Screen Australia is selling the former Film Australia studio and office facilities in Lindfield on Sydney.s upper north shore.
Recently rezoned for residential use, the property is expected to attract significant market interest, the agency says.
The Eton Road property was a purpose-built film and television facility used by Film Australia as well as independent production and film service companies, for more than 30 years.
Many Australian filmmakers started or advanced their careers at the Lindfield site during the production of thousands of titles, mostly documentaries, that gave audiences snapshots of life in Australia. Film Australia emerged in 1973 from the Commonwealth Film Unit, which in turn evolved from the Australian National Film Board, established in 1945 to produce documentary films.
One of Film Australia.s first successes was writer-director David Haythornwaite's 1974 short film A Steam Train Passes.. One of its last productions was. Peter Butt's Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?...
Recently rezoned for residential use, the property is expected to attract significant market interest, the agency says.
The Eton Road property was a purpose-built film and television facility used by Film Australia as well as independent production and film service companies, for more than 30 years.
Many Australian filmmakers started or advanced their careers at the Lindfield site during the production of thousands of titles, mostly documentaries, that gave audiences snapshots of life in Australia. Film Australia emerged in 1973 from the Commonwealth Film Unit, which in turn evolved from the Australian National Film Board, established in 1945 to produce documentary films.
One of Film Australia.s first successes was writer-director David Haythornwaite's 1974 short film A Steam Train Passes.. One of its last productions was. Peter Butt's Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?...
- 5/27/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Encore visited the set of the ABC espionage drama-documentary I Spry. Director Peter Butt, producer Anna Grieve, wardrobe designer Beverley Freeman and Dop Calvin Gardiner spoke to Aravind Balasubramaniam about the research that went into recreating the feel of the 1950s, and the importance of revisiting those shadowy parts of the country’s history that have got lost over time.
Historian and award-winning filmmaker Peter Butt’s latest production for the ABC, I Spry, is the dramatised documentary on perhaps Australia’s greatest spy Sir Charles Chambers Fowell Spry and his time in office. Spry was appointed by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, at the heat of the Cold War in the 1950s, as director-general of the Asio [Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation]. He is played by stage and film actor Tony Llewellyn-Jones.
Peter Butt, who has familiarised himself well with the place of espionage and intelligence in Australian history has also produced other documentaries on the subject such as Lies,...
Historian and award-winning filmmaker Peter Butt’s latest production for the ABC, I Spry, is the dramatised documentary on perhaps Australia’s greatest spy Sir Charles Chambers Fowell Spry and his time in office. Spry was appointed by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, at the heat of the Cold War in the 1950s, as director-general of the Asio [Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation]. He is played by stage and film actor Tony Llewellyn-Jones.
Peter Butt, who has familiarised himself well with the place of espionage and intelligence in Australian history has also produced other documentaries on the subject such as Lies,...
- 11/1/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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