In Australia our problem is that the local industry is run by a bunch of fifty year old bureaucrats that don’t have the faintest, f**king idea of what an attractive film is as they have the imaginative creativity of a cardboard box.
All that gets the money is whatever looks like it has the potential to promote the country, i.e Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’.
The Ozploitation Documentary “Not Quite Hollywood” (a must see for any QT fan) fascinated me. I never new that we actually had a cool film industry back in the 80s and the problem is…nor would anyone else my age- i think I’m the only teenager in Australia who watched the film (along with maybe two other adults in the cinema) and appreciated how great it was.
I may have deviated from the initial point of the thread but what i am trying to say is its all about who has the money and what they want to do with it. The people with the money don’t care about film makers, they care about film watchers.
