Round 12 submissions are Open!
Round 12 will award up to $10,000 and is accepting applications until Sunday 4 January 2026 for non-members and Sunday 11 January 2026 for Queer Screen Members.
Since 1993 Queer Screen has worked closely with the filmmaking community to showcase quality LGBTIQ+ cinema and to provide opportunities for local filmmakers to create content.
The Queer Screen Completion Fund was established in 2015 and has awarded $172,000 in funding since. The fund offers Australian LGBTIQ+ filmmakers much needed financial support to assist with final production expenses on feature films and documentaries that address the lives and stories of people of diverse gender and sexualities.
Application and Eligibility
We will consider applications for finishing, marketing and/or accessibility inclusion (e.g. closed/open captions, audio description) funds for:
• Narrative feature films (70 minutes or longer)
• Documentary films (60 minutes or longer)
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Alternate-length versions for TV, education, or other platforms are permitted.
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Eligible projects must:
• Require finishing, marketing, or accessibility inclusion funding
• Have completed development and at least 80% of production, and be in post-production
• Be finished or have a viewable offline edit
• Not have had an Australian or World Premiere (in-person, broadcast, or online) before 28 February 2026
• Have commenced principal photography after January 2024
Submission must include:
- Completed application form
- Full synopsis
- Summary of the finance plan, including confirmed funding sources (income) and expenditure
- Summary production schedule (1 page), clearly stating the project’s current stage
- Bios of main cast and key creative team
- Chain of title summary (who owns the rights to the material)
- Copies of broadcaster licence/distribution agreements/sales deal memos (if available)
Applicants will be notified by email of the funding decision within 60 days of the final submission deadline date. Winners will be announced at the closing night of the 33rd Mardi Gras Film Festival (12-26 February, 2026)
Completion Fund Recipients
The Queer Screen Completion Fund was established to provide support to Australian LGBTIQ+ filmmakers and storytellers.
Each year a new round provides up to $20,000 in Completion funding for screen projects, including feature films (Narrative and Documentary) and web series. Since 2016 Queer Screen has awarded $162,000 in filmmaker completion grants to 27 projects.
2016
- Birds of the Borderlands, Director: Jordan Bryon, $7,500
- Teenage Kicks, Director: Craig Boreham, $2,500
- Nothing To Lose, Director: Kelli Jean Drinkwater, $8,000
- Jade of Death, Director: Erin Good, $4,000
- The Greenhouse, Director: Thomas Wilson-White, $10,000
- Becoming Colleen, Director: Ian Thomson, $5,000
- Little Sista, Directors: Charmaine Bingwa & Reece Jones, $3,000
- Black Divaz, Director: Adrian Russell Wills, $2,000
- Sequin in a Blue Room, Director: Samuel van Grinsven, $10,000
- Cloudy River, Directors: Sophie Hardcastle & Charlie Ford, $6,000
- Morgana, Director: Isabel Peppard, $4,000
- More Beautiful …for having been broken, Director: Nicole Conn, $3,000
- Romp, Director: Tonnette Stanford, $2,000
- Under My Skin, Director: David O’Donnell, $10,000
- Tales of an Upstart, Directors: Craig Boreham & Meredith Williams, $2,500
- Unsound, Director: Ian Watson, $2,500
- Thirty (2nd season), Director: Leah Pellinkhof, $5,000
- In The Room Where He Waits, Director: Tim Marshall, $8,000
- Lonesome, Director: Craig Boreham, $5,000
- Scattered, Director: Logan Mucha, $2,000
- Slant, Director: James Vinson, $10,000
- The Longest Weekend, Director: Molly Haddon, $8,000
- The Story of Trans Glamoré, Director: Lachlan Bradbury, $2,000
- Sunflower, Director: Gabriel Carrubba, $15,000
- Fanny Scat Investigates, Director: Tony Radevski, $5,000
- One Person Protest, Director: Christopher Amos, $10,000
- Videoland, Director: Jessica Smith, $10,000
- Lesbian Space Princess, Directors: Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs, $10,000