Deadline: 08-Oct-2024
The Community Film Festival Opening Night Fund will offer grants to established community-driven film festivals to enhance their opening nights and bring communities together to celebrate and connect through film.
Objectives
- The aims of the program are to:
- Support film festivals right across the state via their Opening Night event
- Ease the financial burden on small-medium film festivals that demonstrate a strong community origin and base
- Complement the existing funding available for film and community festivals in the state, including Screen NSW’s Audience Development Fund and Destination NSW’s Regional Event Fund
- Build audiences and community engagement
- Have an impact on audiences and communities in NSW
- Support impactful festivals which are also evolving to be relevant to future audiences and the screen industry
- Support underrepresented communities to tell their stories
- Showcase the rich cultural diversity of NSW.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount is $5,000 per applicant.
- Organisations applying for funding are expected to secure other sources of income or in-kind support wherever feasible. Income may be derived from sources such as sponsorships, grants or subsidies from other agencies, revenue from ticket sales, fundraising and other activities.
Eligible Projects
- Funding is available to support:
- Venue hire
- Interpreters (language and/or Auslan)
- Cost associated with hosting a Welcome to Country ceremony
- Marketing and promotional costs for the event
- Culturally appropriate hospitality (e.g. catering) and entertainment (e.g. artist costs such as band/musicians)
- Transportation Costs (including reasonable travel expenses for the Opening Night film’s key creatives to attend for a speaking opportunity)
- Licensing fee for the Opening Night film
- Equipment hire
- Documentation (photography or videography)
- Other event costs related to an Opening Night celebration.
Ineligible Projects
- Funding for the Community Film Festival Opening Night Program will not be available for:
- Costs towards alcoholic beverages
- Costs related to ongoing programming of the festival
- Activities that have also received funding from Screen NSW or Create NSW for the same activity in the same financial year
- Costs incurred before the execution of a Funding Grant Agreement
- Development of production of screen content including festival trailers
- Awards or competition component of a film festival
- Operational costs
- Costs towards ongoing/existing staff
- Any other costs not related to the Opening Night event
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding for the Program is open to:
- Organisations, including companies and not for profit incorporated bodies, co-operatives, trusts or local government authorities
- A consortium or a group of organisations working collaboratively
- Applicants must be an Australian organisation with an ABN.
- To be eligible for funding, organisations must be legally constituted and financially solvent.
Applicants need to provide proof of their legal status. - Applicants must be an Australia-based organisation also adhere to the general eligibility requirements under the Screen NSW Terms of Trade.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applications for the funding will not be accepted from:
- Individuals, partnerships or groups of individuals and unincorporated organisations
- Government departments and agencies, primary and secondary schools, tertiary institutions and TAFE colleges
- Previous Screen NSW or Create NSW funding recipients who have not fulfilled the conditions of the funding and/or who are overdue in acquitting prior funding
- Festivals receiving a NSW Government contribution of over $150,000
- Festivals with an annual budget of over $1,500,000
- Multi-disciplinary or cultural festivals where screenings and screen culture account for less than 75% of programming activity.
For more information, visit Screen NSW.