60Seconds

WHAT MAKES WORKING IN AUSTRALIA UNIQUE?

The highly skilled crews, the lifestyle and living environment and Australia’s response to COVID-19 make it a very attractive and secure place to shoot.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ACCESSING AUSTRALIA’S FEDERAL AND STATE SCREEN TAX INCENTIVES?

Having seamlessly accessed the Australian Federal and State screen production tax incentives on film productions in the 2000’s and 2010’s, I find them all-round easy and very positive.

DESCRIBE WORKING WITH AUSTRALIAN CREW IN FIVE WORDS

Creative, nimble, resourceful, resilient and reliant.

WHAT STUDIOS DID YOU WORK ON AND HOW WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE?

We were based at the Adelaide Studios and were able to take advantage of South Australia’s great locations. Having SAFC heads like … CEO Kate Croser with a production background was enormously helpful and we were able to complete the director’s cut in Adelaide before moving to post-production. Despite COVID protocols, we didn’t skip a beat moving into post-production [in Adelaide and then] at Fox Studios in Sydney.

WHERE WERE YOU BASED WHILST YOU WERE IN AUSTRALIA?

In Adelaide, at Adelaide Studios, Coober Pedy and Mount Crawford in South Australia. All the interstate crew loved Adelaide. All the international crew loved Adelaide. There’s a quality that’s really high.

[After the shoot] I was at Spectrum Films, situated on the Fox Studios lot in Sydney, for nearly two months. They had converted a new mix stage into ATMOS.

Editors Note: Read the full story on how 13+ Australian-based VFX, picture post, sound post and music companies collaborated together completing remote post from four Aussie states and in Los Angeles to make this epic film.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT DOING REMOTE POST?

We did remote recording at Trackdown on the Fox Studios lot in Sydney, because my composer stayed in LA. And there’s no reason why you can’t do that. And the PDV Offset [30% rebate from Federal and 10% rebate from SA, NSW and Victoria] works for that. If the director and the editor are in LA, a filmmaker can certainly have the whole sound department here in Australia.