Film Australia

Film Australia is one of the nation's largest producers of television documentaries and educational programs. Though an integral part of the Australian Government's film program, Film Australia is neither a funding agency nor broadcaster. It is an Australian Government-owned production and distribution company - an integrated business which perform... s a community service. Its mission is the creation of an audio-visual record of Australian life, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs which deal with matters of national interest to Australia or illustrate and interpret aspects of Australian life. Film Australia receives finance from the Australian Government under a contract requiring the company to devise, produce and distribute National Interest Program productions. It acts as the executive producer of such programs, drawing the creative and technical talent needed to produce them from Australia's independent documentary production industry. Film Australia supports the Australian documentary sector not only by the commissioning of National Interest Program production, but through the provision of services and facilities. It offers a world-wide distribution service for both National Interest Program and independently produced documentaries, marketing them to broadcasters in Australia and overseas and to schools, universities and community groups throughout Australia. Film Australia's Library houses a unique collection of titles spanning more than a century of Australia's history and licenses them, and the valuable archival materials they contain, to the production industry. The company occupies a purpose-built film and television production facility at Lindfield in Sydney. Film Australia Studios provides screening venues, a sound stage, sound post-production facilities, a film laboratory, production offices, editing and transfer suites used not only by many Film Australia and low-budget independent film and television productions, but by long-term tenants who operate production ...Read More