Calling all screen creatives, cast and crew: Are you the Sunshine Coast’s next film or TV star?
The Sunny Coast Showdown will return with a mission to turn the Sunshine Coast into Sunnywood and to launch the next stars of the big and small screens. The screen incubator and festival is the brainchild of Powderfinger’s Jon Coghill and former USA Survivor producer Dan Munday who, together with the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective, are looking to boost the local film and TV industry. The 2023 event may be bigger and better but the idea is still the same – to give local screenwriters, filmmakers, cast and crew an opportunity to produce and deliver great projects and showcase them at a community festival event. Submissions for 2023 open 23 January 2023 and will feature six categories. Mr Coghill hopes the event attracts anyone with a desire to make great films and TV. The Showdown is offering tens of thousands of dollars in production funding, across multiple categories, with the aim of inspiring and mentoring the next generation of talented locals to make that happen.
The Sunny Coast Showdown 2023 will feature two new categories – a local Indigenous project and a Powderfinger music video.
The final projects will be showcased at Sunny Coast Showdown festival event, scheduled for late June 2023.
