X|Media|Lab Perth grants its first ever development award
Three projects have won the development awards at the inaugural X|Media|Lab Perth, receiving up to $20,000 each.
The projects include a palaeo-detective game exploring the last moments of the Australian megafauna, an online documentary set in an inner-Perth community garden, and a graphic novel starring a street-wise Aboriginal girl.
Sixteen selected project teams had the opportunity to workshop their ideas with the BBC’s digital media expert Rosie Allimonos, mobile media guru Emma Kaye and global entertainment specialist Peter Shiao. Project teams needed to include at least one Western Australian media practitioner and a Western Australian artists/arts organisation to be eligible for the development awards – funded by ScreenWest and the Department of Culture and the Arts.
The winners are: