The Made in NSW - TV Drama Fund will support high-end feature film and television drama productions, produced by Australian production companies, which are genuinely footloose and can shoot in NSW.

Screen NSW will conduct 5 competitive rounds per financial year and round opening and closing dates will be published annually. If the applicant is intending to apply for this fund along with the Regional Filming Fund or NSW PDV Rebate, applications must be made concurrently and declared in the application.

The total budget of a project must be between $5 million (AUD) and $18 million (AUD). Applicants can apply for up to 10% of their Qualifying NSW Spend, capped at $1 million.

Funding from $0 to 1,000,000 per production is available through the program. Individual funding is determined on a case-by-case basis based on the Qualifying NSW Production Expenditure (QNSWPE) but will not exceed 10% of the QNSWPE or $1,000,000 - whichever is the lesser.

Eligible projects are those between $5-18M production budgets in the following formats:

• Feature films, excluding documentaries
• Television drama and narrative comedy, including miniseries.

The applicant must:

• Fulfil one of the following:
  • Be an Australian company based in NSW and actively operating in NSW for at least six months prior to the funding application, or 
  • Be an Australian company not based in NSW in a genuine co-production arrangement with a NSW production company and/or the project is created by a NSW creative or is substantially driven by NSW key creatives, or
  • Be a non-NSW based Australian Company, meeting at least a minimum level of NSW spend of 80% of total production costs. 
• Have at least one NSW based Key Creative; and
• Be compliant with our Terms of Trade, and 
• Maintain ownership or control of the rights necessary (or have shared ownership and/or joint control of copyright under a co-production arrangement) to carry out the project that is the subject of the application (including having ownership or control of any relevant copyright and appropriate clearances from all significant participants).

The project must:

• Have Significant Australian Content (SAC). SAC is evidenced by a Provisional Producer Offset Certificate or official co-production certification. For more details on the SAC test see here.
• Be fully financed at the time of application (other than the contribution from Screen NSW, or contributions that are being considered concurrently by other similar State or Federal agencies).,
• Have not commenced pre-production prior to the closing date of the round
• Be genuinely footloose.

• Email: investment@screen.nsw.gov.au