Screen NSW gives a helping hand to comedy film-makers Gia Frino and Nisrine Amine

Producer Gia Frino and her creative partner Nisrine Amine were one of 10 teams awarded a Screen NSW grant to create their comedy Apricot, which will be screened on ABC platforms.

“The story is Nis’s story and inspired by her own grandmother,” Frino said.

“A lot of families do it, one of the parents are left alone when they’re a little bit older and the youngest child takes on their parent. So it’s those dynamics of having three generations in the house.

“As soon as she sent me the script I was just laughing because coming from a European background it’s like ‘oh my God that could have been my grandmother’.”

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The short film is currently in pre-production and will be shot around Wollongong in May.

It will then be seen on ABC iView and at various film festivals later in the year.

Frino said after she applied for the SEED: Regional Shorts at the eleventh hour after much deliberations and low expectations.

She finally got the good new on International Women’s Day and was “blown away”.

Eligible projects were required to have at least one woman in a key creative role. Successful projects also reflected diversity of backgrounds of the NSW community.