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The Queensland Film Corporation (QFC) was a government-funded film production company that existed in the state of
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, Australia, in the 1980s.


History

The Queensland Film Corporation was established by the ''Queensland Film Industry Development Act 1977'' and funded by the
Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended f ...
Its original brief was not to produce films but to encourage the development of the film industry in Queensland. At one stage it was run by Allan Callaghan, former press officer to
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen (13 January 191123 April 2005), known as Joh Bjelke-Petersen, was a conservative Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during ...
who was sent to gaol for misappropriating government funds. The organisation was eventually wound up in October 1987, having spent $5.4 million on various projects. The Queensland government later formed Film Queensland and the Pacific Film and TV Corporation.


Current equivalent

the funding body is
Screen Queensland Screen or Screens may refer to: Arts * Screen printing (also called ''silkscreening''), a method of printing * Big screen, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry * Split screen (filmmaking), a film composition paradigm in which m ...
, which owns the
Screen Queensland Studios Screen Queensland Studios are a set of film studios located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They are the second of two major studio lots in Queensland, the other being Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast. Description Screen Queens ...
.


Selected films

*'' Final Cut'' (1980) *'' Touch and Go'' (1980) *'' The Little Feller'' (1982) *'' Buddies'' (1983) *'' The Settlement'' (1984) *'' The Naked Country'' (1985) *'' Frenchman's Farm'' (1987) *''
Travelling North ''Travelling North'' is a 1987 Australian film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, and Henri Szeps. Based on an original 1979 play of the same name by David Williamson, it is one of Williamson's favou ...
'' (1987) *'' Fields of Fire'' (1987) (miniseries)


See also

* List of films shot in Queensland


References


External links


Queensland Film Corporation
at
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