South Australian Film Corporation

03/06/2026

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT!🚨Calling all emerging producers! Applications are open for Bus Stop Films' Inclusive Producers Attachment Program, supported by the SAFC. The selected team of emerging producers will work with Bus Stop's Dianna La Grassa to bring to life a slate of 21 inclusively made films.

Calling all emerging producers! Applications are now open for the Bus Stop Films Inclusive Producer’s Attachment Program, supported by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC). Bus Stop Films is looking for a team of emerging producers to come on board for their 2026 class film projects as Inc...

29/05/2026

📢NEWS!📢 SA made and SAFC supported films are being screened all over Australia!

💡 Anthony Frith's MOCKBUSTER and Mia'Kate Russell's PENNY LANE IS DEAD have just been announced as part of the Revelation Film Festival: https://www.revelationfilmfest.org/

🏰 Mufazar Ali and Jolyon Hoff's WE ARE NOT POWERLESS has been selected for the Castlemaine Documentary Festival, wrapping up a national tour of screenings and Q&A sessions over the next month: https://wearenotpowerless.com.au/

28/05/2026

📢NEWS!📢 Get your first look at the new SA horror THE DEBT, the latest feature film to come out of Film Lab: New Voices initiative from the SAFC, Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival. Production has now wrapped on the debut feature from writers Piri Eddy and Pearl Berry, producer Lilla Berry and director Johanis Lyons-Reid. THE DEBT is breaking ground as the first feature film made by a SA First Nations-led creative team with major state government support. Get the full story including cast and more first look images on the SAFC website 👇

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 Pir...

27/05/2026

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT!🚨Calling all emerging screenwiters, directors and creatives! Want to broaden your contact base? Applications close TOMORROW for the Melbourne International Film Festival 37ºSouth Market PostScript & Direct initiative, which enables participants to pitch to a selection of Australia/NZ producers in order to interest them in your work and skills in a series of 20-minute one-to-one meetings. Find out more and apply: https://miffindustry.com/37osouth-market/call-for-submissions/writer-director-creative/

26/05/2026

🎉NEWS!🎉 RFDS S3 has been awarded a Bronze Tower at the 2026 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards in the Entertainment Program – Drama category. The SA made and SAFC supported season of the acclaimed Endemol Shine Australia drama was produced by SA's Lisa Scott and filmed entirely in South Australia, using locations in Adelaide including the SAFC's Adelaide Studios, Port Augusta and Quorn.

24/05/2026

📢NEWS!📢 The SAFC is powering-up South Australia's video games sector with $500,000 in funding and a new industry advisory group. The SAFC's Digital Games Fund is designed to boost the development of original, innovative video games in the state, with 11 exciting projects selected to receive funding:

🔮 The Troll & the Witch’s House by Little Bandit
🎲 Yakshini Lokam by Soft Magnets
🍜 Life, Death and Ramen by We Made a Thing Studios
🏈 Pro Jank Footy by Powerbomb Games
🧊 TOYA. by The RnD Department
🐁 Pipsqueak! by Pond Games
🍄 Delphinium by Cinnadev
🟠 One Pop Planet by Mauii Makes Games
😈 End of Ember by Bad Plan Studios
🤖 Photo Roboto by Monomyth Games
🍭 Peppermint by Cowboy Fish

Learn more about the selected games, plus meet our new Games Industry Advisory Group (GIAG): https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/safc-powers-up-south-australias-video-games-sector-with-500000-funding-for-11-projects-and-new-industry-advisory-group/

22/05/2026

📢NEWS!📢 Three SA screen creatives have been selected for Screen Australia and Ausfilm's 2026 Partner with Australia (UK) initiative, designed to deepen creative and commercial partnerships between the Australian and UK screen industries. Congratulations to writer Joshua Tyler and producers Lisa Scott of Highview Productions and Rebecca Summerton of Closer Productions! Read more: https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/2026-delegation-for-partner-with-australia-uk-initiative-announced/

20/05/2026

Get your first look at Dario Russo's darkly funny THE FOX with the teaser trailer from Madman Films and Causeway Films 🦊 The debut feature of SA writer/director (and editor/composer) Dario Russo, THE FOX filmed and produced entirely in South Australia with the support of the SAFC and Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. Produced by Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings and SA's Carly Maple. Language warning! 🫢

Coming to Australian cinemas October 29.

From director Dario Russo. Starring Emily Browning, Jai Courtney, Damon Herriman, Claudia Doumit, Zlatko Burić, Frankie J. Holden, Heather Mitchell, Kim Gyng...

20/05/2026

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT!🚨 Calling all factual First Nations filmmakers! Screen Australia has today launched the First Nations Factual Co-production Development Fund, supported by the SAFC. The program will support up to five First Nations screen businesses in international markets with a grant of $30,000 for the development of two factual projects and attendance at Canada's TIFF: The Market. Applications close Thursday, 4 June 👇

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 sta...

18/05/2026

You're invited! Join the SAFC and The Mercury for a special National Reconciliation Week event celebrating three of South Australia's most talented up-and-coming First Nations filmmakers, plus connect with industry colleagues over a coffee.

SAFC Head of First Nations Kirstie Parker will host a special in-conversation event with Lilla Berry, Josh Trevorrow and Travis Akbar. Hear their stories, the challenges and opportunities shaping their careers, and their perspectives on reconciliation, representation and truth-telling in Australia today.

📍 The Mercury Cinema
📆 Monday, 1 June
⏰️ 10.30–11.30am Coffee and networking in the Mercury foyer and laneway / 11.30am–12.30pm Panel discussion
🎟️ FREE but registration is essential

SA Screen Industry Coffee Networking Morning andPanel Discussion Event for National Reconciliation Week 2026 Join the South Australian Film Corporation and The Mercury for a special National Reconciliation Week event celebrating some of South Australia’s most talented up-and-coming First Natio...