South Australian Film Corporation

08/09/2026

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF STORM BOY 🌊 The SAFC was delighted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of STORM BOY last month with a special screening presented in partnership with 891 ABC Adelaide and The Mercury – and now you can see it on the big screen too. Released in 1976, STORM BOY is one of Australia’s most beloved and enduring films, inspiring and entertaining generations of children. Relive the magic on Sunday, 13 September at The Mercury, with a special double feature of STORM BOY and PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK co-presented by the SAFC.

A near capacity crowd turned out last night for a special 50th anniversary screening of Storm Boy, presented by the SAFC in partnership with 891 ABC Adelaide and The Mercury for ABC’s Film Club. Released in 1976, Storm Boy is one of Australia’s most beloved and enduring films. Filmed in South Au...

07/09/2026

🎉NEWS!🎉 Adelaide-born actor and screen creative Damon Herriman was presented with the CinefestOZ 2026 Screen Legend Award, which honours an Australian actor or filmmaker of international repute. He also took out Best Screenplay in the CinefestOZ Short Film Awards for CANDY BAR.

And SA made short film LIABILITY from writer/director David Daradan and producer Jasmine J. Leech won the Diversity & Inclusion Award. The short was produced through The Mercury Quicksilver initiative with support from the SAFC.

See all the winners: https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/industry-news/sweet-milk-lake-cinefest-oz-prize-winners-2707492/

📸 (left) Damon Herriman in CANDY BAR, (right) Joshua Campton in LIABILITY

04/09/2026

The SAFC was delighted to partner with Inclusively Made and Northern Pictures to present The Value of Inclusive Production earlier this week 👏 Using the SA made and SAFC supported third season of ABC’s hit comedy AUSTIN as a case study, this insightful session explored how to embed inclusivity at all stages of production and how inclusive practices can strengthen creative outcomes and industry impact.

Thanks to our speakers:

🌟 Henry Smith (Inclusively Made)
🌟 Joe Weatherstone (Northern Pictures)
🌟 Shannon Wilson-McClinton (Northern Pictures)
🌟 Michelle Hardy (Hardy White Pictures, Austin S3 co-producer)
🌟 Michael Theo (Actor)

And thanks to all who came along and engaged with this important topic!

03/09/2026

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT!🚨Calling all SA screenwriters! Want to make your logline stick? Thanks to Australians in Film, the SAFC is offering five subsidised passes to join AiF's Insider Sessions – Logline Workshop: The Sticky Concept, to be held online on 23 September. Join acclaimed screenwriter Ellen Shanman for an energetic, highly interactive 90-minute workshop on turning your idea into a logline with real commercial impact. PLUS get the chance to have your logline workshopped by Ellen live during the session. EOIs are open until 14 September ⏳️

Your logline is often the first, and sometimes only, chance to convince someone your story is worth reading. So how do you make it stick? South Australian writers can get the inside edge at the Australians in Film (AiF) Insider Sessions – Logline Workshop: The Sticky Concept (23 September, online)...

01/09/2026

📣NEWS!📣 Regional SA screen practitioners Ekkia Evans and Isaac Coen Lindsay are among the 11 participants selected for Screenworks New Kids on the Block 2026, supported by the SAFC! The cohort will receive financial assistance and on-the-ground guidance to attend the Regional to Global Screen Forum in Northern NSW next week. The program includes four SA speakers plus two case studies for SAFC supported projects – check it out 👇

Screenworks has announced two regional South Australian screen practitioners as participants for the 2026 edition of New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), supported by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC). SA creatives Ekkia Evans and Isaac Coen Lindsay are among the 11 emerging practitioners selec...

31/08/2026

THE RUN is now streaming on Netflix – and it's already made it to the Top 10 movies chart in Australia! This SA made and SAFC supported dystopian thriller is the debut feature of SA writer/director Stephen de Villiers and SA producer Chloe Gardner. Congratulations to the whole team 👏 Watch now: https://www.netflix.com/title/82674341

28/08/2026

📣NEWS!📣 MY BRILLIANT CAREER has doubled down on its brilliant ratings success, rising to No.2 on the Netflix global Top 10 chart in its second week, attracting nearly 8 million views across 190 countries! The SA made and SAFC supported Netflix series is currently sitting in the top 10 in 72 countries, including Australia (No.2), the US (No.6), the UK (No.5) and New Zealand (No.2) 👏

The exciting new South Australian Netflix series My Brilliant Career has doubled down on its brilliant ratings success, rising to No.2 on the Netflix global Top 10 chart in its second week, attracting nearly 8 million views across 190 countries!   Following its launch on Netflix across 190 countrie...

27/08/2026

🎬️OUT NOW!🍿 MOCKBUSTER is in cinemas now, with SA writer/director Anthony Frith embarking on a Q&A tour to support the release.

Made in SA with support from the SAFC, MOCKBUSTER follows Anthony's efforts to make THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT – a lost-world dinosaur epic for infamous American B-movie production house The Asylum, filmed in suburban Adelaide in just six days.

★ ★ ★ ★ Guardian Australia

★ ★ ★ ★ "Funny, insightful, and surprisingly inspiring" — The AU Review

"Charming and playful" — RogerEbert.com

Co-written by SA's Sandy Cameron and produced by David Elliot-Jones, Cameron, and Naomi Ball. See it next in Adelaide at Odeon Star Cinemas on Friday, 4 September: https://www.odeonstar.com.au/movie/mockbuster

27/08/2026

🎉NEWS!🎉 Congratulations to the SA made producions and screen creatives who have been celebrated at the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG) 2026 Awards:

🏆️ SAFC supported horror BRING HER BACK won the Production Design for a Feature Film Award for a team including SA's Erica Ockenden and the Make-Up, Prosthetic Make-Up or Hair Design Award for a team including SA's Rebecca Buratto

🏆️ SA Costume Designer Heather Wallace won the Costume Design for a Feature Film Award for her work on Warwick Thornton's WOLFRAM

See all the winners: https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/australian-production-design-guild-announces-2026-award-winners/

📸 Sally Hawkins in BRING HER BACK

26/08/2026

📦️OUT NOW!⚔️ BOX KNIGHT has launched globally on Steam with over 10k wishlists! Developed by Adelaide Studios-based We Made A Thing Studios, BOX KNIGHT was initially developed with support from the SAFC’s former Games Innovation Fund and was the inaugural winner of the SAGE Award for Best in Exhibition in 2024. Become the Box Knight and brawl through a monster-infested office, floor by floor, boss by boss, in this irreverent action roguelike. Play now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1678650/Box_Knight/