2024-25 Highlights

Production and Funding

• $6,156,725 spent on productions, with a further $4,983,462 committed to projects at financing stage. 
• $1,081,536 was spent on script development, going to 25 projects.
• Five ACTF-supported programs premiered during the year: Kangaroo Beach Series 3, Kangaroo Beach Mountain Mystery Special, Space Nova Series 2, Little J & Big Cuz Series 4 and RUNT.
• Five further ACTF-supported programs were in production during the year: Tales from Outer Suburbia, Knee High Spies, Happy House, Whale Shark Jack and Ginger and the Vegesaurs Series 4.
• Five further productions were financed during the year, with production to commence in the 2025-2026 financial year: Caper Crew, three yet-to-be announced series and one unannounced animated feature film.
• We partnered with Screen Australia to deliver the Kids IP Incubator, an initiative to empower eight creative teams to experiment, learn and develop IP for digital-first platforms like YouTube.

Awards

• The first family film from the Stan/ACTF partnership, Windcatcher, has had a high profile on the festival and awards circuit. The film won the 2025 BANFF World Media Festival Rockies Awards Best Live Action for Children in June 2025, as well as the MIPCOM Diversify TV Excellence Award for Representation of Diversity in Kids Programming (Older Children) in October 2024. Windcatcher also received the Screen Producers Australia Award for Children’s Production of the Year in May 2025.
• The animated series Tales From Outer Suburbia was selected for the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival in France, screening the episode ‘Distant Rain’.
• Other award highlights include the theatrical family feature film RUNT, which won the Screen Producers Australia Award for Best Feature Film Production of the Year in March 2025, and Eddie’s Lil’ Homies being named the National Winner (AU/NZ Region) for Best Animated Series at the Asian Academy Creative Awards.

International Sales

The ACTF launched four new programs to the market and secured international sales totalling $1,470,126 with 26 different broadcasters. Sales highlights included sales of Hardball, Little Lunch, Spellbinder, Windcatcher, Built To Survive and The Inbestigators. Broadcasters acquiring ACTF shows during the period include Canal+ (France), National Geographic (USA), DR TV (Denmark), Canal Futura (Brazil), Téle-Québec (Canada), Canal Panda (Spain), FNX (USA), SRK ShowTime (Bangladesh), Netflix (USA), APTN (Canada), SVT (Sweden), BYUtv (USA) and many more.

Education and Outreach

• The ACTF created a dedicated standalone education website, which launched in February 2025. Designed with teacher accessibility at its core, the platform offers curriculum-aligned content, interactive activities and practical tools that bring screen stories into the classroom in powerful and purposeful ways.
• Key achievements this year include our first curated clip collections, featuring content from multiple series exploring the topics Consent and Respectful Relationships and Civics and Citizenship, which have been viewed by educators nationwide.
• We also featured Australia’s first astronaut, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, in an exclusive interview for the Space Nova Series 2 resource, inspiring students through real-world connections to science, space and storytelling.
• 10 new learning resources were released during the year, supporting teachers to use quality Australian programs in classrooms.
• Three virtual workshops were held for 10,890 students and teachers in 315 schools.

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