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, through various mechanisms, 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 General 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: PremFund2010publicSLATEbackg.pdf (pdf file, 229kb).

Bran Nue Dae (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUm5qPIofIg) & (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbp8GsrPejc)
Blessed (www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDR805nqld4)
Balibo (www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApB2ndekZg)
The Loved Ones: (COMING SOON)
Indonesia Calling (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW307PPMqd0)
Not Quite Hollywood (www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT--9iFiDko)
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyD9RRCTEKY)
Rock n Roll Nerd (www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMIysJtyYk)
Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? (www.youtube.com/watch?v=R10s58TexGA)
Bastardy (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpVta4CrRzY)

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 seeking 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:
DOC (doc file, 502kb)
PDF (pdf file, 553kb )

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ROUNDS) AND CLOSING DATES

Rounds One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7)  and Eight (8) are now closed.
Round Nine (9) opens on 16 February 2010 and will accept applications until the Closing Date of 16 March 2010. Decisions from Round Nine (9) will be communicated by or around 23 April 2010.

Application form for Round 9 can be downloaded here:
DOC (doc file, 427kb)
PDF (pdf file, 309kb)

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.

MIFFpremiereR9.doc (doc file, 259kb)
MIFFpremiereR7and8.pdf (pdf file, 244kb)
MIFFpremiereR6and7.doc (doc file, 255kb)
MIFFpremiereR6opens.pdf (pdf file, 235kb)
Opening_and_Closing_Night_Films.pdf (pdf file, 99kb)
First__MIFF_Premiere_Fund_wrap.pdf (pdf file, 278kb)
MIFFpremiereRound5opensPR.doc (doc file, 305kb)
MIFFpremiereR4PR.doc (doc file, 315kb)
MIFF_PFRound4opensPR.doc (doc file, 303kb)
JENNINGScelebrityNerdPR.doc (doc file, 42kb)
FUND_MARKETrenewedPR.doc (doc file, 47kb)
MIFFpremiereSlatePR.doc (doc file, 313kb)
MIFF37south2008FirstAppCallPRWeb.doc (doc file, 413kb)
MIFFPremiereFundRd2.pdf (pdf file, 102kb)
Filmfund_37SouthJennings.pdf (pdf file, 82kb)
MIFFpremiereRoundOnerelease.pdf (pdf file, 100kb)
MIFFfundsRelease03Sept2007.pdf (pdf file, 57kb)
MIFFWoodsRelease26July07.pdf (pdf file, 723kb)
FilmFund_37SouthBrumbyJuly07.pdf (pdf file, 84kb)

FURTHER INFORMATION

MIFF Premiere Fund Manager/Executive Producer Mark Woods and MIFF Premiere Fund Administrator Yvette Zhuang are contracted on a part-time basis. For all enquiries, please contact the MIFF office on 03 8660 4888.