Pathways Development Program 2025/26

Applicants must meet the Screen NSW Terms of Trade. Writer applicants must be New South Wales residents and writers living with disability as defined under the NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014. Producer applicants must be responsible for producing the project and have the rights to carry out the project, including ownership or appropriate licences or copyright arrangements, and where based on third-party underlying work, at minimum an appropriate option agreement with suitable option periods. Eligible projects must have a New South Wales-based producer who is at least mid-career, defined as having at least one significant long-form credit or equivalent body of work, and a New South Wales-based creator who is the writer and identifies as having a disability. The writer must either have an eligible writing credit on a qualifying short film, web series or television program, but not a major credit as lead writer on a feature film or long-form drama series, or be a playwright, journalist, audio drama writer, podcast scriptwriter or author with at least one work professionally produced, published or distributed through publicly recognised media with demonstrated audience reach. Eligible screenwriting credits must relate to projects that were commercially distributed or exhibited theatrically, commissioned by a recognised commissioning platform and at least in production with a release plan, screened at a recognised marquee film festival, or online digital projects with significant demonstrable audience reach. For playwrights, journalists, audio drama writers, podcast scriptwriters and authors, works must be professionally produced or published by recognised organisations; community, amateur or self-published works without professional recognition or significant audience reach are excluded. Eligible projects must be narrative fiction, documentary or factual long-form projects, including children's feature films and series, for cinema, video on demand, broadcast television or online release platforms.