Screen Australia has unveiled the final two steps of the agency’s Gender Matters programme, Better Deals and Attachments for Women, at the MIFF 37°South Market in Melbourne. Gender Matters is the $5 million plan to ensure that production funding is targeted to creative teams that are at least 50% female by the end of 2018.

Better Deals is a $1 million pilot programme that will create a new incentive for distributors considering quality female-driven feature film projects. Screen Australia will match the distributor’s minimum guarantee of $100,000 or more (up to $300,000), which will be provided as a grant contribution towards the marketing of the film. Attachments for Women is a programme run in conjunction with the existing Production Investment Programmes. It requires that all scripted drama projects that receive more than $500,000 from Screen Australia to have a compulsory, paid female attachment position built into the budget.