❓ The WA government supports regional areas through investment in the film industry, facilitated by ScreenWest and royalties for regions funding. Several films are highlighted as examples of successful productions in WA.
AnsweredQoN 886Legislative Assembly
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FILM PRODUCTIONS — WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
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886. Dr G.G. JACOBS to the Minister for
Culture and the Arts:
I was pleased to hear about a new
Australian movie set to commence filming in Pemberton. Can the minister please
advise the house how the WA government is supporting our regions through
investment in the film industry?
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886. Dr G.G. JACOBS to the Minister for
Culture and the Arts:
I was pleased to hear about a new
Australian movie set to commence filming in Pemberton. Can the minister please
advise the house how the WA government is supporting our regions through
investment in the film industry?
AnswerView source ↗
Certainly; I am very happy to do so.
I thank the member for the question. I preface my comments by observing that
the screen industry has become a very active and significant aspect of
creativity and arts in Western Australia. Various locations around the state in
regional areas and parts of the Perth metropolitan area have become very sought
after as destinations for feature film locations. Largely with the efforts of
the state screen agency, ScreenWest, and funding contributions of some particular
productions from royalties for regions, we are seeing increasing interest in
films being made in Western Australia. For example, the film Looking for Grace, which premiered at
the Venice Film Festival and was filmed in Perth and the wheatbelt, will be screened
in cinemas in 2016. Blue Dog has
recently finished shooting in the Pilbara and is currently in the
post-production phase. The adaptation of Tim Winton's Breath , which is produced by and stars
the Australian–Hollywood star Simon Baker, is due to start filming in
Denmark and around the great southern early in the new year. This film will
showcase the natural beauty of our state when it is finally presented to what I
am sure will be a global audience.
Filming will commence in Pemberton next Monday, 26 October on
the production that was originally announced late last year of the film
adaptation of Jasper Jones . This film
is an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Western Australian author Craig
Silvey and of course is about a coming-of-age story set in rural Western Australia
in the 1960s about teenagers Charlie Bucktin and the town outcast Jasper Jones
who become entangled in a murder mystery. It was a stage production in Perth
only last year, I think, which was outstanding, and I am sure the film production
will be as well. This production will star the Academy Award nominee Toni Collette
and acting legend Hugo Weaving. It will be directed by the award-winning
Indigenous Australian Rachel Perkins, who has previously directed the wonderful
film version of Bran Nue Dae .
These films provide a range of benefits to the state,
including promoting Western Australia and its fantastic natural environment to
audiences around the world as well as creating local jobs for cast and crew.
They also result in expenditure in Western Australia, which is far in excess—in
fact, about four times—of the contribution made by ScreenWest and by
the public of Western Australia through ScreenWest, and, as I said, in some
cases through the royalties for regions program. It is wonderful to see the
interest in the screen industry in Western Australia. I congratulate ScreenWest
on the role that it is playing and look forward to Jasper Jones being filmed, starting next week in Pemberton, and
being on Western Australian screens hopefully next year.
I thank the member for the question. I preface my comments by observing that
the screen industry has become a very active and significant aspect of
creativity and arts in Western Australia. Various locations around the state in
regional areas and parts of the Perth metropolitan area have become very sought
after as destinations for feature film locations. Largely with the efforts of
the state screen agency, ScreenWest, and funding contributions of some particular
productions from royalties for regions, we are seeing increasing interest in
films being made in Western Australia. For example, the film Looking for Grace, which premiered at
the Venice Film Festival and was filmed in Perth and the wheatbelt, will be screened
in cinemas in 2016. Blue Dog has
recently finished shooting in the Pilbara and is currently in the
post-production phase. The adaptation of Tim Winton's Breath , which is produced by and stars
the Australian–Hollywood star Simon Baker, is due to start filming in
Denmark and around the great southern early in the new year. This film will
showcase the natural beauty of our state when it is finally presented to what I
am sure will be a global audience.
Filming will commence in Pemberton next Monday, 26 October on
the production that was originally announced late last year of the film
adaptation of Jasper Jones . This film
is an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Western Australian author Craig
Silvey and of course is about a coming-of-age story set in rural Western Australia
in the 1960s about teenagers Charlie Bucktin and the town outcast Jasper Jones
who become entangled in a murder mystery. It was a stage production in Perth
only last year, I think, which was outstanding, and I am sure the film production
will be as well. This production will star the Academy Award nominee Toni Collette
and acting legend Hugo Weaving. It will be directed by the award-winning
Indigenous Australian Rachel Perkins, who has previously directed the wonderful
film version of Bran Nue Dae .
These films provide a range of benefits to the state,
including promoting Western Australia and its fantastic natural environment to
audiences around the world as well as creating local jobs for cast and crew.
They also result in expenditure in Western Australia, which is far in excess—in
fact, about four times—of the contribution made by ScreenWest and by
the public of Western Australia through ScreenWest, and, as I said, in some
cases through the royalties for regions program. It is wonderful to see the
interest in the screen industry in Western Australia. I congratulate ScreenWest
on the role that it is playing and look forward to Jasper Jones being filmed, starting next week in Pemberton, and
being on Western Australian screens hopefully next year.
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