Adelaide Film Festival
Investment Fund
LocationAdelaide, South Australia
Established2003
FounderPremier Mike Rann
Operated byAdelaide Film Festival
Websiteadelaidefilmfestival.org/affif/

The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund was established in 2003 by the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann, to boost the local production of films.

When the American festival director Peter Sellars was director of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts, he commissioned five films. Four of those films won awards, including The Tracker, Beneath Clouds and Walking on Water.[1] That success prompted the State Government to provide the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) with a production investment fund,[2] which the AFF administers. Up to $1,000,000 is made available over a two-year period.[3] The Adelaide Film Festival Board selects projects, based on recommendations from the Festival Director, and the slate of pictures produced premieres at the event.[3][4]

To date, the Investment Fund has invested in seventy-two projects, including features, documentaries, short films and new media projects. These projects have won 70 international and 130 national awards. Adelaide remains one of the few festivals worldwide with an investment fund.[4]

Purpose

The Adelaide Film Festival aims to support the projects of strong creative teams. It uses creative criteria such as bold and innovative storytelling, and also requires projects to contribute culturally and economically to South Australia.[5] These projects will bring development opportunities, branding opportunities, or partnerships with national and international organisations. They should have potential to raise the profile of South Australia.[3]

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a week-long festival of Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund films (from 7 to 13 April 2011). The MoMA week was a salute to the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, "a testament to its vision and success in realising some of the most unique, creative, interesting, challenging and entertaining Australian films of the recent past."[6][7]

The program included Look Both Ways, Ten Canoes, Samson and Delilah, Stunt Love, Boxing Day, Last Ride, My Year Without Sex and Mrs. Carey’s Concert.[6][7]

Hive Production FUND + LAB

In 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV Arts & Entertainment and the Adelaide Film Festival joined forces to create the Hive Production Fund. The inaugural FUND supported the projects The Boy Castaways by Michael Kantor, I Want to Dance Better at Parties by Matthew Bate, and Tender by Lynette Wallworth.

The LAB is run in partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia, ABC Arts and South Australian Film Corporation. A unique workshop environment, it fosters new opportunities for artists working in theatre, art, dance and other non-cinematic fields to collaborate with traditional screen practitioners. The LAB encourages art form cross-pollination – between practitioners, and between processes and creative approaches.[8] The third and final LAB will run during the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival.

Sundance Institute

Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund collaborates with Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program to identify potential opportunities for Australian artists and filmmakers to present new media work at future editions of the Sundance Film Festival.[9][10]

New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a dynamic initiative intended to identify and foster independent artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology.

Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the emerging field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid projects to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances and films. It has a long presentation association of Australian work, including Lynette Wallworth’s Evolution of Fearlessness and Coral: Rekindling Venus; Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man!; and Closer Productions’ My 52 Tuesdays project.

Past projects

2018 2017 2016
―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ――――――
Hotel Mumbai Cargo Ali's Wedding
I Am Mother Sweet Country
The Nightingale
―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ――――――
She Who Must Be Loved After the Apology David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Guilty
―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――― TV SERIES ――――
Lucy and D.i.C. Remembering Agatha David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema
The Art of the Game Oddlands
Demonic Making A Mark
The Woman and the Car Bromley's Suitcase
Davi ―――― TV SERIES ――――
A Stone's Throw F*!#ing Adelaide
―――― IMMERSIVE ―――― ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ――――
Running 62: The Arrival VR Geoff Cobham: Already Elsewhere
The Waiting Room ―――― VIRTUAL REALITY ――――
The Summation of Force VR
2015 2013 2011
―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ――――――
A Month of Sundays[11][12][13] 52 Tuesdays[14] Hail[15][16]
Girl Asleep[17][12][13] The Boy Castaways[18][19] Here I Am[15][20][16]
Spear[17][11][12] Charlie's Country[14][21] Snowtown[15][22][16]
Tracks[20]
―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ――――――
Highly Strung[11][12] All This Mayhem Life In Movement[15][16]
Sam Klemke's Time Machine[11][12] Tender[20][18] Mrs Carey’s Concert[15][22][16]
The Darkside[14] Shut Up Little Man![15][16]
The Tall Man[15][16]
―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――――― SHORT FILMS ――――――
Michelle's Story[23] Muriel Matters! Magic Harvest[16]
Mood Machine I Want to Dance Better at Parties[18][20] The Moment[16]
My Best Friend is Stuck on the Ceiling Welcome to Iron Knob[24] Stunt Love[15]
Trent Parke - The Black Rose Ringbalin: Breaking the Drought The Palace[16]
Upside Down Feeling ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM ―――――― ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM ――――――
What We Know My 52 Tuesdays Danger 5[15][16]
―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ――――
Char Soo Daniel Crooks, Pan No.11 Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight[15][16]
The Way of the Ngangkari[13] Stranded
2009 2007 2005
―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ――――――
Last Ride[25][26] Boxing Day[27][28] Look Both Ways[22][26]
Lucky Country[25] Dr Plonk[27] Ten Canoes[22][26]
My Tehran for Sale[25][26] Lucky Miles[27]
My Year Without Sex[25][26] The Home Song Stories[27][26]
Samson and Delilah[22][25][26]
―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ――――――
A Good Man[25][26] Forbidden Lie$[27] I Told You I Was Ill: Spike Milligan
Kalaupapa – Heaven
Words from the City[27]
―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― ―――――― SHORT FILMS ――――――
Necessary Games Crocodile Dreaming Azadi
Schadenfreude Spike Up Fritz Gets Rich
Salt Sweet and Sour Nascent
The Bully Swing
The Cat Piano[26] What the Future Sounded Like
―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM――――――
Duality of Light[29][30] UsMob.com.au

References

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  2. ^ Senses of Cinema (1 May 2007) More Please: Report on the 3rd Biennial Adelaide Film Festival. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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  7. ^ a b MoMA Adelaide Produces. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  8. ^ Mumbrella (25 February 2011) ABC TV and Adelaide Film Festival partner to create production fund. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  9. ^ Adelaide Film Festival (5 February 2015) SUNDANCE INSTITUTE AND ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL TO COLLABORATE. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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  21. ^ Bulbeck, Pip (17 April 2014). "Cannes: Australia Celebrates Double Feature Selections". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  22. ^ a b c d e Australian Centre for the Moving Image Archived 11 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine (11 December 2014) ACMI announces broadcasting executive and former film festival director Katrina Sedgwick as new Director and CEO. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  23. ^ Kornits, Dov (30 October 2015). "Local Stories Win Audience Awards At Adelaide Film Festival". Film Ink. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  24. ^ Bluebird Productions Archived 11 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Welcome To Iron Knob. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  25. ^ a b c d e f Urban Cinephile (5 February 2009) ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – PREVIEW . Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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  28. ^ Australian Screen Boxing Day (2007). Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  29. ^ Sydney Festival 2010 Archived 11 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Lynette Wallworth. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  30. ^ Forma Duality of Light. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

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