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South Australia’s Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) has been named Australia’s Exporter of the Year.

The local VFX company, also took home the Creative Industries Award in the Australian Export Awards held in Canberra, with software company Fivecast recognised as the Advanced Technologies Exporter of the Year.

Among 12 South Australian companies to be nominated across 13 categories, RSP has produced visual effects for global successes including the Warner Bros. the Harry Potter series, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, Marvel’s X-Men series, and HBO’s Game of Thrones, all from its Adelaide studio. Recent work for RSP includes Deadpool & Wolverine, The Fall Guy, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

Both companies were winners in the recent South Australian Premier’s Business and Export Awards where RSP was named Creative Industries Exporter of the Year and Fivecast won the South Australian Exporter of the Year Award and the Advanced Technologies Exporter of the Year category.

Fivecast is a global provider of open-source intelligence solutions, delivering targeted data collection and AI-enabled risk analytics – developed to specifically meet the ongoing challenges facing the intelligence community.

Congratulations to all the South Australian companies nominated in the national awards:

• Agribusiness, Food and Beverages: The Yoghurt Shop
• e-Commerce: SKDA Moto Creative
• Emerging Exporter: MaxM Skate
• International Education and Training: Flinders University
• International Health: Avance Clinical
• Manufacturing and Advanced Materials: REDARC Electronics
• Professional Services: RDI Partners
• Regional Exporter: Balco Australia
• Resources and Energy: Green Gold Energy
• Small Business: Wilco Technologies