Penguin-based drift racer Taylor Forward will be the host of an entertainment series about motorsport around the world, if development funding from Screen Tasmania leads to a home for the show.
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Destination Drift was one of 13 projects to score funding worth a total of $250,000, as part of the state government's Cultural and Creative Industries Stimulus Package.
Launceston-based filmmaker Dylan Hesp said the funding would be used in the development stage of Destination Drift, and that himself, Forward, and co-producer Michael O'Neill were already talking to interested parties.
"Also, with coronavirus, we obviously won't be going to Japan this week," he said.
"But the goal is to pursue the show further and hopefully find a great place for it to fit.
"It's great that our government and Screen Tasmania have presented this opportunity, and they're giving us some support. to pursue and make this a viable television program. Hopefully, in the coming years, it will be on people's screens."
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Drifting is a motorsport technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving the car through the entirety of a corner.
It was popularised by film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
"Drifting is really the highlight reel of motorsport, and we thought it would be a great opportunity to take [Taylor Forward] around the world and show what the sport of drift looks like in different countries," Hesp said.
"Taylor is a classic larrikin guy, he's a great host and he's got a great attitude. And in each country - from Dubai to Ireland, to Japan where it started - everyone's kind of putting their own spin on it."
The team have previously made the documentary Small Town Drifter, about Forward's life, which is available to watch via SBS On Demand.
Hesp and O'Neill were also responsible for the Youtube series Australia's Best Street Racer, a comedy show about the adventures had in a 1994 Holden Barina while on the "blockie route" in the Launceston CBD.
As well as Destination Drift, a number of major TV and film projects have been revealed through the Screen Tasmania funding announcement.
Launceston's Vicki Madden is looking to get back into the showrunner's chair, for a new series unrelated to her two hit TV shows, the Kettering Incident on Foxtel and the Gloaming on Stan.
A project called Wireless Hill has received $25,000 from Screen Tasmania, for eight, one-hour episodes of a drama series.
The thriller will be in Madden's trademark Tasmanian Gothic style.
It will be about ten bright young scientists from around the world who are given the opportunity of a lifetime to study on Macquarie Island, near Antarctica.
What they don't know if that they are "unwitting guinea pigs for a powerful biotech company," according to the synopsis.
Robbie Arnott's award-winning debut novel Flames is also getting the small-screen treatment, with $20,000 allocated for six, one-hour episodes of a drama series.
Marieke Hardy has signed up as the showrunner for the project.
Hardy is a former Triple J breakfast presenter, author, and director of the Melbourne Writer's Festival. In television, she was a writer for Packed to the Rafters and ABC comedy Laid.
Long-running Australian TV show McLeod's Daughters could be returning to fans via the movie theatre, with $20,000 allocated to fund the writing of feature film McLeods of Drovers Run.
The film will be an origin story set in Scotland but at least partly filmed in Tasmania.