It’s about training, preparing yourself for making longer films, getting experience and getting known in the industry. Simon Blyth, 2005 Raw Nerve participant.
FIRST TIME FILMMAKERS NOW FORMS PART OF THE FIRST BREAK PROGRAM More Info Here
Do you want to make a high quality, low budget short films to showcase your storytelling and filmmaking talent? Want some tips on how to best realise your creative vision? No recourse to fund it yourself? Raw Nerve is for you. Open to emerging filmmakers who have not previously had a credit of writer or director broadcast.

In total twenty emerging filmmakers will be selected across Australia to participate in the fully subsidised Raw Nerve program, with five filmmakers selected from NSW.

Successful Raw Nerve applicants will work with Metro Screen staff and its industry associates on the development of their creative concept. The program spans the complete filmmaking process from initial concept through script editing, pre-production, production and post production. The program also incorporates mentoring and training by industry professionals with final works screened nationally.

Metro Screen is looking for filmmakers with drive, ambition and commitment to participate in this unique scheme.

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Metro Screen also provides a range of scholarships in various areas. Find out more

2009 WORKS
	Barton the Ghost Catcher Barton is a seven year old boy who has recently overcome his fear of ghosts. He now combines his intelligence and imagination in an effort to catch ghosts that pester humans, especially children. Filmmakers: Roy Weiland and Michelle Lia Mentor: AnnMaree Bell
	Francis and Annie New to the neighbourhood, Samantha soon hears of the tragic circumstances of the sisters at number 25. Curious, she decides to investigate. Filmmakers: Genevieve Clay and Eleanor Winkler Mentor: AnnMaree Bell
	Hinterland When his wife is gone he is asked ‘How does it feel?’ Filmmakers: Sam McKeith and Karen Tse Mentor: AnnMaree Bell
	Rebel Wessex Do we become who we become because of the way the past affects how we imagine and construct our identities? Is there an ‘other’ world, another place, another country that we can’t see? Filmmakers: Sarah-Mac Dennis and Dejay Vi Nguyen Mentor: AnnMaree Bell
2008 WORKS
	Butterfingers From a quiet hospital room where time has stopped, we travel to the Jungles of South America in search of the Ramphastos Toco - the Toucan. This journey of bears, ice-cream, lumberjacks, and the Lost City of Atlantis will end in a strange dark hall, where we must face our own lost dreams. Filmmaker: Paul Searles Mentor: Sam Jennings
	Homecoming With his father deployed overseas, 14 year old Josh creates a DVD documenting the regular pulses of their domestic life. But behind it all, there is a growing sense of dread, that all is not well. Filmmaker: Ngaire O'Leary Mentor: Sam Jennings
	Body Dysmorphic James is utterly exhausted with having to deal with his physical self perception. He knows he doesn’t look the way he thinks he does. He feels he’s been deprived of a normal life. Filmmaker: Daren Nair Mentor: Sam Jennings
	The Last Cherry Being the last one is never easy, especially when it comes to sex. Meet Katie, who's just found out that she's the sole remaining virgin in her class. Now she's on a mission. To discover what it really means to become a woman, dispelling the myths and hype behind the S word along the way. Filmmaker: Lisa Kowalski Mentor: Sam Jennings
2006/7 WORKS
	Don’t Panic A light, tight thriller about a woman who wakes in a stranger’s house to an SMS warning Don’t Panic. She realises her new lover might be a terrorist. Filmmakers: Luci Temple, Vilash Patel Mentor: Sam Jennings
	What I’ll Be When I Grow Up With failing career prospects, no romantic attachments and needing ‘five minutes peace’ from her kids, the dog and the shopping, Kate turns to a psychic for answers. Filmmakes: Carol Williamson, Hanna Tow Mentor: Sam Jennings
	Clydesdale – The Horse That Built The Nation For the first time the history of how the Clydesdale horse built the nation and became a national icon is told. Australia owes its early wealth to this remarkable breed. Filmmakers: Rozamund Waring, Robert Alcock Mentor: Sam Jennings
	Glory Haunted by the memory of her child, Glory is drawn to a broken toy doll in a children’s playground. Imagining the doll to be a real child, and conjuring up the memory of a past lover, Glory builds the family that she has always dreamed about. Filmmakers: Donna Chang, Evangeline Aguas Mentor: Sam Jennings
	High Tide A woman on the brink of giving up – burdened with depression and haunted by memories, she must decide the conclusion to her own fate-ridden tale. A beautiful and uplifting story about grief. Healing and survival. Filmmakers: Jacqueline Archer, Jo Rose Mentor: Sam Jennings
SELECTED 2005 WORKS
	Brown Trash On the most important night of her life Asha is suddenly left with no dress, no make-up and no ride to her Formal. Reluctantly, Asha accepts the help of her eccentric father, who with the assistance of the local neighbourhood, prepares her for her Formal. View Video Filmmaker: Tresa Ponnor Mentor: Samantha Jennings
	Composure Composure is a dark comedic story of the unlikely coincidence of two introverts. On a gloomy winter’s day Saphire finds a card with a phone number inside. After much deliberation she calls the number and Fabrice answers. What follows becomes an absurd roller coaster of uncharted sexual awakening. View Video Filmmakers: Luc Anthony, Tristan Waley Mentor: Samantha Jennings
SELECTED 2004 WORKS
	Father's Day Ten year old Michael has never met his Dad. When his Dad promises to visit him for the first time, the day he has waited so long for doesn't quite go as planned. View Video Filmmaker: Simon Blythe Mentor: Sam Jennings
	After becoming a father for the first time last year, filmmaker Simon Blythe was inspired to write and direct the short film Father's Day – a story that explores the important role a father plays in his son's life. Simon has worked as a field producer for the ABC's Fly TV and has had fiction and non fiction articles published.
SELECTED 2003 WORKS
	Girls at Beach with Mum Girls at Beach with Mum is the story of two girls who accompany their mother to the beach only to discover they have run out of sunscreen. The film may be devoid of the once imperative story line, however it has plenty of product placement and flesh to compensate. Filmmaker: Jackie Loeb Mentor: Barry Gamba
	Congratulations to Jackie and the cast/crew of Girls at Beach with Mum for being selected for The Best of The Rest Sony Tropfest screenings in Sydney and Melbourne in 2002. Tropfest also selected Girls at Beach with Mum as one of 24 [out of 48] to feature as part of the Tropfest 2004 library of shortlisted films.
SELECTED 2002 WORKS
	In The Family In The Family follows a mother's dilemma as to whether to protect her abusive son or hand over evidence that implicates him in the brutal attack of a girl. Filmmaker: Christine Armstrong Mentor: Sam Jennings
	"For such a character-driven piece it was vital to have actors who could convey the range of emotions that a mother and son experience in such a situation," said Christine. "Even while they seem to be repulsed by the other's actions there needs to be an element of defiant love there." Acclaimed actor Denise Roberts plays the mother, while young up-and-coming actor Owen Elliott plays her son. "Denise was just so giving with her experience and skills," said Christine. "Myself, the cast and crew all benefited from working with her."

Raw Nerve is a joint initiative between Screen Australia [SA] and Screen Development Australia [SDA] aimed at assisting emerging filmmakers to get their short films out there.