The Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative is a joint venture between Screen Development Australia (SDA) and Screen Australia

Screen Australia

Screen Australia is the Federal Government’s key funding body for the Australian screen production industry. Its functions are to support and promote the development of a highly creative, innovative and commercially sustainable industry....

 (formerly the Australian Film Commission

Australian Film Commission

The Australian Film Commission was an Australian government agency with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a production arm responsible for production and commissioning of films for government...

 (AFC)) that awards Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n filmmakers

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 sponsorship to encourage film production.

The program funds the creation of short films

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 on a low budget

Film budgeting

Film budgeting refers to the process by which a line producer, unit production manager or filmmaker prepares a budget for a film production. This document, which could be over 150 pages long, is used to secure financing for the film and lead to pre-production and production of the film. Multiple...

 by emerging filmmakers and then tours the films throughout Australia at the end of a years work. It was created to address the sponsoring organisations' objective of showcasing new talent via organizations in each state.

The scheme is run in New South Wales through Metro Screen

Metro Screen

Metro Screen is a Paddington, Sydney based not-for-profit film and television training organisation. It is the NSW member of Screen Development Australia and is located in the Paddington Town Hall, Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd, Paddington....

, in Victoria through Open Channel, in Queensland through QPIX, in South Australia The Media Resource Centre, in Western Australia through WA Film Television Institute, in Tasmania through Wide Angle Tasmania

Wide Angle Tasmania

Wide Angle Tasmania is a not-for-profit screen resource organisation that supports emerging and mid-career screen practitioners with access to training, equipment hire, networking, screenings, forums and production support....

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During 2002 there were 29 short films produced using approximately seven-hundred cast and crew. The successful filmmakers in 2003 were given a small amount of money, two days equipment hire and two days post-production facilities. In 2003 $150,000 came from the AFC and $75,000 was contributed by SDA organizations.

List of selected filmmakers

2010

• Rebecca Thomson - Slashed (Tas)
• Sara Pensalfini Brown - Exit, Pursued By a Bear (Tas)
• Daniel Speed - Thicker Than Water (Tas)
• Alexandra Blue, Amber McBride, Nikki Wieland - "Daddy, Daddy" (SA)
• Chad Leader, Nima Nabili Rad - "Beta" (SA)
• Madeleine Parry & Daniel Joyce - "Murder Mouth" (SA)
• Christine Williams, Gareth Wilkes & Patrick Rees - "The Window" (SA)

2009

• Dominique Hurley & Justus Neumann - Water (Tas)
• Marisa Mastrocola - Daughter of San Dominico (Tas)
• Bernard Lloyd - Tin Man (Tas)
• Jasmine Cameron - The Gardener (Tas)
• Michael Clarkin & Sarah McLauchlan - "A World Away" (SA)
• Ben Crisp & Miles Rowland - "Don't Blame Me" (SA)
• Seth Williams & Luke Marsden - "Things Have Changed" (SA)
• Claire Harris & Sean Riley - "Lure" (SA)

2008

• Paul Searles - Butterfingers (NSW)
• Ngaire O'Leary - Homecoming (NSW)
• Daren Nair - Body Dysmorphic (NSW)
• Lisa Kowalski - The Last Cherry (NSW)
• Vivien Mason - Iron Will (Tas)
• Dan Weavell - Help Wanted (Tas)
• Shaun Wilson & Tim Logan - Henry Finn (Tas)
• Rose Schramm - Next of Kin (Tas)

2007/8

• Matt Hawkins & Bettina Hamilton - "Casual Living" (SA)
• Nick Bollard, Travis Kaledra, Felice Burns - "Family Buisness" (SA)
• Simone Mazengarb, Bowen Ellames, Sylvia Warmer - "Daniel" (SA)
• Michael Zeitz & Jane Baird - "Killjoy" (SA)

2006/7

• Luci Temple - Don't Panic! (NSW)
• Carol Williamson - What I'll Be When I Grow Up (NSW)
• Rozamund Waring - Clydesdale - The Horse That Built The Nation (NSW)
• Jacqueline Archer - Beneath The Tides (NSW)
• Sarah Crowest - "Caught In A Loop" (SA)
• Adam Lemmey - "Hard Rubbish" (SA)
• Dave Wade - "Dead End" (SA)
• Charlotte Hamlyn - "Mona" (SA)

2005/6

• Simon Blythe - Father's Day (NSW)
• Irena Dangov - "Aunt Joan's Friendly Grotto" (SA)
• Mark Fantasia - "Destinations" (SA)
• Jo Zealand & Michael Clarkin - "Like You Do..." (SA)
• Aaron Schuppan & Matt Salleh - "Shirt" (SA)
• Trevor Wright - "Train Runner" (SA)

2004

• Jason Chong - "Meteor Shower" (SA)
• Tim Rockk - "Disconnected" (SA)
• Albert Jamae - "Beat It" (SA)
• Lisa McDonald and Denise Wilson - "Hard Rubbish" (SA)
• Storm Ashwood - "Sleeping With The Light On" (SA)
• Arthur James Tsiakas - "Big Fat Greek Fag" (SA)

2003

• Jackie Loeb - Girls at Beach with Mum (NSW)
• Aaron Kajanto - "True Blue" (SA)
• Pelham Andrews & Jonathon Woolven - "The Kadina Policeman" (SA)
• Sheridan Stewart & Jeanette Wildwood - "Baubo" (SA)
• Ryan Walters - "Jasmine Jackson" (SA)
• Catherine Purling - "My Surfer Boy" (SA)
• Gretchen Mercedes - "Blue" (SA)

2002

• Christine Armstrong - In The Family (NSW)
• Bianca Barling - "I've Never Walked Out On A Movie Before" (SA)
• Chris Rieckmann - "8 Orient Road" (SA)
• Steve Lockley - "Trick or Treat" (SA)
• Greg Osbourne - "The Club" (SA)
• Brendan Richards - "Nastyboy" (SA)