The Savage Garden selected for staged script reading at Sydney Theatre in April   -    March, 2011

Dungog Film Festival's In The Raw script development programme will host a staged reading of script with actors including Susie Porter, Rachael Blake, Tony Martin.

More information and tickets available from Dungog Film Festival's In The Raw website

Read the press at Empire Magazine

Nia's Melancholy wins two more prizes!   -    March, 2011

Nia's Melancholy has won two more prizes; the Best Film Industry Award and the Indigenous Award at West End Film Festival in Brisbane. Writer & Director S.F. Tusa and Producer Andrew Arbuthnot attended the festival to recieve the awards.
Read the press statements at West End Film Festival... And Screen Queensland

The Savage Garden trailer online!      

The Savage Garden trailer was filmed on the Gold Coast and in Northern NSW.

The Savage Garden Trailer from LaLa Pictures Pty Ltd

Black Buster new project development confirmed    -    2011

Black Buster a short comedy written by S. F. Tusa, Writer/ Director of Nia's Melancholy, has been selected for the latest round of the Screen Australia Indigenous Branch short drama development funding initiative FlashBlack which involves intensive writer and director workshops to take place in April and May 2011.

Night Flying exclusive worldwide book adaptation rights confirmed    -    2010

Andrew Arbuthnot & S. F. Tusa have secured the exclusive option rights to the multi-award winning young adult novel Night Flying by American author Rita Murphy. The book has been widely published in numerous countries and languages around the world. The script is in early development stage.

Nia's Melancholy it's a wrap!   -    2008

Nia's Melancholy was filmed in Far North Queensland in late 2008 and developed and financed through the New Black Initiative of Screen Australia Indigenous Branch, ABC and Screen Queensland.