Pitch, Plot and Produce winners

The Hodgman Liberal Government is a strong supporter of Tasmania’s creative industries and it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the Pitch, Plot and Produce cultural initiative.
Congratulations to the following teams:

• Writer/director Briony Kidd and writer/producer Ella Kennedy for Motel.

• Director Bec Thompson, producer Elise Taylor and writer Carrie McLean for Once Upon a Porno.

• Director/producer Clayton Jacobson and writers/producers Franz Docherty and Belinda Bradly for The Vanity Unit.

They were selected after pitching their ideas for a low budget feature film during a three-day development workshop in early November.

They will now be paired with a mentor to take their project through to completion which includes script development, rehearsals with actors, production of dramatic scene and film trailers and financing and budgeting master classes.

At the end of the program the teams are expected to have a low budget feature film script, production budget and finance plan ready to take to the market and attract finance.

The three key mentors, Sophie Hyde, Zak Hilditch, and Jonathan auf der Heide, are award-winning filmmakers who have all produced internationally acclaimed low budget feature films.

Other guest mentors include Rolf de Heer, Matthew Bate, Nick Batzias and Sean Byrne.

The Pitch, Plot and Produce initiative is a Screen Tasmania and Screen Australia co-funded low budget feature film development initiative for filmmaking teams.

It is unique among Australian screen agency programs because it supports strong emerging filmmaking teams from the earliest conceptual stage of their projects’ development.

The intention is to have Tasmanians involved in the writing, directing and producing of feature films distributed to national and international audiences.
Vanessa Goodwin, Minister for the Arts