The reel south: Adelaide and Metro
»»NICHOLAS GODFREY
Contributor, Metro (2011–present)
The past achievements of the South Australian film industry have long burdened, and threatened to occlude, its present. Writing in Metro in 2006 of 1970s premier Don Dunstan’s ‘Medici-like inspiration’ in establishing the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Russell Porter mused that, ‘we didn’t realize it at the time, but the people drawn to the SAFC in the mid-seventies were to become among the most influential in the following decades of the Australian film and
