The Australian Kids’s Tv Basis has launched its annual report, investing or committing practically $9.5 million in manufacturing funding through the 2023-24 monetary yr, in addition to investing greater than $380,000 within the improvement of 14 new initiatives.

$5,411,198 was spent on manufacturing funding, with an extra $4,035,467 dedicated to initiatives at financing stage.

Two ACTF supported applications premiered through the yr – the preschool animation Eddie’s Lil’ Homies on NITV / Netflix and the household characteristic movie Windcatcher on Stan.

There have been 5 kids’s manufacturing in manufacturing over this era: Tales From Outer Suburbia, Kangaroo Seaside Sequence 3,  House Nova Sequence 2, Little J & Massive Cuz Sequence 4 and the characteristic movie Runt.

An extra three ACTF supported applications have been financed, with manufacturing to begin within the 2024-25 monetary yr: Knee Excessive Spies, Turquoise Bay and an unannounced characteristic movie.

The ACTF invested within the improvement of 14 initiatives, with a complete spend of $381,985. Initiatives to obtain funding have been a mixture of live-action and animation and embody a musical, a hybrid preschool collection combining live-action and puppetry, and several other movies.

ACTF Board Chair Helen Silver, AO stated: “Domestically produced kids’s content material is important to shaping kids’s id, contributes to their psychological well being and to social cohesion in our neighborhood. Placing our kids and their tales on display screen demonstrates the worth that we place on the youngest members of our neighborhood.

Packages supported by the ACTF have been extraordinarily fashionable abroad, with our worldwide distribution staff promoting content material to over 35 broadcasters throughout greater than 60 particular person territories.

5 ACTF supported applications received main awards. Loopy Enjoyable Park received a number of accolades, together with the 2024 First Prize by the Worldwide Youth Jury for 11-15 years fiction class on the 2024 Prix Jeunesse in Germany. Pure historical past collection Constructed to Survive received the Worldwide Youngsters Emmy for Factual and Leisure, changing into the primary Australian program to win within the class. Barrumbi Youngsters was chosen for the 2023 Chicago Worldwide Kids’s Movie Pageant and received the first prize by Kids’s Jury within the live-action TV class. Kangaroo Seaside Sequence 2 was the Nationwide Winner for Greatest Animated Sequence (2D or 3D) on the Asian Academy Artistic Awards 2023. 100% Wolf: The Ebook of Hath received Animated Manufacturing of the Yr on the Display Producer Australia Awards 2024, in addition to the Gold Award for Greatest TV Sequence – Kids on the 2023 Australian Results and Animation Pageant.

The ACTF Studying staff launched seven new schooling assets, supporting lecturers to make use of just lately launched reveals similar to Eddie’s Lil’ Homies, The PM’s Daughter Sequence 2 and Constructed to Survive within the classroom, and two NAIDOC themed digital assets supported lecturers to discover First Nations content material with their college students.

Webinars for college students and lecturers held by the yr lifted the bonnet on the manufacturing course of, exploring particular visible results, storyboards, storytelling strategies, and the ethics of synthetic intelligence use. Delivered in partnership with ACMI, these scholar occasions have been a continuation of the ACTF’s collaboration with the Melbourne-based display screen museum.