We acknowledge and respect the Traditional Owners of lands across Australia, their Elders, Ancestors, cultures and heritage, and recognise the continuing sovereignties of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations.

We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which the ACTF is based and pay our respect to their Elders past and present.

We are honoured to have the opportunity to learn from the oldest cultural storytellers in the world and seek to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners to share their rich culture and perspectives with children in Australia and around the world via stories on screen.

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2020 Screenrights’ Cultural Fund Now Open

Screenrights’ 2020 Cultural Fund is now open for applications.

The fund supports initiatives and projects that make a broad positive contribution to industry development in Australia and New Zealand. This year’s focus is ‘new voices’. Up to $50,000 per initiative will be distributed to successful projects that capture the key qualities of: diversity; innovation; inspiration; collaboration; and transparency.

The Screenrights’ Cultural Fund is not a production fund. Rather, it is looking for projects which provide solutions to overcoming barriers to access and use of meaningful screen content for teachers and students in education and training.

The fund aims to support new projects that are innovative, display professional craft and represent a benchmark of excellence in their field.

Since its establishment in 2018, the cultural fund has invested in projects such as: a new screen content delivery platform controlled by eyes, muscle and the mind; an app for sharing culturally significant Indigenous material in schools; and a program to build new screen audiences in rural areas of Australia.

Projects that have a positive impact on increasing diversity are highly valued. The Cultural Fund supports a wide range of projects, from individual activities to large-scale initiatives.

Applications for the Cultural Fund are open until 5PM AEST on Wednesday 29 April. To learn more, visit: www.screenrights.org/cultural-fund.