FTI (WA)

FTI former home in Fremantle, WA

Facade of FTI's old building in Fremantle
Formation	1971 (46 years ago)
Extinction	2017
Coordinates	32°03′03″S 115°44′57″E / 32.050837°S 115.749266°E / -32.050837; 115.749266

FTI WA Inc. (formally the Film and Television Institute) was a Screen Resource centre located in Perth, Western Australia aimed at increasing the vibrancy of the screen sector, including film, television, games and interactive. Before relocating to Perth in May 2014, FTI occupied the heritage-listed old Fremantle Boys School completed in 1855. It was the WA member of Screen Development Australia (SDA), along with other members Metro Screen (NSW), Open Channel (Vic), QPIX (Qld), Media Resource Centre (SA), and Wide Angle Tasmania (Tas).

FTI was a non-profit, membership based organisation providing members with low-cost equipment and facilities hire, production assistance and script consultation, as well as regular production grants for low budget filmmakers.

In 2014, FTI officially moved into the games and interactive space, hiring Kate Raynes-Goldie as its first Director of Interactive Programs, the first of its kind for a non-governmental Australian screen resource association.

In May 2017 amid uncertainty around future funding, FTI announced that it would be closing down and merging with ScreenWest.

Until May 2014 when it moved to the State Library of Western Australia, FTI occupied the heritage-listed old Fremantle Boys School completed in 1855. The building was designed by William Sanford in the Victorian Tudor Style constructed using convict labour the walls are limestone the roof has Dutch gables with shingle covering. Additions were carried out in 1910 by the Public Works Department. The building was placed on the Register of National Estates in March 1972, was given an interim listing on the State register in 1992. It was given permanent listing on the State register as part of the Princess May Reserve in 2001.