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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 2024



THE MOOGAI

(2024)

A young mother is terrorised by an evil spirit intent on taking her children and must protect them at any cost.

PRODUCER: Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings, Mitchell Stanley

DIRECTOR: Jon Bell

WRITER: Jon Bell

PDV: KOJO (SA)


Still from Harold and the Purple Crayon

HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON

(2024)

Columbia Pictures

Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.

DIRECTOR: CARLOS SALDANHA

WRITER: DAVID GUION & MICHAEL HANDELMAN

PDV: RISING SUN PICTURES (SA)


Rebecca Breeds and Adelaide Clemens in Kangaroo Island.

KANGAROO ISLAND

(2024)

Pouch Potato Productions Pty Ltd (SA)

SET TO PREMIERE AT ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2024  —  Forced to reunite with her sister as part of her father’s last wishes, a struggling Hollywood actress returns home to Kangaroo Island and confronts the love triangle that tore her family apart.

PRODUCER: Peter Hanlon (SA), Bettina Hamilton (SA), Daniel Rosenberg, Tim Piper (SA)

DIRECTOR: Tim Piper (SA)

WRITER: Sally Gifford (SA)


Albert Mwangi, Marta Dusseldorp and Melina Vidler in With or WIthout You

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

(2024)

SixtyFourSixty and Carolyn Johnson Films (SA)

SET TO PREMIERE AT ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2024  —  Starring Marta Dusseldorp (Bay of Fires, The Twelve), Melina Vidler (800 Words, Elvis) and Albert Mwangi (Tom Swift, Blueback), With or Without You follows Chloe (Vidler), who sets out to remove her entertaining but alcoholic mother Sharon (Dusseldorp) from the claws of temptation to start new lives in an idyllic location. They find themselves on an expected road trip with mysterious West African refugee Dalu (Mwangi). As the three embark on a trip in Chloe’s rundown wagon, misconceptions and misunderstandings lead to the realisation that facing your fears is the first step to freedom.

PRODUCER: Su Armstrong, Carolyn Johnson (SA)

DIRECTOR: Kelly Schilling (SA)

WRITER: Kelly Schilling (SA)

MORE INFORMATION: READ THE MEDIA RELEASE


Animated still from Lesbian Space Princess

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS

(2024)

We Made A Thing Studios (SA)

SET TO PREMIERE AT ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2024  —  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


Television in 2024


Miranda Otto, Sherry-Lee Watson, Will McDonald and Noah Taylor in Thou Shalt Not Steal.

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THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

(2024)

Ludo Studio

Thou Shalt Not Steal is a Stan Original eight-episode road series set in Central and South Australia in the 1980s. On a search for the truth behind a mysterious family secret, Robyn, a young Aboriginal delinquent, escapes from detention and reluctantly teams up with awkward teenager Gidge. Together they flee her small central desert community on a perilous journey across the outback, finding answers and learning some hard life lessons along the way. Hot on their heels are Maxine, a sex trafficker whose taxi Robyn stole, and Gidge’s domineering father Robert, a fraudulent preacher.

PRODUCER: Tanith Glynn-Maloney, Charlie Aspinwall, Daley Pearson, Sam Moor

DIRECTOR: Dylan River

WRITER: Dylan River, Tanith Glynn-Maloney

MORE INFORMATION: READ THE MEDIA RELEASE

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: Stan


ABC's Teenage Boss promotional banner

TEENAGE BOSS: NEXT LEVEL

(2024)

McAvoy Media

The cost of living in soaring and spending is as easy as a click of a button. Enter Teenage Boss: Next Level!
Under the guidance of brand-new host Emma Watkins (The Amazing Race, Emma Memma), in each episode a South Australian teenager will assume responsibility for their family’s budget for an entire month. Cutting through to young people in a way only Emma can, the aim is to teach the teen (and the family) how to spend money in a sensible and balanced way.

PRODUCER: John McAvoy

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Colin Thrupp (SA)

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: ABC iview


Anna Torv and Philippa Northeast in Territory ride horses.

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TERRITORY

(2024)

Easy Tiger and Ronde

When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill. Territory is the biggest Netflix series ever to be filmed in South Australia, with production and post production taking place in the state, as well as filming in the Northern Territory. Stars Anna Torv, Michael Dorman, Robert Taylor, Sam Corlett.

PRODUCER: Paul Ranford (SA)

DIRECTOR: Greg McLean

WRITER: Tim Lee and Ben Davies

MORE INFORMATION: Read the media release

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: Netflix


Actors Miranda Otto, Debi Mazar and Jessica De Gouw stand against a plain background in 60's style fashion and hair-dos. The image is in black and white.

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LADIES IN BLACK

(2024)

Bunya Entertainment

Following on from the 2018 film of the same name and drawing inspiration from the much-loved 1993 novel, Ladies in Black takes place six months after the events of the original story, where amidst this backdrop of major societal shifts, the women embracing more freedom and independence are forced to confront personal choices and challenges which cast shadows over their once cherished dreams. Stars Debi Mazar (Younger, Entourage), Miranda Otto (The Clearing, Talk To Me), Jessica De Gouw (The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, The Secret She Keeps), Clare Hughes and Azizi Donnelly. Filmed around Adelaide and at the SAFC’s Adelaide Studios, Ladies in Black is the second series to be funded through the ABC SAFC Content Pipeline Fund.

PRODUCER: Sophia Zachariou, Angela Littlejohn, Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey

DIRECTOR: Gracie Otto

WRITER: Greg Waters

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: ABC iview


Dr Michael Mosley lying in a bed smiling

AUSTRALIA’S SLEEP REVOLUTION WITH DR MICHAEL MOSLEY

(2024)

Artemis Media

A three-part series from Artemis Media for SBS that sees serial insomniac Dr Michael Mosley together with some of the nation’s poorest sleepers, put their bodies on the line to trial Australian-led, world first sleep treatments. Teaming up with expert physicians, Dr Michael Mosley will wake up the nation to the dangers of bad slumber and inspire a sleep revolution.

PRODUCER: Katherine Barrett

DIRECTOR: Russell Vines

WRITER: Katherine Barrett, Russell Vines

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: SBS on Demand


Eddie's Lil Homies

EDDIE'S LIL' HOMIES

(2024)

Based on AFL great Eddie Betts’ popular children’s books, Eddie’s Lil’ Homies is the first co-commission between Netflix and NITV, with major production investment from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). The 10 x 12-minute comedy series follows eight-year-old Eddie and his two best friends Lottie and Tal as they navigate the complex and often fantastical waters of childhood. Their friends are their family and the playground is their universe, one where anything and everything is possible, where imaginary friends can be real, games of rock paper scissors can take on stupendous importance and kindness, empathy and a good rap can help put anything right.

PRODUCER: Sophie Byrne, Eddie Betts and Anna Scullie

DIRECTOR: Director: Arthur Moody (SA) Co-Director: Luke Jurevicius (SA)

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: Netflix, SBS on Demand



THE ACOLYTE S1

(2024)

Lucasfilm

Star Wars series that takes viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era. 

DIRECTOR: LESLYE HEADLAND

PDV: RISING SUN PICTURES(SA)

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: DISNEY PLUS


Paramedics S5

PARAMEDICS S5

(2024)

WTFN Entertainment

This compelling documentary series goes on the front line with South Australia’s ambulance crews as they race against time to save lives.

PRODUCER: Greg Reeves, Anne-Maree Sparkman, Juvae Williams, Stephen Rees

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: 9NOW


Documentary in 2024


A short haired woman holds a ukulele

SONGS INSIDE

(2024)

SET TO PREMIERE AT ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2024  —  A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs, as part of a unique music program in an Australian prison. The process opens deep scars around trauma and addiction, but can they prove that music has the universal power to heal, even in the complex world of prison?

PRODUCER: Katrina Lucas (SA), Lauren Drewery (SA), Shalom Almond (SA)

DIRECTOR: Shalom Almond (SA)

WRITER: Shalom Almond (SA)

CO-PRODUCER: Nancy Bates (SA)


Video Game in 2024


Animated Power Rangers characters stand on multiple platforms.

POWER RANGERS: MIGHTY FORCE

(2024)

Mighty Kingdom (SA), East Side Games

POWER RANGERS: MIGHTY FORCE features an original story where POWER RANGERS across every series gather to fight Rita Repulsa’s evil forces. Immerse yourself in the action with limited-time narrative events featuring fan-favourite Rangers and monsters.
 

PLATFORM: APP STORE/GOOGLE PLAY

AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND: APP STORE, GOOGLE PLAY

Cate Blanchett in Stateless, image credit Ben King

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