MIFF Premiere Fund
BACKGROUND
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), through the Government of Victoria, has established an ongoing fund for supporting new Australian theatrical films and feature-length documentaries. The MIFF Premiere Fund aims to support quality feature-length projects that will have their International premiere at MIFF. The Fund is a strategic minority co-financier of a range of films and is be keen to see diversity on its slate in terms of filmmaking teams and genres of films. Projects will be assessed on a range of factors as per the Assessment Criteria in the Guidelines (see below).
MIFF PREMIERE FUND SLATE & TRAILERS
The Fund’s slate since 2008 has included the following films (trailers in brackets). For a one page overview of the Fund's slate, download this attachment: PremFund2012DpublicSLATEbackgR16.doc or PremFund2012DpublicSLATEbackgR16.pdf
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (http://youtu.be/uXKE4bcs0OM) Balibo (www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApB2ndekZg)
Bastardy (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpVta4CrRzY)
Blame: (http://www.blamefilm.com/#video_view)
Blessed (www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDR805nqld4)
Bran Nue Dae (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUm5qPIofIg) & (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbp8GsrPejc)
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyD9RRCTEKY)
Curse of the Gothic Symphony (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVg9vn4jCc)
Indonesia Calling (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW307PPMqd0) Falling For Sahara ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJcnaWQ5Y0)
The Loved Ones: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb5BFm4qIow)
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1404322793324&ref=mf)
Matching Jack: (http://www.matchingjack.com/trailer/)
Mother of Rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMxnV7ThZI)
Not Quite Hollywood (www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT--9iFiDko)
Rock n Roll Nerd (www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMIysJtyYk)
Swerve (http://www.swervefeaturefilm.com/index.html) The Triangle Wars ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZRZE-5kAM)
The Wedding Party: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPjFHXHV140)
Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? (www.youtube.com/watch?v=R10s58TexGA)
GUIDELINES
Projects may seek a range of supports from the MIFF Premiere Fund, such as:
- completed projects seeking distribution/marketing support, via advances;
- fully shot or mostly shot projects se eking completion/enhancement support via loans;
- scripts (or fully developed proposals/outlines in the case of documentaries) in an advanced state of financing seeking mini-gap or equity investment.
Full Guidelines are available to download here:
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ROUNDS) AND CLOSING DATES
Tentative dates for Round 17 are as follows: opening in early August, closing late August; decisions on/by late September.
Application form for Round 16 can be downloaded here:
PRESS RELEASES
The MIFF Premiere Fund is run by the industry programs unit of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which also runs the MIFF 37ºSouth Market See below for a full archive of press releases, from mid-2007 onwards, relating to the MIFF Premiere Fund activities, including details of the films supported by the Premiere Fund.
MIFFpremiereR10and11.pdf
MR_PREMIERE_FUND_round_10.pdf
MIFFpremiereR9.doc
MIFFpremiereR7and8.pdf
>MIFFpremiereR6and7.doc
MIFFpremiereR6opens.pdf
Opening_and_Closing_Night_Films.pdf
First__MIFF_Premiere_Fund_wrap.pdf
MIFFpremiereRound5opensPR.doc
MIFFpremiereR4PR.doc
MIFF_PFRound4opensPR.doc
JENNINGScelebrityNerdPR.doc
FUND_MARKETrenewedPR.doc
MIFFpremiereSlatePR.doc
MIFF37south2008FirstAppCallPRWeb.doc
MIFFPremiereFundRd2.pdf
Filmfund_37SouthJennings.pdf
MIFFpremiereRoundOnerelease.pdf
MIFFfundsRelease03Sept2007.pdf
MIFFWoodsRelease26July07.pdf
FilmFund_37SouthBrumby.pdf
PHOTOS
Photos from the premières of:
Autoluminescent (including the after party): https://picasaweb.google.com/dean.walliss/Autoluminescent?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCN6El8ayqbzLhAE&feat=directlink
Falling For Sahara: https://picasaweb.google.com/dean.walliss/Falling_For_Sahara?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJCYjIf-9bi22AE&feat=directlink
FURTHER INFORMATION
To keep costs down, the MIFF Premiere Fund is administered on a part-time basis. For all enquiries, please email woods(at)miff.com.au and sakic(at)miff.com.au