The New Deal
The New Deal
The traditional funding model is evolving, and smart filmmakers are adapting with innovative financing strategies. This forward-thinking session explores revenue stacking for sustainable business models, the rise of philanthropic investors and impact funding, and vertical content monetization strategies that create multiple income streams. Real APSA nominees share exactly how they funded their projects—the strategies that worked, the approaches that didn’t, and the creative solutions they discovered along the way. Leave with practical frameworks for diversifying your financing approach and building projects that can sustain themselves across multiple platforms and territories.
Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025
Time: 2.15pm – 3.30pm
The Langham, Gold Coast
Price: $35 per person including continuous tea and coffee
Day Pass: 5 panels and Gala Screening $110 per person.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.