Overview of the film industry in Western Australia
The film industry in Western Australia encompasses a wide range of productions and a wide range of filmmakers.
Funding can be sourced from ScreenWest,[1] Screen Australia,[2] FTI,[3] television broadcasters and private investors.
Filmmakers and productions can be recognised at the West Australian Screen Awards.[4]
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Western Australia's capital, Perth, from Kings Park
Feature films
Independent feature films
Feature films made outside of the government funding bodies include:
- The Actress (2005)
- Aussie Park Boyz (2004)
- Aussie Park Boyz: The Next Chapter (2011)
- The Bouncer (2006)
- Broken (2016)
- Broken Contract (2015)
- The Burning Kiss (2017)
- Cherubhead (2021)
- The Course (2007)
- Crush (2009)
- Death Bet (2008)
- The Director's Cut (2009)
- Emu War: A Subtle Examination of the Sheer Caucasity of Colonialism (2023)
- Everybody Gets Stabbed (2020)
- Esoterica (2010)
- Foreshadow (2013)
- I Am Bish (2009)
- Indefinite (2015)
- Infected Paradise (2014)
- Little Sparrows (2010)
- Lurking Woods (2015)
- Needle (2010)
- No Through Road (2008)
- Pinch (2015)
- Plum Role (2007)
- Pulse (2016)
- Raven's Cabin (2012)
- The Sculptor (2009)
- Sororal (2014)
- The Toll (2010)
- Twisted Minds (2014)
- The Wheelchair Warriors (1998)
- White December (2016)
Television movies
Feature documentaries
- Frackman (2015)
- Fridey at the Hydey (2013)
- Hotel Coolgardie (2016)
- Hunter: For the Record (2012)
- Meal Tickets (2016)
- It's Not Just Me (2017)[5]
- Parkerville Amphitheatre: Sets, Bugs and Rock n Roll (2015)
- Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015)
- Three Hams in a Can (2009)
Television documentaries
- Bom Bali (2006)
- Chateau Chunder: A Wine Revolution (2012)
- Child Soldiers (2002)
- Gallipoli Submarine (2008)
- The Hunt for HMAS Sydney (2008)
- Jandamarra's War (2011)
- Prison Songs (2015)
- The Secret History of Eurovision (2011)
- Singapore 1942 End of Empire (2012)
- Skippy: Australia's First Superstar (2009)
- Surviving Mumbai (2009)
- Wadjemup: Black Prison White Playground (2014)
- The War on Microbes (2012)
Television and web series
Short films
Filmmakers
Past and present Western Australian writers, producers and directors include:
Directors of photography
- Denson Baker (ACS)
- Ian Batt
- Laetitia Belen
- Ben Berkhout
- Dion Borrett
- A.J. Coultier
- Joel Crane
- Ivan Davidov
- George Davis
- Torstein Dyrting (ACS)
- Jim Frater
- Rusty Geller
- Stewart Hadfield
- Ulrich Krafzik (ACS)
- David Le May (ACS)
- Richard Malins (ACS)
- Michael McDermott (ACS)
- Andrew McLeod
- Alex McPhee (ACS)
- Ross Metcalf
- Lewis Potts
- David Vincent Smith
- Jason Thomas
- Michael Titter
- Antony Webb
- Sam Winzar
- Mark Zagar (ACS)
Other industry practitioners
- Vikki Barr (ScreenWest)
- Tony Bective (Luna Cinemas)
- Nick Bertke (Electronic musician, visual effects)
- Rikki Lea Bestall (ScreenWest)
- Paul Bodlovich (FTI)
- Ian Booth (ScreenWest)
- Andre Chang-Fane (Visual effects)
- Michael Cunningham
- Merlin Eden (Film editor)
- Rusty Geller (Steadicam operator)
- Ash Gibson Greig (Composer)
- James Helm (Actor)
- Ryan Hodgson (ScreenWest)
- Travis Johnson (Film Critic, Filmink, The West Australian, X-Press Magazine)
- George Karpathakis (ECU)
- Jaemie Manners CSI (Colourist)
- Edward McQueen-Mason (Film editor)
- Annie Murtagh-Monks (Casting director, FTI)
- Mark Naglazas (Film critic, The West Australian)
- Andy Parnell (Sound recordist)
- Herbert Pinter (Production designer)
- Peter Pritchard (Film editor)
- Ali Roberts (Acting coach)
- Jack Sargeant (Revelation)
- Helen Shervington (CinefestOZ)
- Lawrie Silvestrin (Film editor)
- Keith Smith (ECU, Revel-8)
- Richard Sowada (Revelation)
- Stephen Sunderland (Film critic)
- Ingrid van den Berghe (Luna Cinemas)
- Robert Woods (Visual effects)
Film schools
See also
References
External links
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