The Tasmanian Film Corporation was a Tasmanian
statutory corporation founded 1977
to replace the Tasmanian Government Department of Film Production.
Films
By far its biggest success was
Manganinnie
''Manganinnie'' is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a lost white girl named Joanna. Based on Beth Roberts' novel of the same nam ...
, an
AFI Award and
AWGIE Award
The AWGIE Awards is an annual awards ceremony conducted by the Australian Writers' Guild, for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing. The awards began in 1967.
The awards are judged by over 50 writers, most of whom are previou ...
winning feature film. Other productions included A Fish For All Seasons (1982), a 10-part miniseries for the Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority, Impressions of a Colony (1980) for the National Parks and Wildlife Service,
Save the Lady (1982) and Helicopter Tasmania (1982)
however following a brief period of success it was privatised by
Premier Gray in 1983 and shut down progressively over the following decade.
References
Former government-owned companies of Tasmania
Mass media in Tasmania
Film organisations in Australia
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