AFI Research Collection's List: Community Cultural Development Film Projects

The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. We support Australia’s arts through funding, strengthening and developing the arts sector.
We collaborate to build new audiences, foster philanthropic support and deepen our understanding of the arts through research.
Each year, we deliver more than $160 million in funding for arts organisations and individual artists across the country.

Asian Australian actors, directors, writers, producers, scholars and community members share their creative visions, experiences, advice and talk about why it’s important to have Asian Australians active on and behind the screen. Created and edited by Maria Tran, screened at the Asian Australian Film Forum & Network inaugural event November 2011.

A list of Australian and New Zealand Film Offices / Regional Councils. These links were last updated in 2008 but ought to provide a good place to start when considering the community cultural development of film production.

A Melbourne based filmmaker.

Qing Xie graduated from the Victorian College of Arts with her film Red Water Red winning the Film Victoria Award, Best Film (GDipFT) and which went on to captivate audiences across Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2010, she was selected by acclaimed auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien to attend the 47th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Film Academy, where she was mentored by the 2010 Festival de Cannes Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.)

Red Water Red - A Qing Xie film.

Change Media has evolved from the award winning Hero Project. We use digital media to empower communities to skill-up and share their stories across the globe.

Bankstown City Council’s Annual Grants Program provides financial support to enable local community based organisations to develop and implement initiatives that enhance individual and/or community well-being in the Bankstown Local Government Area.
Grants are provided under the categories of Community, Youth, Arts/Cultural, Sport and Recreation.

To attract feature film and television projects to Queensland in recognition of the significant economic and industry benefits they provide, particularly in the areas of employment, training and professional development, and infrastructure development.

The ACT Office of Film, Television & Digital Media, ScreenACT, supports the growth of the local screen industry and provides assistance to visiting productions to help you find the right location and production support from our local industry.

Screen NSW stimulates creative and business opportunities in the screen industry. We promote innovation in screen content and technology, and champion the contribution the NSW screen industry makes to our culture, economy and society.

Screen Territory through the Screen Grants Funding Program aims to stimulate industry and professional development, and screen production in the Northern Territory.
The Program invests in quality screen projects, screen businesses and talented people.

The purpose of the South Australian Film Corporation is to empower the South Australian screen production industry to achieve success. Through a range of industry development and production programs, the South Australian Film Corporation partners with the local, national and international industry to deliver quality outcomes, whilst fostering a local environment that encourages creativity and enables development of talented screen practitioners.

We support and invest in film, television, digital media projects and screen industry practitioners.
We provide funding at various stages of development, across a diversity of screen platforms, and for emerging through to established practitioners.
We work closely with industry and government to position Victoria as a leader in the Australian knowledge and ideas economy through the growth and development of the screen industry.

ScreenWest is Western Australia's screen funding and development agency, committed to working in partnership with the screen industry to develop, support and promote film, television and digital media production in Western Australia.

Screen Tasmania provides loans, grants and equity investments in the development, production and marketing of Tasmanian screen projects, including short films, drama, documentaries, feature films, TV series and digital media.