With applications for the Quicksilver Production Fund now open, local filmmakers are looking to build teams to bring their project to life.

If you are a Producer looking to attach yourself to a project, email industry@themercury.org.au with a one-page CV and a short bio.

See below for specific project callouts.

Logline: Non-binary teenager ADDI befriends unlicensed lake monster BONNEY to stage a concert as a way to win over their tiny town and find acceptance.

Open roles: Looking for Producer to team up with queer regional Writer/Director to bring this project to life and assemble our dream team. An emerging or experienced Producer with Production Management and/or AD experience a bonus. Ideally looking for someone to work with over multiple projects and grow together.

Proposed production dates: Funding dependent but prefer to shoot in October school holidays 2025 or school holidays in first half of 2026.

Shoot Location: Riverland, South Australia

Contact: Alysha Herrmann 041 626 7391 or hello@partofthings.org

Logline: When a scientist’s experiment to create a nanobot replica, known as an “Echo,” surpasses all expectations, the Echo begins to evolve, replicate, and yearn for independence. Now, scientist faces a desperate race to shut down the machine before her creation gains full control over her mind and body. (Similar Movies: Ex Machina (2014), Annihilation (2018), Upgrade (2018), Moon (2009), The Invisible Man (2020).)

Open roles: Producer

Proposed production dates: Pre-Production Jan – Shooting April, Post Production May through to December. This is planned to be a VFX heavy short which will utilise Virtual Production.

Contact: Adam Maud, adammaud80@gmail.com

Logline: After a thirty year hiatus, well-to-do Hazel returns to her regional hometown with her husband and her teenage daughter. When they get there they discover Hazel’s estranged mother has developed a serious hoarding problem.

Open roles: Producer

Proposed production dates: May/June 2025

Contact:
Hannah Moase, Writer.
hannahmoase@gmail.com