This initiative is designed to act as a stepping-stone for emerging and early career screen industry practitioners to help them achieve their career goals and obtain screen credits.

The Quicksilver Production Fund supports the professional development of creative talent by providing funded production opportunities of short form content that demonstrates an authentic, original, artistic vision.

Applications are now closed.

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Lucky Nine Fingers is a dark comedy about down-on-his-luck Marty, who attempts to settle old debts by overselling shares in a dud racehorse. Only to find this ‘sure bet’ scheme comes back to bite him!

Producer: Tim Hodgson
Writer/Director: Nicole Miller

Following a near drowning, Sadie awakens in a secluded seaside home and must rely on her partner Adrian to fill in the substantial holes in her memory, but when a strange mark appears on her skin, she questions if her relationship with Adrian was as perfect as he claims it was.

Producer: Sarah Wormald
Director: Tamara Hardman
Writer: Sophie Morgan & Tamara Hardman

After waking up in an unknown place with no memory of how she got there, Kelly is forced to reflect on her self-destructive behaviour as she tries to piece together the night before

Producer: Lilla Berry
Writer/Director: Pearl Berry

When a rising First Nations boxer is falsely accused of heinous crimes after his image is mistakenly used in a viral news report, he must confront the social, emotional, and physical consequences of a media-fuelled witch hunt while battling for his identity, accountability, and resilience.

Producer: Travis Akbar & Thibul Nettle
Writer/Director: Travis Akbar

A bittersweet short film about two children who meet across three consecutive Christmases while their families fall apart year by year.

Producer: Charlie Milne & Juniper Dew
Director: David Friswell
Writer: Charlie Milne

A bunny who experiences the world differently and a portal-hopping kangaroo show the forest community that true harmony emerges when everyone’s unique way of being is embraced.

Producer: Lysah Phoenix
Director: Cameron Edser
Writer: Lysah Phoenix

Three twenty-somethings struggling to run an amateur radio station find their work cut out for them when the station is cursed by a witch, and starts receiving calls from the literal depths of hell.

Producer: Emma Hough Hobbs & Leela Varghese
Writer/Director: Alice Lam

When an eleven year-old boy loses his mum’s attention to her new Pentecostal Christian faith, he fakes speaking in tongues to get it back.

Producer: Emma Beech
Writer/Director: Emily Steel

Producer: Adam Camporeale
Writer/Director: Stephen Packer

Producer: Lilla Berry
Director: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Writer: Piri Eddy, Lilla Berry & Johanis Lyons-Reid

Producer: Ben Galotta
Director/Writer: Scarlet Scherer

Producer: Wei Gao + Dante Niedzwiedz
Director/Writer: Shuying (Grace) Liu

Producer: Tom Schaefer + Cooper Rees-Jones
Director/Writer: Henry Reimer Meaney

Producer: Suriyna Sivashanker
Director/Writer: Leela Varghese

Producer: Bryce Kraehenbuehl
Director/Writer: Alex Salkicevic

Producer: Tim Harkness
Director/Writer: Thibul Nettle

Producer: Josh Trevorrow
Director/Writer: Travis Akbar

Producer: Craig Jackson
Director/Writer: Brendan Godfrey

Producer: Jasmine Leech
Director/Writer: David Daradan
Additional Creative: Joshua Campton

Producer: Jasmine Leech
Director/Writer: Guy Henderson