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Kate Croser is an Australian film and television producer and screen executive. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Film Corporation. [1]

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Notable films produced by Croser include romantic comedy Top End Wedding , time travel comedy The Infinite Man and the Iranian co-production My Tehran for Sale . [2] She also produced the television action comedy series Danger 5 . [3]

Awards and recognition

In 2009 Croser won the Inside Film Independent Spirit Award for My Tehran for Sale , [4] and In 2012 won the Best Short Fiction Film award at the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for The Palace . [5]

In February 2020 she was named one of South Australia's Top 50 Most Influential People by the Advertiser. [6]

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