British firm Extraordinary Group and Australian production company Impian Films have team with the goal of building a film studio in Perth, which would become Western Australia's first studio facility.
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The joint venture partners say they hope to get final approvals and open the Perth Film Studio in spring 2016.
Extraordinary, led by CEO Chris Samwells, says it eyes the Perth facility and a studio in Spain as the first two of an envisioned six micro studios around the world. The hope is to build them as environmentally friendly film and media hubs with a small footprint for a total budget of only about $300 million across all six. The facilities are designed to take advantage of production tax credits in their respective locations.
By offering studio space along with hotels and film services to ensure other revenue streams, the partners hope to make the venues to pay off financially even when no films are in production. And the studio planners hope to make the facilities part of the broader local community - in the case of Perth by building next to Murdoch University and its film school.
The Perth facility design plans include three studios (one that is 50x50 meters big and 22 meters high, and two measuring 25x25x18 meters), office space, warehouses and room for set construction.
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