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Rebecca Summerton
Rebecca "Bec" Summerton is an Australian film producer who does most of her work with Closer Productions in Adelaide, South Australia. Working in film and television across many genres, she is known for producing 52 Tuesdays, The Hunting, Aftertaste, and Animals.
Rebecca Summerton did a Bachelor of Arts at Flinders University in Adelaide.
In 2006 Summerton produced the short film My Last Ten Hours With You, directed by Sophie Hyde, which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2007. The film won several awards including at the SA Short Screen Awards (part of the Adelaide Film Festival) including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Drama, and Emerging Producer. It won Best Film at the Mardi Gras My Queer Career Film Festival and the Audience Award at Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was selected for competition at Uppsala Film Festival in Sweden and St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne.
She worked at the South Australian Film Corporation in the 2000s, where she was key in the establishment of the FilmLab initiative in 2008, to encourage emerging filmmakers to create their first feature films on a low budget. In 2007-8 she was a part-time project officer at SAFC.
After joining Closer Productions in 2011, she produced the feature documentary Sam Klemke's Time Machine, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was also screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In the same year she produced director Sophie Hyde's award-winning debut feature 52 Tuesdays.
Summerton has produced many documentaries, including the Dendy Award-winning short film I Want to Dance Better at Parties in 2014. For television, she produced the three-part documentary series about art, Hannah Gadsby's Oz, and the six-part comedy drama Fucking Adelaide in 2018.
Summerton produced the SBS Television drama mini-series The Hunting (2019) and the feature film Animals, released in 2021. The Hunting attracted the highest number of viewers ever for a drama series on SBS.
In 2020-2022 Summerton co-produced (with Erik Thomson and Matthew Bate) two series of the comedy-drama Aftertaste for ABC Television.
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Rebecca Summerton
Rebecca "Bec" Summerton is an Australian film producer who does most of her work with Closer Productions in Adelaide, South Australia. Working in film and television across many genres, she is known for producing 52 Tuesdays, The Hunting, Aftertaste, and Animals.
Rebecca Summerton did a Bachelor of Arts at Flinders University in Adelaide.
In 2006 Summerton produced the short film My Last Ten Hours With You, directed by Sophie Hyde, which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2007. The film won several awards including at the SA Short Screen Awards (part of the Adelaide Film Festival) including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Drama, and Emerging Producer. It won Best Film at the Mardi Gras My Queer Career Film Festival and the Audience Award at Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was selected for competition at Uppsala Film Festival in Sweden and St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne.
She worked at the South Australian Film Corporation in the 2000s, where she was key in the establishment of the FilmLab initiative in 2008, to encourage emerging filmmakers to create their first feature films on a low budget. In 2007-8 she was a part-time project officer at SAFC.
After joining Closer Productions in 2011, she produced the feature documentary Sam Klemke's Time Machine, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was also screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In the same year she produced director Sophie Hyde's award-winning debut feature 52 Tuesdays.
Summerton has produced many documentaries, including the Dendy Award-winning short film I Want to Dance Better at Parties in 2014. For television, she produced the three-part documentary series about art, Hannah Gadsby's Oz, and the six-part comedy drama Fucking Adelaide in 2018.
Summerton produced the SBS Television drama mini-series The Hunting (2019) and the feature film Animals, released in 2021. The Hunting attracted the highest number of viewers ever for a drama series on SBS.
In 2020-2022 Summerton co-produced (with Erik Thomson and Matthew Bate) two series of the comedy-drama Aftertaste for ABC Television.