For generations, Brighton Savoy was a place where people checked in for a seaside stay, gathered for a wedding or shared a celebration overlooking Port Phillip Bay. The hotel also had another role: providing a setting for stories created for the screen.
Television programmes, advertising campaigns and music videos brought a different kind of activity to the property. The same variety of spaces that supported a busy hospitality business also gave production teams a choice of interiors within one location.
From Kath & Kim and Troye Sivan’s Happy Little Pill to Fake, Apple Cider Vinegar and an Uber Eats commercial featuring Andy Murray, Brighton Savoy’s filming history became a distinctive part of the hotel’s story.
A familiar Brighton hotel with a different role on screen
Our family’s involvement with Brighton Savoy began in 1967. Over the following decades, the property opposite Brighton Beach welcomed hotel guests, wedding couples, restaurant diners and conference delegates. That experience is preserved in our Brighton Savoy history and background.
For a location scout, a hotel offered several recognisable settings in one building. An arrival at reception, a conversation in a guest room, a restaurant meeting and a formal function could each suggest a different part of a story.
Brighton Savoy’s screen connections spanned its hospitality years and the later period when the closed hotel was promoted for exclusive production use. The former promotional material described a 4.5-star hotel setting available for film, television and advertising projects.
Previous shoots at Brighton Savoy
Our filming archive records productions across television, advertising and music. Previous shoots included the following:
Uber Eats commercial featuring Andy Murray
An Uber Eats commercial featuring tennis player Andy Murray was among the advertising shoots associated with the property. The original filming page linked to FINCH, the production company named in the listing.
Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix
The Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar was also included among Brighton Savoy’s previous shoots. Its place in the archive records the property’s connection with a more recent generation of Australian screen drama.
Fake, Paramount+
The Paramount+ series Fake forms another part of the hotel’s production history. Alongside the other television credits, it reflects the range of projects that used Brighton Savoy as a location.
Troye Sivan, Happy Little Pill
Brighton Savoy was a filming location for Troye Sivan’s Happy Little Pill music video. This connection brought the hotel into a different creative format, where the appearance and atmosphere of a location could become part of a song’s visual identity.
Kath & Kim, Sitting on a Pile
The hotel’s comedy connection included Kath & Kim, series three, episode three, “Sitting on a Pile”. The episode is a memorable entry in the archive for viewers familiar with the Australian comedy and for people who remember the Brighton Savoy itself.
Daniel Pegler music videos
Music video shoots also included Daniel Pegler’s Don’t Judge Me and Where Are You Now. These projects add to a screen history that encompassed both individual performers and larger commercial productions.
The hotel spaces offered for filming
The former location offering covered much of the hotel. It included guest accommodation rooms, the lobby and front reception desk, restaurant and bar areas, café-style dining settings, wedding reception and ceremony spaces, meeting and conference rooms, and the undercover carpark.
That variety was central to the property’s appeal. A production could consider several settings at the same address, with the possibility of changing furniture, lighting and decoration to suit its requirements.
The function spaces were particularly adaptable in concept. Rooms designed for gatherings could suggest a wedding reception, a business event, a formal dinner or another social occasion. Their original hospitality role is remembered in our Brighton Savoy wedding archive.
How familiar interiors took on a different character
Archived photographs show bedroom and lounge arrangements, dining interiors decorated with red lanterns, and commercial kitchen spaces with cooking equipment and food preparation areas. Together, they illustrate the visual range available within the property.
They also offer a glimpse of how a location could be dressed for the camera. Furniture placement, table settings, decorative details and props could change the character of a room, allowing the production’s fictional setting to take precedence over the building’s everyday identity.
For anyone who attended a function or stayed at Brighton Savoy, these photographs provide another way to remember the interiors: as spaces that could be adapted for someone else’s story.
The appeal of exclusive use after the hotel closed
After regular hotel operations ended, exclusive access became a central feature of the production offering. The former promotional material highlighted the opportunity to work within the property without the competing demands of ordinary guest stays and public hospitality service.
The intended advantage was greater flexibility for setting up, dressing rooms and organising a shoot. Existing hotel interiors offered a starting point for production design, while the range of rooms allowed different visual settings to be considered within the same property.
This was a particular chapter in Brighton Savoy’s history. The original invitation to hire the hotel is preserved here as background to its filming role.
Remembering Brighton Savoy on screen
Most people who knew Brighton Savoy remember the occasions they experienced there: a wedding, a family celebration, a meal or a stay by the beach. Its filming history adds another collection of memories.
The production listings and photographs preserve the connection between a familiar Brighton property and the creative teams who used it. Through television, advertising and music videos, the hotel became part of stories reaching audiences well beyond its front doors.
