The ABC, BBC and the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) are excited to announce the gripping South Australian made crime drama series Treasure & Dirt will premiere Sunday 19 July at 8.30pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview. Filmed in Coober Pedy in outback South Australia, Treasure & Dirt […]
The South Australian Film Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of highly experienced film and television producer, executive producer and screen industry leader Jeanie Davison as SAFC Production Executive (Inbound & Studios). With an international career spanning development, production and screen sector strategy, Jeanie comes to the SAFC from Screen Careers, where as Head […]
Production has wrapped in Adelaide on new horror The Debt, the latest feature film to come out of South Australia’s successful Film Lab: New Voices initiative from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF). The debut feature from writer Piri Eddy and Yankunytjatjara writer Pearl Berry, Yankunytjatjara producer […]
South Australia’s video game development sector is powering up, with new South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) funding and a dedicated expert advisory group set to drive growth in the industry. Eleven South Australian game studios have been selected to share in $500,000 to further development of their video game projects through the SAFC’s new Digital […]
Screen Australia’s First Nations Department has today opened applications for the First Nations Factual Co-production Development Fund, a new national program designed to strengthen and elevate First Nations screen businesses in international markets. Supported by the SAFC, alongside the other state screen agencies, the program will support up to five First Nations businesses to expand […]
The SAFC bids a very fond farewell to Leanne Ridley, who retires this month from her role as SAFC Receptionist after an incredible 25 years of service. As the smiling face of the SAFC for more than two decades, greeting visitors, staff, tenants and the occasional Hollywood star from her position at the Reception desk, […]
Calling all emerging and early-career South Australians First Nations screen creatives! Get hands-on training, develop your skills and forge a career in television production with the SAFC and Channel 44’s First Nations Internship Program. This exciting skills development program offers the opportunity for two to three South Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander screen creatives […]
South Australia’s screen sector was strongly represented at SCREEN FOREVER 40 on the Gold Coast this week, with a contingent of SA producers in attendance, including nine practitioners directly supported by the SAFC. SA creatives supported to attend the conference included Hamish Ludbrook and Jolyon Hoff of Light Sound Art Film, Kirsty Stark of Epic Films, Marion Pilowsky […]
Released 45 years ago, Gallipoli (1981) has endured as one of Australia’s most defining war films. Written by David Williamson and directed by Peter Weir, the film captures not only the scale and horror of this historic battle, but the deeply human stories at its heart – friendship, courage and the cost of conflict. Filmed […]
Want to know how a TV comedy episode actually gets written? The SAFC is offering ten subsidised passes for SA writers to observe the Australians in Film (AiF) Insider Sessions – Inside a U.S. Writers’ Room: LIVE! Comedy Edition, delivered in partnership with Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG). Led by acclaimed writer and producer Sam Laybourne (DMV, Acapulco, Zoey’s […]
