All production investment applications for the National Documentary Program must be made online.

Before filling in this online application form, applicants must read Screen Australia’s Program Guidelines – Production Financing January 2009 and Terms of Trade.

The National Documentary Program
(incorporating the National Interest Program and the Making History Initiative)

The National Documentary Program (NDP) aims to provide a comprehensive and strategic slate of projects across a period of time, involving a diversity of practitioners, styles, formats and budgets. Documentaries will encompass a broad range of themes of national significance. Projects will be documentaries of record, and form part of the heritage collection.

Screen Australia does not require exclusive rights to projects produced under the NDP, but will retain appropriate rights of approval, including approval of contractual arrangements, licence fees, distributors arrangements as well as non-exclusive rights for NDP product to be retained in a living collection and used for online learning as appropriate.

Eligible projects: The NDP will be broadly framed around four content areas, which may vary from time to time:
• art and culture
• contemporary and social issues, including social history
• science and the environment
• national history and identity (including the Making History initiative with the ABC)

Screen Australia management, consulting experts as necessary, will ensure the continuing relevance of areas of core content and will ensure that the NDP delivers against the broad framework.

To apply for production funding under the NDP, applicants are required to have a broadcast presale. Standalone interactive projects such as websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Application timing: Applications can be submitted anytime and must be made online with the form below.