Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund

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]

  1. ^ The Age (28 November 2006) Peter Sellars' legacy finally bears fruit
  2. ^ Senses of Cinema (1 May 2007) More Please: Report on the 3rd Biennial Adelaide Film Festival. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ^ a b Adelaide Film Festival Archived 11 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, About. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. ^ a b Boland, Michaela (27 February 2009). "Adelaide festival accents Australia". Variety. Retrieved 12 February 2015.