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Travel Grants |
Screen Australia offers five types of Travel Grants for industry practitioners: Additional travel assistance is also available for:
The goals of these grants are:
TYPE A
To enable film and television practitioners to attend screenings of their work at selected key international festivals and events; enhance the profile of a film at a festival; and increase its appeal to the international marketplace while offering professional development opportunities for the recipient.
TYPE B
To assist market-experienced film and television producers to attend international markets to secure finance for a project or slate of projects; and enable producers to put in place the final elements of a financing plan for a well-progressed project or slate of projects.
TYPE C
To provide producers with minimal or no experience of international film and television financing markets, who have a project to pitch, the opportunity to attend an international market, develop their financing skills and further their project(s).
TYPE D
To provide support for producers whose projects have been invited into key internationally recognised pitching forums/competitions.
TYPE E
To provide support for interactive digital screen content practitioners who have been invited to take part in, or whose projects are featured at, a key international interactive digital screen content workshop, forum, conference, festival, or event, and/or practitioners attending a key international interactive digital screen content market seeking finance.
TYPE F
To enable film, television and digital media practitioners the opportunity to travel to an international event that is not listed in any of the eligible events under Type A, D and E.
Information on Eligibility and General Criteria for Travel Grants is available in the Funding Guidelines and Application Form. You can download these by clicking on the link below.
Please contact the Marketing Information Officer, Marketing Support and Promotion Division, to confirm your eligibility before applying for a Travel Grant.
Marketing Information Officer contact details:
Ph: 02 8113 5800/1800 213 099
Email: Email: festivals@screenaustralia.gov.auUSEFUL RESOURCESResources are available on the Screen Australia website that can help you prepare for the event, including 'Tips for Filmmakers' and 'International Festival Profiles'.
'Tips for Filmmakers' offers plenty of helpful hints from filmmakers who have attended festivals and markets in recent years. Click on 'International Festival Profiles' or 'International Markets' links under SEE ALSO below and and select the appropriate event.
'International Festival Profiles' outlines the 50 key festivals (including travel grant festivals) with introductions from the festival directors, information on the festival's categories and details on Australian films that have screened in previous years. Click on the link under SEE ALSO below.
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 Travel Grant Program - Funding Guidelines January-June 2009
 Travel Grant Program - Application Form January-June 2009
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International Festival Profiles
International Markets
Distribution & Broadcasting
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Elissa Down, writer/director of The Black Balloon, received a travel grant to attend the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2008.
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Son of a Lion's writer/director Benjamin Gilmour received a Travel Grant to attend the Berlin International FIlm Festival
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