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
Former ABC2 controller Stuart Menzies is departing the ABC on August 29 after 10 years with the public broadcaster.
Menzies has been acting head of TV content and creative development for the past nine months after the controller position was abolished in a restructure by Richard Finlayson, Director of ABC TV.
Adrian Swift, the former director of development and digital at the Nine Network, has been appointed head of TV content and creative development.
.Ten years working with the best creative minds in the country to bring both entertaining and important stories to the national audience has simply been a privilege,. Menzies said.
.Anniversaries such as this also make you question the best way to spend the next ten years and for me this means seeking new creative challenges outside ABC TV..
Finlayson said: .Stuart is one of the television industry.s most experienced and respected executives and has made an outstanding contribution to the ABC.
Menzies has been acting head of TV content and creative development for the past nine months after the controller position was abolished in a restructure by Richard Finlayson, Director of ABC TV.
Adrian Swift, the former director of development and digital at the Nine Network, has been appointed head of TV content and creative development.
.Ten years working with the best creative minds in the country to bring both entertaining and important stories to the national audience has simply been a privilege,. Menzies said.
.Anniversaries such as this also make you question the best way to spend the next ten years and for me this means seeking new creative challenges outside ABC TV..
Finlayson said: .Stuart is one of the television industry.s most experienced and respected executives and has made an outstanding contribution to the ABC.
- 8/15/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
From the team that made The Prime Minister is Missing and Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? comes I, Spry -- a new drama with an entertaining dash of Cold War intrigue and drama.
The documentary traces the history of enigmatic head of the Australian Security and Intelligence Office (Asio), Charles Spry.
Appointed head of the organisation in 1954, Spry was solely responsible for the safety of Vladmir Petrov, third secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, who defected to Australia in 1954 in a flurry of controversy.
Spry authorised transfers of state funds to secure the defection of the secretary and organised the... More >>...
The documentary traces the history of enigmatic head of the Australian Security and Intelligence Office (Asio), Charles Spry.
Appointed head of the organisation in 1954, Spry was solely responsible for the safety of Vladmir Petrov, third secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, who defected to Australia in 1954 in a flurry of controversy.
Spry authorised transfers of state funds to secure the defection of the secretary and organised the... More >>...
- 10/18/2010
- by Peter Allott
- TV.com
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