Film & Art

Our Investment Ideals

1

Built-in audiences

We finance blue chip film, stage and art projects with established audiences and long term fans. Proven stories and beloved names carry their own demand - the audience is there before the curtain rises.

2

Own the story

We invest in intellectual property that outlives any single production. Shows close but rights, recordings, licensing and revivals keep paying - a great story is a royalty stream for generations.

3

Back proven teams

We back proven creative teams the way we back founders. The producer, director and cast decide the outcome, so we bet on people who have delivered before and stay out of the way of the work.

4

Arithmetic approves

We underwrite art like any other investment. Audience, unit economics, distribution and downside are measured before the romance - passion picks the project and arithmetic approves it.

5

Many ways to win

We prefer projects with many ways to win: seasons and touring, film and streaming, licensing, merchandise and revivals. One work, several revenue streams, each with its own audience.

6

Script to opening night

We finance the gap between a finished work and its audience - the capital from script to opening night, structured with first recoupment, capped downside and a fair share of the upside.

7

Culture compounds

We believe culture compounds like capital. Catalogues, characters and companies of artists grow more valuable with every season - time with the work beats timing the season.

8

Australian stories

We champion Australian stories and stages while investing wherever great work is made. Local audiences are loyal audiences, and the best productions travel with the show to the world.

9

Our own capital

We invest our own capital and answer to no limited partners, studios or committees. Free to back the bold production, hold through the slow season and let conviction run the slate.

10

Producers, not patrons

We sit close to the work - producers, not patrons. Capital arrives with stagecraft: budgeting, scheduling and software of our own making running the business behind the art.

Created, Not Just Financed

Hummingbird is a producer as well as a financier. The team behind the fund has created and delivered original work across television, film, stage and publishing. Much of it was made with partners and under their banners, so we keep titles out of print and talk specifics in person.

Television

Syndicated series

We have created television that outlived its premiere — original series taken from first pitch to commission and into syndication, airing across networks and territories season after season, built to rerun for years.

Film

Theatrical releases

Our films have opened in cinemas — features carried from script development through financing, production and post to a theatrical release, then travelling on through streaming and home-entertainment windows.

Stage

Best-selling shows

We have produced stage shows that topped their box office — opening seasons that sold out and extended, then toured to new cities and licensed to new companies. Full houses the story earned, night after night.

Publishing

Best-selling series

We have built book series that became best-sellers — volume after volume, each one growing the readership of the last, then carrying that audience with them into the stage and screen adaptations that follow.

Hummingbird Ventures invests in film, stage and the arts — financing and creating blue chip projects with established audiences and long term fans.