05/11/2024
📣Calling emerging and early career SA filmmakers!❗️
🥳Applications for the next round of Quicksilver Production Funding are now open. The fund supports the professional development of creative talent by providing funded production opportunities of short form content that demonstrates an authentic, original artistic vision.
😎With a total of $136,000 in funding and mentoring support, this is an outstanding opportunity for projects ready to commence production for the first half of 2025. Eight creative teams will be awarded grants ranging from $8,000 to a whopping $50,000 to produce a short film or the pilot of a web series.
At least 2x $10,000 grants will be awarded to projects with a majority of First Nations as key creatives, as part of The Mercury's commitment to fostering the development of South Australia's First Nations filmmakers. Projects, up to 15-minutes in duration, can be narrative fiction, documentary or animation.
💡More details: 🔗https://themercury.org.au/industry-support/quicksilver-production-funding/
📌Applicants must be Mercury Subscribers.
Subscribe to access all Industry Development programs, production facilities and equipment, cinema tickets & more for $300/year or $25/month!
🔗https://themercury.org.au/subscriptions/
📃Interested filmmakers are encouraged to attend an information session with Michelle Hardy, Head of Industry Programs at The Mercury, for an in-depth look at the application process 6:00-9:00pm Tuesday 12 November 2024 at the Mercury 🔗https://themercury.org.au/special_events/quicksilver-information-session/
Join the ranks of Alice Yang, Director of Finding Jia, 2022 Quicksilver Production Fund Recipient and Winner of the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival Short Film Award.
