Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) has partnered with Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) once again to offer a new short film initiative.
Adelaide Film Festival and Pride Foundation Australia are committed to increasing equity for LGBTQIA+ Australians to tell their stories. The initiative will give one Australian creative team a $60,000 grant to produce a short film (up to 10 minutes), which will then have its World Premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival 2027.
“We are so excited to continue our partnership with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund to support under-represented filmmakers and less amplified voices. This investment will not only benefit individual career development but will also benefit LGBTQIA+ people and allied communities in Australia through seeing themselves represented on screen. This is part of our greater mission to advocate for systemic change for the most marginalised LGBTQIA+ communities.” said Ruth McNair, Chair of Pride Foundation Australia.
“Making a short film is such a critical stepping stone for emerging writers, directors and producers and, with this new initiative, we want to support the career development of LGBTQIA+ writers and directors and encourage them to form a creative team with an experienced producer, preferably South Australian,” said Mat Kesting, AFF CEO and Creative Director. “The World Premiere of the selected short film at the Adelaide Film Festival will lead, we hope, to the creative team going on to make many more screen projects – which one day may also be Adelaide Film Festival World Premieres.”
Priority will be given to applicants who are LGBTQIA+ and in at least one of the following groups – First Nations, newly arrived migrants, forcibly displaced people including refugees, and people from CALD backgrounds and/or regional and rural communities to develop their screen storytelling craft and build their professional careers.
The initiative is now open for applications, and will close on Wednesday 7th October 2026.
Prospective applicants are invited to join an information webinar via Zoom about application process on Friday September 11th, 12- 12.45pm ACST.
For more information and to apply, please visit the official AFF x PFA Short Film Initiative page.
