What's Shooting in SA
Below are SAFC funded projects which are currently in either pre-production, principal photography or post production stage.
Please note that the SAFC does not have details pertaining to crew employment opportunities on productions which have received SAFC funding. Professional SA Crew looking for work on the productions listed could try:
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SAFC Funded Feature Dramas
WOLF CREEK 2
Producers: Helen Leake, Greg McLean
Writer/Director: Greg McLean
Synopsis: The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-shooter Mick Taylor.
THE ROVER
Porchlight Films Pty Ltd in association with Lava Bear Films LLC
Producers: Liz Watts, David Linde, David Michôd
Writer/Director: David Michôd
International Sales: FilmNation
Australian Distributor: Village Roadshow
Synopsis: The Australian desert in a dangerous and damaged near future. Eric has left everything, everyone and every semblance of human kindness behind him. And then he has his last possession stolen by a gang of dangerous criminals. Eric sets off on a ruthless mission to track them down, forced along the way to enlist the help of Rey, the naïve and injured junior member of the gang, who was left behind in the bloody chaos of the gang’s most recent robbery.
TRACKS
See-Saw Films
Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning (See-Saw Films) and Julie Ryan (Cyan Films)
Writer/Director: John Curran
Production Dates: 2012-2013
Synopsis: Based on the true story of Robyn Davidson’s epic journey through the Australian desert TRACKS is quintessentially Australian film telling a universal story of discovery and survival.
Television Drama Series
SAM FOX: EXTREME ADVENTURES
SLR Productions Pty Ltd
Producer/Executive Producer: Suzanne Ryan
Writer: Keith Thompson
Broadcaster: Network Ten
International Sales: ZDFE
Synopsis: Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures is an action-packed adventure series about teenage ‘danger magnet’ Sam Fox as he braves the wilds from open ocean to deepest jungle, coming face to face with killer sharks, man-eating leopards, raging tornadoes, erupting volcanoes, deadly scorpions, giant anacondas and much, much more.
Broadcast Documentaries
HANNAH GADSBY'S OZ (TV Series 3 x 27min Episodes)
Closer Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Rebecca Summerton
Writers: Hannah Gadsby & Matthew Bate
Production Dates: TBA
Director: Matthew Bate
Broadcasters: ABC TV – 3 part Artscape series
Synopsis: "Australian stand up comedian Hannah Gadsby is a closet art scholar. Armed with a rapier wit and desire to pick beneath the paint, she travels across the continent in search of Australia's national identity."
I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES
Closer Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Rebecca Summerton
Executive Producer: Sophie Hyde
Writers/Directors: Matt Bate, Gideon Obarzanek
Production Dates: October 2012 - June 2013
Synopsis: In need of some form of human contact, a grieving man takes up Latin dance classes with a young instructor.
PROJECT BABY
Secret Key Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Katrina Lucas
Co-Producer: Shalom Almond
Executive Producer: Lauren Drewery
Writer/Director: Shalom Almond
Production Dates: November 2012 - June 2013
Synopsis: When documentary film-maker Shalom Almond turns to controversial Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis IVF to start a family, she begins to question the process and her own personal ethics.
MEATWORKS
Projector Films Pty Ltd
Producer: Daniel Joyce
Director: Madeleine Parry
Duration: 26mins
Production Dates: February 2012 to June 2012
Synoposis: Madeleine Parry, documentarian and one-time slaughter woman, enlists at her local abattoir to reveal the hidden experience of the men who kill what we eat.
Feature Documentaries
SAM KLEMKE'S TIME MACHINE
Closer Productions Pty Ltd
Producer: Rebecca Summerton
Director: Matt Bate
Duration: 85mins
Production dates: TBA
Synopsis: A man with an obsession for documenting his life travels through personal and world history, exploring what it means to be human.
ROUGH DIAMONDS
Producer: Sarah Wishart
Director: Jeni Lee
Duration: 60mins
Production dates: TBA
Synopsis: Meet Mac Hayes, a tough working class biker bloke from country Australia who is doing his own little bit for reconciliation, mediating between divided worlds.
Digital Media Projects
TIME TREMORS
A transmedia children’s fantasy, Australian-Canadian co-production between People’s Republic of Animation (PRA) and Xenophile Media (Canada)
Producer: Patrick Crowe (Xenophile Media), Sam White (PRA)
Executive Producer: Lenora Hume
Broadcasters: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and ABC.
Production dates: TBA
Synopsis: Fourteen-year old Max Reno and his ten-year old sister Medie find themselves banished to Ranksome Hall — a gloomy boarding school, with staff even stranger than its sinister setting. Max and Medie soon discover that the terrifying biology teacher, Miss Bugly, is actually a malevolent demon who literally feeds on the fear she inspires in the students and that the school itself is built on the brink of an unstable fault line in time through which objects, animals and people appear and disappear.
RINGBALIN
Producers: Jocelyn Pederick and Ben Pederick
Executive Producer: Julia De Roeper
Multiplatform Documentary
Production dates: TBA
DOUBLE HAPPY VS. THE INFINITE SADNESS
Monkeystack Pty Ltd
Producer:Justin Wight
Executive Producer:Jennifer Wilson
Writers: Simon Butters (SA), Matt Cotello (US)
Production Dates: March to June 2012
Synopsis: How long can the Double Happy Rabbits keep the Infinite Sadness’corruption at bay from the Isles of the Ancients? Venture forth with our neo-pop edgy cute rabbits in their manic adventures as they set out to halt this all consuming, entropic force.
PELEDA
Vishus Productions
Produced & Directed by Luke & Nathan Jurevicius
Broadcasters: ABC3
Production Dates: February to October 2012
Synopsis: Peleda is an immersive TV and game quest to reclaim a fantastical world from the destructive clutches of Giltine, queen of the owls.
THE ADVENTURES OF FIGARO PHO
Chocolate Liberation Front / Ambience Entertainment
Producers: Dan Fill, Frank Verheggen
Writer/Director: Luke Jurevicius
Production Dates: 2011- December 2012
Synopsis: Figaro Pho is a warm-hearted, adorable, quirky and mischevious character who just happens to be afflicted with a multitude of weird and wonderful phobias
FilmLab Projects
THE INFINITE MAN
Hedone Productions
Producer: Sandy Cameron, Kate Croser
Writer: Hugh Sullivan
Director: Hugh Sullivan
Production Dates: March 2013
Synopsis: The Infinite Man is a time travel comedy-romance about a man whose attempts to change the past reveal him to be his own worst enemy.
ONE EYED GIRL
Projector Films
Producer: David Ngo
Writers: Craig Behenna & Nick Matthews
Director: Nick Matthews
Production Dates: February 2012 - June 2012
Synopsis: A fast-paced thriller about a psychiatrist who falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl from a doomsday cult.
THE DEAD SPEAK BACK
Velvet Orange
Producer: Julie Byrne
Writer/Director: Jason Sweeney
Production Dates: January 2012 - April 2012
Synopsis: The Dead Speak Back journeys through a surreal world of secrets, songs and shadows of the nearly departed, a deepening mystery of a victim of crime disappeared. But at what point do we fall into the mystery too far?
INNER DEMON
Producers: Julie Byrne & Sue Brown
Writer/Director: Ursula Dabrowsky
Production Dates: December 2011 - February 2012
Synopsis: Inner Demon is the second instalment in Dabrowsky's Demon Trilogy after Family Demons (2009).
A supernatural revenge horror about a young teenage girl Sam Durelle, who is the victim of a brutal kidnapping. She finds refuge in an isolated farm house only to discover it is home to greater horrors and a malevolent spirit. Trapped in the house, Sam is propelled into a struggle for survival, one that will push her to the limits not only physically and emotionally, but spiritually.
52 TUESDAYS
Closer Productions
Producer/Co-Writer/Director: Sophie Hyde
Producer/DOP/Editor: Bryan Mason
Producer/Writer: Matt Cormack
Producer: Rebecca Summerton
Production Dates: July 2011 - August 2012
Synopsis: 52 Tuesdays is a fictional film shot chronologically every Tuesday for one year. It tells the story of the changing relationship between a mother and daughter whose time together becomes limited to every Tuesday afternoon. Over the year the daughter will become a woman and the mother will become a man.