Tasmanian Film Corporation
{{Short description|Short lived government authority}}
The Tasmanian Film Corporation was a Tasmanian statutory corporation founded in 1977{{cite web|title=TASMANIAN FILM CORPORATION|url=http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tasmanian%20Film%20Corporation.htm|website=utas.edu.au|publisher=University of Tasmania|accessdate=4 November 2014}} to replace the Tasmanian Government Department of Film Production. However, following a brief period of success it was privatised by Premier Robin Gray in 1983 and shut down progressively over the following decade.
Films
By far its biggest success was Manganinnie (1980), an AFI Award and AWGIE Award{{cite news|title=Kelso's screenplay wins|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127065069|accessdate=4 November 2014|publisher=The Canberra Times|date=15 August 1981}} winning feature film.{{cite web|title=Manganinnie (1980)|url=https://www.wideangle.org.au/manganinnie-1980|website=wideangle.org.au|publisher=Wide Angle Tasmania|accessdate=4 November 2014}} Other productions included The Willow Bend Mystery, A Fish For All Seasons (1982), a 10-part miniseries for the Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority,{{cite web|title=A very fishy sesquicentenary|url=https://www.tasmanianregions.tas.gov.au/regions/a-very-fishy-sesquicentenary/|website=tasmanianregions.tas.gov.au|publisher=Tas Regions|accessdate=4 November 2014}} Impressions of a Colony (1980) for the National Parks and Wildlife Service,{{cite book|last1=Kearney|first1=Brian|last2=Syron|first2=Briann|title=Kicking down the doors : a history of Australian Indigenous filmmakers from 1968-1993|date=2007|publisher=Lulu Inc|isbn=9781847993649|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKpvmIh6p3QC&q=TASMANIAN+FILM+CORPORATION&pg=PT105|accessdate=4 November 2014}} Save the Lady (1982){{cite web|title=Feature Article - Tasmanian feature films|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/1301.6Feature%20Article112000?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=1301.6&issue=2000&num=&view=|website=abs.gov.au|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|accessdate=4 November 2014}} and Helicopter Tasmania (1982){{cite news|title=Tasmania film|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126914555|accessdate=4 November 2014|publisher=Canberra Times|date=5 April 1982}}
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Category:Defunct government-owned companies of Tasmania
Category:Film organisations in Australia
Category:Film production companies of Australia
Category:Mass media in Tasmania
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