The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) has launched a new Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group, bringing together six screen industry practitioners to advise on best practice approaches to diversity, equity, access, and cultural safety across the state’s screen sector.
The inaugural members are Mount Lofty Studios founder Yogi Devgan; documentary producer and director Katrina Lucas; Rising Sun Pictures vice president of production Kacy McDonald; filmmaker and Access2Arts communications professional Marcus McKenzie; multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer Yasemin Sabuncu; and games programmer and Towerpoint Games co-founder Emma Waters.
The group will advise SAFC leadership on programs and initiatives, governance, legal and regulatory considerations, and sector development, drawing on members’ lived experience and industry expertise.
The launch is anchored in the SAFC’s Strategic Plan 2025–2028, launched in October last year, which identifies diversity and inclusion as a core organisational value, setting out the achievement of targets outlined in the organisation’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2022-2032 as a key measure of success.
By June 2032, the corporation aims to have 50 per cent female, 25 per cent culturally and linguistically diverse, 10 per cent deaf or disabled, 10 per cent regional or remote, eight per cent LGBTQIA+, and five per cent First Nations credited writers, directors, and producers attached to projects it supports for production and development funding.
Targets for South Australian crew on SAFC-funded productions include 50 per cent female, 15 per cent CALD, 14 per cent LGBTQIA+, 10 per cent regional or remote, eight per cent deaf or disabled, and five per cent First Nations representation.
The Strategic Plan notes that social inclusion and economic success “go hand in hand”, with Diversity and Inclusion embedded in every SAFC process, program, and decision.