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Western Australia’s first colour feature film was the “Nickel Queen”.

Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.

Finance was raised from a Perth syndicate, which included TVW Channel Seven and Fauna Productions in Sydney, with the credits showing that the movie was made by Woomera Productions. A number of TVW staff are in the Parmelia Hotel scene, where John Hudson has a part as the television interviewer, with Rick Rogers as the radio interviewer. Lu Belci is seen as the News cine-cameraman. John Easton is seen as a television floor manager.

The Government of Western Australia provided valuable assistance with the making of the film. There were appearances by Sir David Brand the Premier of Western Australia, The Hon. Charles Court (later Sir Charles) the Minister for Industrial Development and The Hon. Arthur Griffith the Minister for Mines.

Since then, the film industry in Western Australia has slowly grown to encompass a wide range of productions and a wide range of filmmakers. Funding can be sourced from ScreenWest, Screen Australia, Film and Television Institute WA (FTI), television broadcasters and private investors, though FTI wound up operations on 20 June 2017, when it merged with Screenwest.

Ahead of the state election in March 2022, the Western Australian government has committed to launch a $20 million production attraction fund and to develop a $100 million studio and sound stage in Fremantle.

According to Screenwest, screen investment in Western Australia hit over $51 million in 2019-20, doubling the size of the Western Australian screen industry over the past three years, with a strong flow of production originating in and coming into the state.

Filmmakers and productions can be recognised at the West Australian Screen Awards.