Screen Cultures

BTS ‘NIGHT BLOOMERS’ SIZZLE REEL, DIRECTOR ANDREW UNDI LEE, 2021. PHOTO KEVIN LEE

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Screen Cultures

The Screen Cultures Program supports new stories and storytellers, and delivers professional development opportunities for screen practitioners from communities that remain largely underrepresented in the screen industry. Our remit is First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) entry-level, early career and mid-career screen practitioners in Western Sydney and beyond. Collaborating with creative communities and industry and educational partners, the program works across three key areas:

  • developing craft skills and professional engagement opportunities for new storytellers – to diversify the stories on our screens 
  • brokering pathways to jobs in the screen industry for content creators as well as addressing the shortages in below-the-line jobs – to diversify the work force in the screen industry
  • engaging the screen sector – to diversify the sector and work with the industry to establish leading practice in the diversity on screen space. 

 

 

 

We co-design development activities and incubator programs with storytellers from underrepresented communities to be the authors of original, new works, including:

  • Pacific Noir – an incubator program developing a slate of projects by creative from Pasifika communities 
  • Night Bloomers – an anthology of horror stories from the Korean diaspora, led by an emerging showrunner from the local community, working with Australian-Korean creatives
  • Afro Sistahs – supporting a creative collective of young women from Australian-African communities to develop a self-titled feature film

We work with educational partners including TAFE NSW, and industry partners such as Panavision and Moneypenny Production Accounting Services, to address skill sets and pathways to jobs in the industry that address the shortages in below-the-line jobs. And with international partners such as Film Independent, USA, and the For Film’s Sake initiative, we support innovative talent pipelines to support diverse creatives to make their projects market-ready. We facilitate opportunities for communities of creatives to network with broadcasters including SBS, STAN, Amazon, Foxtel/Binge and ABC.

CAST OF ‘DEITY’ PILOT, DIRECTOR TAOFIA PELESASA, 2021. PHOTO: KUMEHANI KOTEKA

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