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Eligibility

The applicant must meet the eligibility criteria detailed in the General Guidelines and Terms of Trade (PDF 2.5 MB), and must be a company incorporated in Australia, which is carrying on business in Australia and has its central management and control in Australia.
To be successful, the applicant must be the producer and/or holder of the appropriate rights and licenses to produce the project. At the time of application, this can be warranted, but chain of title will need to be confirmed before drawdown of any funds.
The application must meet at least one of the following:

  1. The applicant is a Tasmanian resident production company
  2. The applicant is in a financial partnership with a Tasmanian resident production company, or
  3. At least one of the credited key creatives (producer, writer and/or director) of the project is a Tasmanian resident or ex-patriate.

For a short-form series project, however, the applicant must be a Tasmanian resident production company.

  1. In recognition of the program’s aim to increase production expenditure in the state, Screen Tasmania requires:
    For each project seeking less than $50,000 in funding, the majority of the budget to be spent on eligible Tasmanian goods, services and projects
  2. For projects seeking above $50,000 in support funding, minimum spends in Tasmania must be met depending on the format and genre:
    1. For live action scripted projects, a minimum spend-to-investment ratio of 4:1 must be met. For example, for a long-form comedy series seeking $250,000 of support, the project must incur at least $1 million of eligible Tasmanian expenditure
    2. For factual, interactive and animation projects, the minimum ratio is 3:1, so for a documentary seeking $100,000, the minimum eligible Tasmanian expenditure is $300,000.

The project must satisfy the following:

  • The majority of finance must in place, with bona-fide finance partners and evidence of firm marketplace commitment, and a strong likelihood of securing remaining finance
  • Be an Australian project or an official Australian co-production (where possible you must document this by providing provisional co-production approval or Producer Offset provisional documentation from Screen Australia)
  • A substantial amount of production and/or post-production must be undertaken within the state.
  • Screen Tasmania will consider post-production investment in Tasmanian projects that are at rough-cut stage, but only if:
  • firm market commitment is demonstrated
  • best endeavours to complete the majority of work within Tasmania is demonstrated.

Mandatory attachments must be engaged by the production company in accordance with the relevant industry award for a minimum of 20 days.

Alternatively, for projects that require two mandatory attachments, a single key creative attachment for 40 days is also acceptable. These costs can be included in eligible Tasmanian expenditure.

Funding for other (non-mandatory) attachment places or traineeships is available under Screen Tasmania’s Traineeships and Attachments program, except when a production uses attachments to make up a Tasmanian spend shortfall.

If additional Tasmanian attachments are at the applicant’s cost (i.e. not through Screen Tasmania’s Traineeships and Attachments program), they will count double towards Tasmanian spend.

Successful applicants will be required to conduct at least one casting session in Tasmania at their cost for Tasmanian actors to audition for a level of roles no less than that of minor speaking roles.