Screen Australia has chosen 11 documentaries through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program to share in A$3 million ($2.03 million) of production funding.<\/p>\n
We Are Jeni<\/em>, a selection from the Producer Program, is a feature-length documentary for SBS that tracks the journey of Jeni Haynes, the host of a vast network of alternate personalities. The doc is from directors Mariel Thomas (Better Date Than Never<\/em>) and Akhim Dev (The Children in the Pictures<\/em>), producer Simon Nasht (The Children in the Pictures<\/em>) and Sara Kozac.<\/p>\n Also from the Producer Program are Edge of Life<\/em>, following two Melbourne doctors who use a synthetic version of a naturally occurring psychedelic in palliative care; the observational feature-length documentary Hard as Puck<\/em>; Make it Look Real<\/em>, which gives access into how intimate scenes in film and TV are created; Mockbuster<\/em>, following writer and director Anthony Frith; and Phenomena<\/em>, in which art and science collide.<\/p>\n More projects from the Producer Program include Queens of Concrete<\/em>, shot over the course of seven years; Sentient<\/em>, which takes audiences behind locked doors of high-security laboratories that experiment on animals; Spreadsheet<\/em> Champions<\/em>, delving into the Spreadsheet World Championships; Untitled Mental as Anything Documentary<\/em>, about the rise of Australian band Mental as Anything; and Yurlu | Country<\/em>, taking viewers into the remote red gorges of the Pilbara in Western Australia.<\/p>\n Projects funded through the Commissioned Program are Headliners<\/em>, in which Elly-May Barnes leads a quest to create two bands of musicians living with a disability, and The Secret DNA of Us<\/em>, exploring Australia through mass DNA testing.<\/p>\n Richard Huddleston, head of documentary at Screen Australia, said, \u201cI am thrilled that this funding will support a rich array of documentary producers, from emerging and established filmmakers to internationally award-winning artists and our leading investigative journalists. The mix of genres, the subjects they explore as well as the creative approaches are equally rich and will appeal to a diverse range of Australian and international audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Screen Australia has chosen 11 documentaries through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program to share in A$3 million ($2.03 million) of production funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3087,"featured_media":21886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9906,9907,6215,9908],"class_list":["post-21885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-commissioned-program","tag-producer-program","tag-screen-australia","tag-we-are-jeni","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n