Apr 18, 2025 Last Updated 2:08 AM, Jun 8, 2024

Producers & Distributors of High Quality Australian Film and Television

We've got quality not quantity. We break the ice for others to follow.

On this site you will find details of our past film production, direct sales info, 

who we are, what we've got in development plus bits about our heros.

AFTER 40 YEARS -  OVERNIGHT SUCCESS


Indie U.S. distributor Muscle Distribution has picked up rights to our legendary left field feature GOING DOWN. The new 4K restoration launches theatrically in New York May 9, with other cities to follow.

After forty years, an email out of the blue has GOING DOWN finding a new audience. The email was from U.S. indie film distributor Muscle Distribution whose CEO Liz Purchell had found a VHS copy of the film in the remainders bin of a New York video shop. Fuzzy and faded as it was she fell in love with it. She really understood the picture. She got that it’s a movie for and about young women. Her company wanted distribution rights and they wanted to start with cinemas.

As luck would have it, at the same time, a couple of Australian industry angels were in the process of restoring the film to its former glory. Josh Pomeranz and his team at Spectrum Films and Peter Richards from The Grainery had pitched in their skills and services to bring the film back to life. Both liked the movie and remembered it fondly from its original local release.

Muscle Distribution CEO Purchell says she thinks the movie will resonate with young American audiences, “the relationships between the four girls and their concerns about life are universal”. Preview response has been strong and bookings from other U.S. cities are coming in. The film, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, has never had a U.S. release. Details as we get closer to May 9.

A Smart St. Taster

Here's a taster of a few of the films we have on DVD.  They're high quality mainly Australian and hard to find.   They're all available from our catalogue

 

 

NINGLA-ANA poster

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This unique image is the poster from our succesful national theatre release of NINGLA-ANA the Aboriginal tent embassy feature documantary.  It is an iconic picture taken by photographer Noel Hazard who had driven the four boys down to Canberra on the night of January 26th 1972.  Noel is one fo the unsung heroes of Australian dissent.  He was the staff photographger for the Communist Party of Ajustralia's Sydney newspaper TRIBUNE.  He covered every protest, Union meeting, demo, theatre production at New Theatre for more than 40 years.  His unique archive of photographs are held in the State Library of NSW.  

The image was taken just minutes after the beach umbrella had been plunged into the lawn opposite Parliament House and marked the beginniing of what became the most high profile and effectively protest in the struggle for social justive by First Nations Australian

The poster is printed on heavy high quality paper and is standard poster size 700 x 1000mm.

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$25.00

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ARCHIVE SALES

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For the last 45 years we've shot films all round the world on a wide variety of subjects. From sport to politics and art we have a unique library of moving and still images. We make these available to filmmakers and private individuals for use in other films or just to own personally.  In particular our extraordinary range of surveillance films and photographs are a unique resource.

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For HD movies or hand printed stills on acid free paper contact us: 
enquiries@smartstreetfilms.com.au 

In Development

Looted treasure, IRA terror, Dandies, Winston Churchill, Zombies, show biz scoundrels and aunt Mabel's millions.  

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LOOTED
We've got a wide ranging slate in development.READ MORE

Heroes

    Terry Southern
                      writer

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    The Hippest Guy On The Planet

Dr. Strangelove, Candy, Magic Christian, Easyrider you name it Terry Southern had a profound influence on American cinema and our understanding of the absurdity of life.

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