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Total Film: the Beginnings of the SAFC

June – July
October 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of one the great milestones in the modern Australian feature film industry: the establishment of the South Australian Film Corporation. The first part of our 40th anniversary retrospective began in 2012 with a look at the SAFC’s classics and milestones of the late 1970s. Part Two looks at SAFC in the 1980s and until 1994; a much less remembered and more difficult period for the Corporation, just as it was for Australian cinema generally. After Breaker Morant, the gloss began to rub off, as our cinema moved from the halcyon days of the 1970s renaissance into the hard realities of sustaining an industry through the 1980s. Of the cinema features greenlit some even then seemed to be bad calls. Yet in hindsight, some are underrated; especially a number of SAFC feature projects that focused on the teen and youth market (1982’s Freedom, 1985’s Playing Beatie Bow, and 1990’s Struck by Lightning).

Total Film is presented with thanks to the South Australian Film Corporation. Selected titles are courtesy the NFSA’s Kodak/Atlab and Deluxe/Kodak Project collections.

For more information on this season, see the NFSA blog.

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