Original and compelling screen stories created by content makers with disability is the focus of the FULL TILT short documentary initiative, from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) in partnership with SBS. Three stand-alone short screen works by South Australian filmmakers will premiere on SBS’s streaming platform, SBS On Demand, in 2019. CEO of the […]
Big-budget Chinese television drama series If Time Flows Back starring one of China’s biggest stars is due to wrap this week on three episodes set and shot in South Australia. Iconic locations from North Terrace to the Barossa Valley will be showcased to an audience of more than 90 million people via Chinese television and […]
One of Australia’s leading film and television production companies, Matchbox Pictures, this week opens its South Australian office. The SA branch, based at Adelaide Studios, is headed up by South Australian producer Kirsty Stark who will drive the local development slate in with Matchbox. A respected local practitioner, Stark comes to this newly created Development […]
Screen Australia in association with the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and Create NSW have announced production investment funding for world-class VFX supervisor Seth Larney’s first Australian feature 2067, which he has written and will direct. Seth made his directorial debut on the Malaysian box office hit action film Tombiruo (2017) after a long career […]
South Australia stands to benefit more than any other state from the announcement by the Federal Government this morning of a competitive AUD$140million Location Incentive Fund to attract major international film and television production to Australia. The Location Incentive will effectively provide an increase to the Location Offset rate from 16.5 per cent to 30 […]
One of Australia’s most successful television production companies, Screentime, will open an office in Adelaide and commence production of hit TV show RBT on Adelaide streets from July. Screentime, says its decision to open in Adelaide is in response to its growing slate of South Australian television productions that includes high end drama Pine Gap […]
The new South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) Chief Executive Courtney Gibson today introduced a suite of initiatives focused on growth that will see the state embracing greater diversity and chasing a larger share of Australia’s screen production market, thereby delivering more jobs into the state’s screen sector. These new initiatives complement South Australia’s unparalleled incentives, […]
Entertainment One (eOne), Goalpost Pictures Australia, Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and The Northern Territory Government announced today that Top End Wedding, a new feature film co-written by and starring Darwin’s own Miranda Tapsell is set to go into production mid-April in Adelaide and then across the Northern Territory. Top End Wedding is co-written […]
With filming currently underway in Adelaide, Netflix and ABC are pleased to announce the superb cast heading up the thrilling six-part drama series Pine Gap. Set to screen later in the year, Pine Gap stars, Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant, Wolf Creek Season 2), Jacqueline McKenzie (Safe Harbour, Romper Stomper, 4400), […]
Adelaide, SA: The South Australian Film Corporation today announced leading industry figure Courtney Gibson as the new CEO of the SAFC. She takes over the role from Annabelle Sheehan and will commence on Tuesday April 3. An accomplished leader in the Australian screen industry, Courtney Gibson has worked at a senior executive level across both television […]
