List of films shot in Adelaide

This is a list of films shot in Adelaide or in the state of South Australia.

Films

Film	Year	References
100 Bloody Acres	2012	[1]
Algie's Romance	1918
Australian Rules	2002	[2]
The Babadook	2014	[3]
Bad Boy Bubby	1993	[4]
Beautiful	2009
Bitter Springs	1950
The Boys Are Back	2009	[5]
Centrespread	1981
Closed for Winter	2009	[3]
Cut	2000
Dawn!	1979
Deck Dogz	2005
The Dreaming	1988	[6]
Emotion Is Dead	2023	[7]
Escape from Pretoria	2019
Fair Game	1986	[6]
Family Demons	2009
Fever	1988
The Fourth Wish	1976
Freedom	1982
Gallipoli	1981
Girl Asleep	2015
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger	2008
Hotel Mumbai	2018
Human Touch	2004
I Am Mother	2019
In a Savage Land	1999
Kangaroo	1952
Kangaroo Island	2024
The Plumber	1979
Kiss or Kill	1997
The Last Wave	1977
Like Minds	2006	[6]
Look Both Ways	2005
Love Story 2050	2008
Money Movers	1978
Monolith	2022
Mortal Kombat	2021
Opal Dream	2005	[8]
Oranges and Sunshine	2010	[9]
Parklands	1996
Picnic at Hanging Rock	1975
Playing Beatie Bow	1986	[3]
Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague	1917
Return Home	1990
Road Train	2010
Robbery Under Arms	1985
The Rover	2014
The Royal Hotel	2023	[10]
Sample People	2000
Sebastian and the Sparrow	1988
Selkie	2000
The Sentimental Bloke	1919
Shine	1996	[11]
Snowtown	2011
Spank!	1999
Storm Boy	2019
Struck by Lightning	1990
The Survivor	1981	[12]
Talk to Me	2022
Weekend of Shadows	1978
You'll Never Find Me	2023

See also

• Australian Film Commission
• Cinema of Australia
• Film Australia
• Screen Australia
• South Australian Film Corporation
• World cinema
• List of Australian films
• List of films set in Australia
• List of films shot in Darwin
• List of films shot in Melbourne
• List of films shot in Queensland
• List of films shot in Sydney
• List of films shot in Tasmania
• List of films shot in Western Australia

References

1. Foutch, Haleigh (1 July 2013). "Colin and Cameron Cairnes Talk 100 BLOODY ACRES, the Lengthy Development Process, and More". Collider. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
2. South Australia's Movie Map (single sheet printed both sides; folded map fashion). South Australian Film Corporation, South Australian Tourist Commission. c. 2003.
3. "Five Filming Locations In Adelaide's Backyard". Adelaide Film Festival. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
4. Aveyard, Karina; Moran, Albert; Vieth, Errol (26 December 2017). Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 37. ISBN   978-1-5381-1127-7.
5. Stadler, Jane; Mitchell, Peta; Carleton, Stephen (21 December 2015). Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives. Indiana University Press. p. 30. ISBN   978-0-253-01849-6.
6. Shelley, Peter (18 September 2012). Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010. McFarland. p. 99, 118 and 205. ISBN   978-0-7864-8993-0.
7. Williams, Pete (1 July 2024). "Emotion is Dead May Be the Most South Australian Movie Ever Made". Broadsheet (Interview). Interviewed by Watts, Tim. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
8. Opal Dream IMDb Filming locations
9. Oranges and Sunshine IMDb Filming locations
10. Kelly, Vivienne (10 August 2022). "'The Royal Hotel' Starts Filming in South Australia". Variety Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
11. "Five Films To Watch That Were Shot In South Australia". Adelaide Film Festival. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
12. "The forgotten '80's straight-to-video movie filmed in Adelaide". ABC Adelaide. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

Further reading

• Adamson, Judith. A Film Australia miscellany. Lindfield, N.S.W. : Film Australia, 1991.
• Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Dawson, Jonathan, and Bruce Molloy, eds. Queensland Images in Film and Television. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
• Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka, eds. The Screening of Australia, Volume 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry. Sydney: Currency Press, 1987.
• — — — . The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988.
• Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985.
• Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Film: 1978 – 1994. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN   0-19-553777-7
• Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN   0-19-550784-3
• McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN   0-19-553797-1
• Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia : government film since 1945. Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. ISBN   0-86819-292-9.
• Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN   0-8108-5459-7
• O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
• Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1926. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1970.
• — — — . History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981.
• Ryan, Mark, David (2009),'Whither Culture? Australian Horror Films and the Limitations of Cultural Policy', Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 133, pp. 43–55.
• Stratton, David. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry. Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1990. 465p. ISBN   0-7329-0250-9
• Verhoeven, Deb. Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. ISBN   0-522-85239-4
• — — — ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. ISBN   1-876310-00-6

External links

• South Australia Film Corporation
• australianscreen
• Australian Film, Television and Radio School
• Australian Government site on Film in Australia
• Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Victoria)
• Screen Australia
• Filmwest (Western Australia)
• Screen NSW (New South Wales)