Posted Wednesday 16 Sep 2020
The December round is for production applications intended to appeal to general audiences. This is the third funding round of the financial year - there have already been two significant rounds for general and targeted audiences. NZOA says these first two rounds alone will likely see 72% of the Factual and around 77% of the Scripted budgets committed.
December funding round priorities:
Factual
The Factual applications prioritised in this round include Quality Journalism, Premier Stories and Many Perspectives. Click here to see Factual Roadmap for further detail on these funding streams.
Within these streams NZOA has notionally allocated the following funding against these genres:
Current Affairs - $3m
Events - $300,000
Documentary/Information - $2m
Scripted
The Scripted applications prioritised in this round include Premier content and Sustainable production. Click here to see Scripted Roadmap for further detail on these funding streams.
Within these streams NZOA has notionally allocated the following funding against:
Premier Drama - $2.5 - 3m
Children's Drama - $1 - 1.5m
Development
To this round NZOA is accepting applications to all three strands of the Industry Development Fund: Professional Development, National Conferences and National Awards. Click here to see the Development Roadmap for more information.
NZOA says it is also accepting content development applications. Applications with platform support are open. Diverse Development applications (projects without platform support) are not being considered in this round as the funding for these was fully allocated in the July round.
Important dates
15 October 2020, 4pm - Application deadline. Round closes.
2 December 2020 - Applicants notified. This date may be extended at NZOA's sole discretion.