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, a number of 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).

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.

GUIDELINES

Full Guidelines are available to download here: MIFF_Premiere_Fund_GuidelinesRound3.pdf (pdf file, 324kb)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ROUNDS) AND CLOSING DATES
Rounds One (1), Two (2) and Three (3) are now closed.

Round Four (4) will open its call for applications on 11 August 2008 and will accept applications until the Closing Date of 29 August 2008. Decisions from Round Four will be communicated by 31 October 2008.

Application forms will be available closer to the opening date for Round Four.

PRESS RELEASES

The MIFF Premiere Fund is run by the industry programs unit of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which also runs the film co-financing market 37South2008 See below for a full archive of press releases, from mid-2007 onwards, relating to the 37South and Premiere Fund activities including details of the films supported by the Premiere Fund.

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 Mark Woods and MIFF Premiere Fund Administrator Kate Kennedy are contracted on a part-time basis. For all enquiries, please contact the MIFF office on 03 8660 4888.