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Australian Children’s Television Foundation

The Australian Children's Television Fund provides funding and support to independent producers

The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is a national non-profit organisation that funds and supports television media for Australian children. The Foundation’s goal is to assist in creating programs that children, parents and educators can rely on to be engaging, entertaining, accessible, creative and innovative.

ACTF develops policies regarding children’s television, distributes and invests in Australian children’s television series, supports new, innovative and entertaining children’s media and develops valuable screen resources for the education sector.

The Foundation has also created the educational multi-media construction tool-set Kahootz to be used in schools by primary and secondary students across a range of key learning areas.
The ACTF also acts as a funding body for other children’s television producers offering both script development funding and production investment to assist the development of quality children’s television. The Foundation also provides support through the Script Development Investment Program.

Before providing funding, the Foundation assesses the project with regards to the originality and quality of the story and its potential to engage with young audiences. When determining which television programs to support, the ACTF encourages diverse stories, voices and faces, an Australian voice and point of view and an innovative use of new and emerging media platforms.

The ACTF was established in 1982 and is funded by the Commonwealth Government and State and Territory Government programs.

Last updated by Ainsley Windress (2011-10-29)