Film & Theatrical Guns

Film SFX and Blank Ammunition

AV Ballistics (AVB) has been involved in the supply of firearms to the Australian Film, TV and Theatrical Industries since the late 1980s.

Initially a subcontract supplier to larger Film SFX companies, AVB has built the Film Guns division to a self-supporting and independent supplier of firearms of all eras from 17th century to 21st century and even Sci-fi scenarios.

Our particular areas of expertise lie in War Films of the 20th Century

• Old West and Australian Colonial of the 19th Century
• Crime Films (both 1930s and Modern)
• Live Theatre (both Drama and Musical style)

One particular area of expertise is one used in the evergreen production of "Les Miserables" on stage, for which AVB can offer a complete package to theatre companies, including Musketry, Effects, attending armourers, safety training and gun choreography anywhere in Australia. This package has been developed over 10 years of productions of "Les Miserables" in Queensland and New South Wales.

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Film, TV and Theatre credits for Supply and Armourer Services
1988-89	Mission Impossible TV series
1990-93	Several TV commercials and small plays & dramas
1994	Les Miserables (Toowoomba)
1995	Les Miserables (Toowoomba), Sahara, In Pursuit of Honor, Brisbane Dreaming (TV Documentary)
1996	Les Miserables (Brisbane), Thorn Birds II
1997	The Thin Red Line, Medivac TV Series
1998	Pitch Black, The Matrix (I), Loser, Bogeyman
1999	Flipper (TV Series), Komodo, The White Devil (Brisbane), Version of Events
2000	Les Miserables (Gold Coast), Les Miserables (Newcastle), Goatstown, South Pacific (Film), Murder Trail-Milat (Documentary), Oklahoma (Toowoomba)
2001	The Outsider Seconds to Spare Jack Straw Robbery under Arms Redlands Hell West & Crooked (Sydney) Ghost Ship The Matrix II
2002	82 with a Bullet, The Dumb Waiter (Brisbane), Bully for You, A Sting on the Tale (Brisbane), Judith Lucy Show (Brisbane) Fat Cow Motel, Ghost Ship (cont.) NED, Royal Easter Show (Sydney), Japanese TV Crime series, Fish, The Hunter, EuroAsphalt, Fort Lytton Russian Front Reenactment (WWII,1944), Stars in the Park (James Bond Musical:Brisbane), The Great Raid, Peter Pan, Les Miserables (Toowoomba)
2003	Several prospective features and theatrical engagements.

AVB usually just supplies equipment to production armourers; AVB does supervise small films, student productions and Live Theatre productions in its own right. AVB both manufacturers and imports Blank ammunition to suit all productions.

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