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Hi Luke, If you haven;t made a film before it may be worth considering starting with something smaller, the market for short films is sometimes larger than the options for low budget features. The golden rule of filmmaking is that youy make films with other people's money - not your own. You outline that you are considering a low budget film, in industry terms this would cover a film in the $5000 - $500,000 range. An alternative is the no-budget film where you just gewt everyone to pitch in for love. There are a few successful low budget, no budget feature film makers in Perth most noteably Zak Hilditch, who has made 2 films in recent years to some aclaim and Khrob and Miranda Edmonds. ScreenWest runs a funding program for low budget features called west Coast Visions, it allows for a budget of $750,000. The Film and Television Institute has funding schemes for short films ranging from $2000 - $70,000 range. Usually before a script is able to progress to a filming stage it will have been through several edits and rewrites and developed a marketing and business plan to progress. For further information get in touch with ScreenWest or FTI - they role is to help people develop thier films. Cheers Graeme Watson Professional Development and Training Manager Film and Television Institute gwatson@fti.asn.au