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View SAFC supported screen productions made in South Australia from 1975 to today.

This showcase includes feature film, television series, short film and documentary productions filmed, produced and/or post-produced in South Australia, as well as South Australian made video games.

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Feature Film in 2025



PENNY LANE IS DEAD

(2025)

Sanctuary Pictures, Buffalo Media, Cyan Films (SA)

PREMIERING AT ADELAIDE FILM FESVIAL 2025 — During a sweltering Australian summer in 1986, a carefree night at a beach house turns deadly when a prank spirals out of control, leaving three teenage best friends to fight for their lives. Penny Lane is Dead is a wild, blood-soaked descent into love, betrayal and survival.

PRODUCER: Julie Ryan (SA), Ari Harrison, Andre Lima, Carly Maple (SA)

DIRECTOR: Mia’Kate Russell

WRITER: Mia’Kate Russell

MORE INFORMATION: Read the media release


A woman holding a baby stands in a wheat field with wind turbines in the distance.

THE RUN

(2025)

Arterial Films (SA)

PREMIERING AT AFF 2025 — In a dystopian, post-pandemic world crippled by a global fertility crisis, an ageing smuggler struggles to protect a runaway teenager and her newborn baby from ruthless criminals, while trying complete his run for his vicious employers.

PRODUCER: Chloe Gardner (SA)

DIRECTOR: Stephen De Villiers (SA)

WRITER: Stephen De Villiers (SA)



THE FOX

(2025)

Causeway Films, Protagonist Pictures

SCREENING AT AFF 2025 — In this dark comedic folktale, an affable foxhunter encounters a shape-shifting fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his partner into the perfect woman and in doing so take control of the natural world.

PRODUCER: Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, Carly Maple (SA)

DIRECTOR: Dario Russo (SA)

WRITER: Dario Russo (SA)


A young woman clutches a man who holds onto her as she screams. Black liquid pours out of her mouth.

DIABOLIC

(2025)

Sunjive Studios/Empire Road Pictures (SA)

PREMIERING AT AFF 2025 — A woman’s hope for a miracle cure turns into a nightmare when she confronts the vengeful spirit of a cursed witch, determined to claim her as a vessel for her evil power.

PRODUCER: Silvio Salom, Daniel J. Phillips (SA), Mark Patterson (SA), Grant Hardie, Vasili Papanicolou

DIRECTOR: Daniel J. Phillips (SA)

WRITER: Daniel J. Phillips (SA), Mike Harding


First look photo for Sophie Hyde's "Jimpa", John Lithgow and Olivia Colman (2024)

JIMPA

(2025)

Closer Productions (SA), Mad Ones Films, Viking Film

OPENING NIGHT FILM AT AFF 2025 — Jimpa tells of film director Hannah (Olivia Colman) and her non-binary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) who travel to Amsterdam to visit Frances’ beloved gay grandfather “Jim-pa” (John Lithgow). When Frances yearns to stay with Jim for their final year of school, Hannah has to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and confront old stories about her relationship with her father. Also stars Daniel Henshall (The Royal Hotel), Kate Box (Erotic Stories), Eamon Farren (The Witcher), Cody Fern (American Horror Story), Tilda Cobham-Hervey (I Am Woman), Deborah Kennedy (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Hans Kesting (Nr. 10), Zoë Love Smith (Skam NL), Romana Vrede (I Don’t Wanna Dance), Jean Janssens (Campus 12) and Frank Sanders (The Rozettes musical).

PRODUCER: Liam Heyen, Marleen Slot, Bryan Mason (SA), Sophie Hyde (SA)

DIRECTOR: Sophie Hyde (SA)

WRITER: Sophie Hyde (SA), Matthew Cormack (SA)

MORE INFORMATION: READ THE MEDIA RELEASE


Animated still from Lesbian Space Princess

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS

(2025)

We Made A Thing Studios (SA)

WORLD PREMIERE BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025:  An anxious space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens. Along the way, a problematic spaceship and a runaway gay-pop idol join her hazardous encounters with blade-wielding maniacs, dangerous dick turrets and the scariest thing of all: her own self-doubt.

PRODUCER: Tom Phillips (SA)

DIRECTOR: Emma Hough Hobbs (SA) and Leela Varghese (SA)

WRITER: Emma Hough Hobbs (SA) and Leela Varghese (SA)

MORE INFORMATION: Read the media release


Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17

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MICKEY 17

(2025)

Offscreen, Plan B Entertainment, Kate Street Picture Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures

Mickey 17 is an “expendable”, a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact.

PRODUCER: Bong Joon-ho, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Dooho Choi

DIRECTOR: Bong Joon-ho

WRITER: Bong Joon-ho

PDV: Rising Sun Pictures (SA)


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BRING HER BACK

(2025)

Causeway Films and RackaRacka (SA)

IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS 29 MAY, 2025 — Bring Her Back is the second feature film from Danny and Michael Philippou, the Adelaide-born filmmakers behind the explosive global success Talk To Me. Cast announced include two-time Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Billy Barratt (Responsible Child, Kraven the Hunter), Jonah Wren-Phillips (Sweet Tooth), Sally-Anne Upton (Wentworth), Stephen Phillips (The Leftovers) and newcomer Sora Wong.
A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.

PRODUCER: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton

DIRECTOR: Danny and Michael Philippou (SA)

WRITER: Bill Hinzman (SA), Danny Philippou (SA)

MORE INFORMATION: READ THE MEDIA RELEASE


Television in 2025


Tony Armstrong, Kirsha Kaechele and Vince Trim stand in front of a grey concrete wall.

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EAT THE INVADERS

(2025)

Closer Productions (SA)

Australia’s unique biodiversity is being attacked and overrun by the invasive plants and animals brought here by our colonial ancestors. Pests like cane toads, camels, carp, cats, deer and rabbits have driven many of our native plants and animals to the brink of extinction. But what if a radical rethink could help turn this problem into an opportunity? Over six episodes filmed around Australia, host Tony Armstrong – with the help of scientists, land carers and an artist and a chef – will attempt to turn our unwanted ecological trash into desirable culinary gold, in a provocative attempt to Eat the Invaders.

PRODUCER: Sarah Wormald (SA)

DIRECTOR: Matthew Bate (SA)

WRITER: Matthew Bate (SA)

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rebecca Summerton (SA)

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: ABC Iview



SUPER SHARK HIGHWAY

(2025)

Breakout Productions (SA)

PREMIERES 7 PLUS 6 JANUARY 2025  — Super Shark Highway is a six-part documentary series, exploring the migration patterns of the world’s deadliest sharks. In a world first research expedition, two elite teams will track the ocean’s greatest predator along remote and unexplored shark migration routes – giving scientists critical data that will help them unlock mysteries surrounding shark movements, hunting behaviours, social hierarchies and breeding sanctuaries crucial to the survival of the species.

PRODUCER: Colin Thrupp (SA)

DIRECTOR: Steve Geddes (SA)


Documentary in 2025



WE ARE NOT POWERLESS

(2025)

PREMIERING AT AFF 2025 — In December 2012, Muzafar Ali and his wife Nagina escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan. They found themselves living in Indonesia as refugees when Australia ‘stopped the boats’. Determined to do something, they started a small two room school, which soon became the hub of a community and one of the most successful refugee-led initiatives in the world.

PRODUCER: Jolyon Hoff (SA), Muzafar Ali (SA), Hamish Gibbs Ludbrook (SA)

DIRECTOR: Jolyon Hoff (SA), Muzafar Ali (SA)

WRITER: Jolyon Hoff (SA), Muzafar Ali (SA)



IRON WINTER

(2025)

Repeater Productions (SA)

SCREENING AT ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2025 — In Mongolia’s coldest valley, horses mean life. But  in the Iron Winter, nothing can survive alone. For countless generations, the herders of the Tsakhir Valley have protected their horses from ferocious arctic storms by amassing a giant winter herd, nominating their bravest young men to protect it.

The daring tradition served as a brutal coming of age ritual, until five years ago, when under increasing environmental pressure, it abruptly ended. Fearful about the loss of culture, elders soon vowed to revive it. And two young friends were handed the daunting responsibility to not only protect the valley’s herd — but to save its most sacred practice. For four months, the boys battle Mongolia’s deadliest winter on record, testing friendship and faith in a fight to keep 2000 horses alive, and preserve an ancient way of life.

PRODUCER: Ben Golotta (SA), Morgan Wright (SA), Chris Kamen

DIRECTOR: Kasimir Burgess

WRITER: Ed Cavanough (SA), Enebish Sengemugaa


Anthony Frith at The Asylum production company

MOCKBUSTER

(2025)

PREMIERING AT AFF 2025 — The Asylum, a notorious US production house known for producing “mockbusters” – low-budget films created to exploit the publicity of upcoming major releases – have tasked Anthony to direct a feature-length mockbuster in Australia with only a micro-budget and a six-day shoot – a challenge that will push him and his crew to their limits.

PRODUCER: Sandy Cameron (SA), David Elliot-Jones, Naomi Ball

DIRECTOR: Anthony Frith (SA)

WRITER: Anthony Frith (SA), Sandy Cameron (SA)


Video Game in 2025


Two anime-style characters hold up fists.

GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- (Nintendo Switch edition)

(2025)

Tantalus South (SA), Arc System Works

GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- is the seventh installment in the Guilty Gear series, featuring the final confrontation of Sol Badguy and That Man, Asuka R. Kreutz. Tantalus South worked with Arc System Works to develop this Nintendo Switch port.
 

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: Nintendo Switch

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