In a bid to spawn production fund, the ABC TV Arts and Entertainment and the Adelaide Film Festival (AFFP) have announced their newly established partnership at the opening night of the world premiere of the AFF.

According to the statement from the ABC TV News, the collaboration hopes to create Hive Fund Production, a group that will support arts based films and documentaries.

ABC TV and the AFF as cited in the announcement will both contribute at $200,000 to the Fund. The funding initiative according to the statement is ‘designed to assist one-off, ambitious and audacious arts films for screening at the AFF and on ABC TV.

This is not the first projected collaborated by ABC TV and the AFF as they have been working for many projects for years said AFF in the joint statement.

“This fund builds on the partnership that our Festival has been developing with ABC Arts over the past nine years. We greatly look forward to jointly supporting some truly visionary works for the screen,” the Artistic Director of the AFF, Katrina Sedgwick said, according to the statement.

For its part, the ABC will be expecting concepts and ideas that could be used and adapted for television.

“We will be calling for ideas that demonstrate a strong vision that can successfully translate arts ideas and stories to cinema and television screens,” Amanda Duthie, the Head of ABC TV Arts and Entertainment said.

The inauguration of the Hive Development Lab has brought together known Australian artists, musicians, filmmakers, theatre performers, dancers, choreographers and writers who are all participants in the five-day residential workshop.

The lab noted in the statement aims at encouraging art form cross-pollination – between practitioners. It also hopes to provide an avenue to create a combined processes and creative approaches.