
New Mac
Never/ Sleep Pictures
No Coincidence Media
Pandamonium Films
Shop 15 Productions (Slag Productions)
Ten 4 Media
Thousand Mile Productions
Walking Fish Productions
Wild Pacific Media

Since launching in 2009, Screen Australia’s Enterprise program has supported more than 133 screen businesses and 136 individual creators, investing over $50 million in the program.

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