New screen businesses at SAFC

The SAFC’s Adelaide Studios has welcomed four South Australian screen businesses as new tenants.

They are:

• International content producer and distributor Blue Ant Media, with Senior VP of Finance and Operations Jake Richardson;

• Producer Lisa Scott and Highview Productions, the company behind international hit drama series The Tourist;

• Producer Peter Lawson and Steel Springs Pictures, recently relocated from Los Angeles, the company behind feature film Alice which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and

• The Everyone Project, an exciting initiative managed by the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network to measure and boost diversity and inclusion in the Australian film and television industry.

28 South Australian screen businesses and screen practitioners work across all areas of screen production at the site.

SAFC CEO Kate Croser formally welcomed the new tenants as part of a special industry networking event last week.

“It is truly exciting to see our Adelaide Studios screen community continue to grow, with such an influx of talented tenants making our creative mix of screen businesses and practitioners even more vibrant and dynamic,” she said.

The networking evening was enjoyed by about 120 screen industry members including special guests SAFC Board Chair Julie Cooper; SAFC Board members Austin Taylor, Miriam Silva, Bec Summerton and Ann-Maree Davies; the SAFC’s newly appointed First Nations Screen Strategy Executive Pauline Clague; members of the SAFC’s First Nations Advisory Committee Elaine Crombie and Shouwn Oosting and Mercury CX CEO Karena Slaninka, as well as members of Adelaide Studios tenant businesses and many key creatives from across the wider screen industry.

Robert Taylor from Kuma Kaaru who opened the event with an inspiring Welcome to Country, and Emma Cresdee from Sign Language Australia, a Deaf-led Auslan interpreting service, for providing Auslan interpretation for the night.