Rosemary Blight

Rosemary Blight is an Australian film producer, credited with films such as The Sapphires (world premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and AACTA Award for Best Film), The Tree (closed the 2010 Cannes Film Festival), and Clubland (featured at the Sundance Film Festival). Her television work includes the Lockie Leonard series. She has been principal partner and company director with Goalpost Pictures since 1992, and a board member of Screen Australia since 2013.

Early life Blight has a degree in communications from Macquarie University. Her first film was Kay Pavlou's short The Killing of Angelo Tsakos, which led to her securing a job with independent producer John Maynard. Goalpost Pictures was named Media Super Production Business of the Year at the annual Screen Producers Australia Awards. Goalpost Pictures has an alliance with Goalpost Film in the UK, the international sales company run by Tristan Whalley.

In July 2021 Blight, along with actor and filmmaker Wayne Blair and Australian producers Darren Dale and Kylie du Fresne, were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Notable films Blight's most successful film to date has been The Sapphires, which was in Official Selection at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and released in the US by The Weinstein Company. Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn and directed by Cherie Nowlan, screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Warner Independent Pictures in the US as Introducing the Dwights. The Tree, directed by Julie Bertuccelli and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, was closing night film of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and received a standing ovation.

Films Her films include the following:

Film Release date Director Cast I Am Woman 2019 Unjoo Moon Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Danielle Macdonald, Evan Peters Top End Wedding 2019 Wayne Blair Gwilym Lee, Kerry Fox and Miranda Tapsell Holding the Man 2015 Neil Armfield Sarah Snook, Guy Pearce, Anthony LaPaglia Felony 2013 Matthew Saville Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, Tom Wilkinson The Sapphires 2012 Wayne Blair Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Chris O'Dowd Panic at Rock Island (TV movie) 2011 Tony Tilse Grant Bowler, Zoe Cramond, Eli Kent The Tree 2011 Julie Bertuccelli Charlotte Gainsbourg Closed for Winter 2009 James Bogle Natalie Imbruglia Scorched 2008 Tony Tilse Cameron Daddo, Rachael Carpani, Georgie Parker The Eternity Man 2008 Julien Temple Grant Doyle, Christa Hughes, Lara Mulcahy Introducing the Dwights(aka) Clubland 2007 Cherie Nowlan Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth, Richard Wilson Stepfather of the Bride (TV movie) 2006 Roger Hodgman Alex Dimitriades, Leon Ford, Lucy Taylor Small Claims: The Reunion (TV movie) 2006 Tony Tilse Claudia Karvan, Rebecca Gibney, Lisa Chappell Small Claims: White Wedding (TV movie) 2005 Cherie Nowlan Claudia Karvan, Rebecca Gibney, Lisa Chappell Small Claims (TV movie) 2004 Cherie Nowlan Claudia Karvan, Rebecca Gibney, Robert Mammone Go Big 2004 Tony Tilse Justine Clarke, Tom Long, Alex Dimitriades Fresh Air 1999 Neil Mansfield Marin Mimica, Nadine Garner, Bridie Carter In the Winter Dark 1998 James Bogle Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh Mary 1994 Kay Pavlou Lucy Bell