57 Films kicks goals with deep local and global film links from its base at Adelaide Studios in Glenside

Among 57 Films' work: This is Port Adelaide documentary (left); actor Aaron Pedersen and executive producer Paul Ryan on the set of Barfuss durch Australian (top right); and the montage for 30th anniversary Shandong-South Australia gala dinner.
Images courtesy 57 Films and Sam Oster of Silvertracer

Adelaide-based production company 57 Films’ documentary celebrating the 2020 150th anniversary of South Australia’s oldest professional football club, Port Adelaide, was part of its work often linking its home state with the wider globe.

Also in 2020, 57 Films completed Barfuss durch Australian (Barfoot through Australia)  with Berlin-based production company Schiwago Films. It set up a four-week shoot, supported by the South Australian Film Corporation, for the German television movie across South Australia locations including the Riverland, Barossa Valley and Flinders Ranges. 57 Films’ founder Paul Ryan was executive producer.

In 2015, 57 Films partnered with QTV (Qingdao Television), China province Shandong’s largest broadcasting network and to produce the Chef Exchange series. Since then, 57 Films worked on a range of creative projects in China. It won a Qingdao municipal government tended to create a film showcasing Qingdao to the world.

57 Films, with Port Adelaide Football Club produced a 24-part TV series a highlights package of each week’s Australian Football League (AFL) games while also following an aspiring Chinese player Chen Shaoliang with Port Adelaide, airing to a national Chinese audience of more than 3.5 million viewers.

57 Films was commissioned for the visual montage that opened the 30th anniversary gala dinner in Shandong, celebrating the sister-state relationship between the province and South Australia.

Providing a full production service, from film to animation, sound design to script development, 57 Films expanded its presence in the complex around the Adelaide Studios in Glenside, and continued to be involved with a extensive variety of Adelaide film projects.

Directed by Nicole Miller, theThis is Port Adelaide documentary, released in 2021, was described as an “exploration of identity, belonging and passion told through the history of a working-class Australian Rules Football Club and the people at its heart”.