December round is for production applications intended to appeal to general audiences. This is the third funding round of the financial year, which means we have already had two significant rounds for general and targeted audiences.
These first two rounds alone will likely see 72% of the Factual and around 77% of the Scripted budgets committed.
Please read the full December 2020 Information for Scripted, Factual and IDF funding applicants here.
December funding round priorities:
Factual
- The Factual applications prioritised in this round include Quality Journalism, Premier Stories and Many Perspectives – see our Factual Roadmap for further detail on these funding streams.
- Within these streams we have 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 – see our Scripted Roadmap for further detail on these funding streams.
- Within these streams we have notionally allocated the following funding against: Premier Drama - $2.5 - 3m, Children’s Drama - $1 - 1.5m
Development
- To this round we are accepting applications to all three strands of our Industry Development Fund: Professional Development, National Conferences and National Awards. Please see our Development Roadmap for more information.
- We are 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
11 September 2020, 4pm - Funding round opens.
15 October 2020, 4pm - Application deadline. Round closes.
2 December 2020 - Applicants notified. This date may be extended at NZ On Air's sole discretion.
