Congratulations to the Flinders Screen graduates who have been awarded a share of $136,000 through the SA Film Corporation & Mercury Quicksilver Production initiative. Their short film projects will go into production this year.
$50,000 award winner
Producer Tim Hodgson (BCreatArts(Screen) ’13, BCreatArts(Hons) ’14) and writer/director Nicole Miller (BCreatArts(Screen Production) ’12, BCreatArts(Hons) ’13) have been awarded the major $50,000 grant to bring their dark comedy Lucky Nine Fingers to life. Down-on-his-luck Marty, who attempts to settle old debts by overselling shares in a dud racehorse. Only to find this ‘sure bet’ scheme comes back to bite him!
$20,000 award winner
Tamara Hardman (BCreatArts(Screen) ’17) will direct Forget Me, Not. Produced by Sarah Wormald, the film was awarded the $20,000 grant for their film about a woman with amnesia whose partner is helping to fill in the gaps in her memory, but was the relationship as perfect as he claims it was?
$10,000 award winners
Rising stars and producers Emma Hough Hobbs (BCreatArts(DigitalMedia) ’18) and Leela Varghese – the creative forces behind the Berlinale award-winning animated feature Lesbian Space Princess – are teaming up with writer/director Alice Lam for her film Strange Devil Signals. In this film three twenty-somethings struggling to run an amateur radio station find their work cut out for them when the station is cursed by a witch and starts receiving calls from the literal depths of hell.
Juniper Dew (BCreatArts(Screen)’ 24) is co-producing The Other House with writer/producer Charlie Milne, directed by David Friswell. This bittersweet short film follows two children who meet across three consecutive Christmases while their families fall apart year by year.
Award winning theatre-maker Emma Beech (BA ’01, BA(Hons) ’01) is teaming up with celebrated theatre creative Emily Steel, to make Ananab Ananab, where an eleven year-old boy loses his mum’s attention to her new Pentecostal Christian faith, he fakes speaking in tongues to get it back.
The Quicksilver Production Fund is made possible with ongoing annual funding provided by the South Australian Film Corporation. It aims to nurture creativity and innovation within South Australia’s vibrant screen industry, offering emerging talent the resources and guidance needed to bring their unique projects to life. The grants will enable each team to produce a short film and access mentoring, script consultation, production support, filmmaking equipment and post-production facilities.
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Quicksilver Production Funding Recipients
$50,000
Lucky Nine Fingers
Producer: Tim Hodgson (BCreatArts(Screen) ’13, BCreatArts(Hons) ’14)
Writer/Director: Nicole Miller (BCreatArts(Screen Production) ’12, BCreatArts(Hons) ’13)
Logline: Lucky Nine Fingers is a dark comedy about down-on-his-luck Marty, who
attempts to settle old debts by overselling shares in a dud racehorse. Only to find this
‘sure bet’ scheme comes back to bite him!
$20,000
Forget Me, Not
Producer: Sarah Wormald
Director: Tamara Hardman (BCreatArts(Screen) ’17)
Writers: Sophie Morgan, Tamara Hardman
Logline: Following a near drowning, Sadie awakens in a secluded seaside home and
must rely on her partner Adrian to fill in the substantial holes in her memory, but when a
strange mark appears on her skin, she questions if her relationship with Adrian was as
perfect as he claims it was.
$10,000
The Other House
Producers: Charlie Milne, Juniper Dew (BCreatArts(Screen)’ 24)
Director: David Friswell
Writer: Charlie Milne
Logline: A bittersweet short film about two children who meet across three consecutive
Christmases while their families fall apart year by year.
Strange Devil Signals
Producers: Emma Hough Hobbs (BCreatArts(DigitalMedia) ’18), Leela Varghese
Writer/Director: Alice Lam
Logline: Three twenty-somethings struggling to run an amateur radio station find their
work cut out for them when the station is cursed by a witch, and starts receiving calls
from the literal depths of hell.
$8,000
Ananab Ananab
Producer: Emma Beech (BA ’01, BA(Hons) ’01)
Writer/Director: Emily Steel
Logline: When an eleven year-old boy loses his mum’s attention to her new Pentecostal
Christian faith, he fakes speaking in tongues to get it back.