SAGE 2024 South Australian Game Exhibition announced the inaugural SAGE Awards on Friday night, at the half-way point of Adelaide’s biggest gathering of games studios and game enthusiasts. A staggering 2,000+ people attended the event at Adelaide Studios over the weekend to play and experience the best in South Australian-made video games, and meet the […]

Leo Cheung is a dentist-turned-video game developer and founder of emerging South Australian studio Paper Cactus Games. Three years ago, Leo Cheung left his job as a dentist to pursue his passion for games, establishing Paper Cactus Games and commencing work on his first video game, Fox and Shadow. Since then, Fox and Shadow has […]

Adelaide’s newest and biggest video games showcase, South Australian Game Exhibition (SAGE), has launched two new awards to celebrate innovation and excellence in the state’s games sector and announced the exciting program of speakers and panels at this week’s free, family-friendly event. Presented by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) as the flagship event on […]

The South Australian screen industry was the star of the show at the 2024 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, with SA screen creatives and SAFC supported films scooping 14 awards. Held over two nights last week in Brisbane, the AACTAs are Australia’s highest honours for film and television production. SA made […]

The SAFC bids a very fond farewell to Tony Young, who finishes as the SAFC’s IT Manager this month after an incredible 30 years working in the SA screen industry and 20 years working with the SAFC. Tony’s first 10 years in the screen industry were spent working as a sound editor and sound recordist on more […]

South Australian creatives Matt Vesely and Lisa Scott have been announced as recipients of the Screen Australia and Australians in Film (AiF) Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange 2024. SA writer and director Matt Vesely has been selected for Talent Gateway, which provides established Australian writer/directors who have demonstrated a high level of recent international […]

South Australian writer Emily Steel is one of six screenwriting creatives from across Australia to have been selected for the third year of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, an initiative from SBS in partnership with Screen Australia and state and territory agencies including the SAFC, and with the assistance of the Australian Writers’ Guild. The SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator is a nationwide industry […]