Adams Packer Film Productions
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Adams Packer Film Productions Pty Ltd. was a short lived film production company. It was owned by Phillip Adams and Kerry Packer.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/the-king-and-his-queen/story-e6frg7fx-1226044563491 Phillip Adams, "The king and his queen", The Australian 30 April 2011] accessed 4 December 2012
Their first film was We of the Never Never.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125652645 |title=Film shooting |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=55 |issue=16,577 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=14 February 1981 |accessdate=2 November 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126833253 |title='WE OF THE NEVER NEVER' TO DELIGHT A NEW GENERATION 'Elsey' Homestead building again |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=55 |issue=16,634 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=12 April 1981 |accessdate=2 November 2017 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The company joined the film group Bancour.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126830081 |title=Large firms in film group |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=55 |issue=16,618 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=27 March 1981 |accessdate=2 November 2017 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Packer withdrew from film production afterwards. Filmink later wrote this was "a shame because I feel he had the courage, cash and gambler’s instinct to make a good film mogul."{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/ten-billionaires-stung-hollywood/|title=Ten Billionaires Who Were Stung by Hollywood|date=March 10, 2020}}
Filmography
- A Personal History of the Australian Surf (1981)
- Lonely Hearts (1982){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116470176 |title=AFI best-film award nominees |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=57 |issue=17,154 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=15 September 1982 |accessdate=2 November 2017 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- We of the Never Never (1983)
- Fighting Back (1982){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52620054 |title=Fighting for realism |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=49 |issue=32 |location=Australia |date=27 January 1982 |accessdate=2 November 2017 |page=108 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Kitty and the Bagman (1983)
- Abra Cadabra (1983)
References
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External links
- [http://aso.gov.au/titles/companies/Adams+Packer+Film+Productions/ Adams Packer] at Australian Screen Online
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