Kath Shelper

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Kath Shelper is an Australian film producer, known for Samson and Delilah . Her production company is called Scarlett Pictures.

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Career

Shelper's production credits include a number of short films and telemovies, including Confessions of a Headhunter, Plains Empty, Bush Mechanics , Above The Dust Level, and Green Bush. [1]

Her first feature film, Samson and Delilah , was directed and filmed by Warwick Thornton, [2] [3] and she produced Beck Cole's first feature film, Here I Am in 2011. [4]

In 2015, Shelper produced the film Ruben Guthrie , and between 2014 and 2020 produced many episodes of the TV comedy series, Black Comedy . [1] [5]

Shelper produced two feature films that were released in 2023, both shot in South Australia - Warwick Thornton's The New Boy and Kitty Green's The Royal Hotel.

Production companies

She was a founding member of the film production company Film Depot along with fellow producers Louise Smith and Matthew Dabner[ citation needed ], but since 1998 has worked out of her own production company, Scarlett Pictures. [6]

Accolades

She was the recipient of the 2005 Inside Film Rising Talent Award. [2] [6]

Her first feature film, Samson and Delilah directed and filmed by Warwick Thornton, won the Camera d'Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 [3] and the Showtime Inside Film Award for Best Feature as well as the AFI Award for Best Film in 2009. [2] Her second feature film with Warwick Thornton, The New Boy, also premiered in Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2023.

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Kath Shelper at IMDb
  2. 1 2 3 "Inside Film Awards call for emerging talent". IF Magazine. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. 1 2 Millar, Lisa (25 May 2009). "Aboriginal film maker honoured at Cannes [transcript)". The World Today (ABC Local Radio). Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Here I Am (2011): Principal credits". Australian Screen . National Film and Sound Archive of Australia . Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "AFTRS & SAFC launch Talent Camp SA". South Australian Film Corporation . 31 July 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Scarlett Pictures, Samson and Delilah material". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Retrieved 23 November 2021. [


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