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. 

Click here to check out the NSW’s Top Talent Short Film Showcase we are presenting as part of SXSW Sydney!