Three years ago Courtney Dawson had a question she couldn.t answer. Why aren.t Australians watching Australian films?
It was this query that threw the 25-year-old into research frenzy, the outcome of which is 60-minute documentary Advance Australian Film.
.I guess once I started looking into it and researching it all, the figures of how Australian films do fare at the box office got me wondering even more,. she tells If. .So when I looked at the last Australian film to hit number one at the box office for the year, it was Strictly Ballroom, which was 21 years ago. That.s such a long time ago . it got me thinking, 'why has it been so long?'
.And looking at the yearly box office figures, Australian films grossed under five per cent pretty much year for over ten years. I just think those numbers are so small, it.s such a small percentage,...
It was this query that threw the 25-year-old into research frenzy, the outcome of which is 60-minute documentary Advance Australian Film.
.I guess once I started looking into it and researching it all, the figures of how Australian films do fare at the box office got me wondering even more,. she tells If. .So when I looked at the last Australian film to hit number one at the box office for the year, it was Strictly Ballroom, which was 21 years ago. That.s such a long time ago . it got me thinking, 'why has it been so long?'
.And looking at the yearly box office figures, Australian films grossed under five per cent pretty much year for over ten years. I just think those numbers are so small, it.s such a small percentage,...
- 2/24/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
A new documentary is set to ask why the Australian film industry can’t operate independently.
Jason Kent, film-maker and founder of new production company Pure Independent Pictures told Encore: “We want to ask, can Australia build a self-sufficient commercial film industry? There are plenty of obvious reasons why we can’t; we’re a small market, competition from Hollywood, there aren’t enough investors. There are a million ideas, but we want to address those one by one and disperse some of the myth.”
“When you think of the big picture, there is no real reason it can’t be done; there’s a video shop on every corner, a multiplex in each city. We have other big commercial industries in Australia. But there’s this idea we’re a small country, as it is we’re a can’t-do country.”
Pure Independent Pictures has resource partners and support in companies Panavision,...
Jason Kent, film-maker and founder of new production company Pure Independent Pictures told Encore: “We want to ask, can Australia build a self-sufficient commercial film industry? There are plenty of obvious reasons why we can’t; we’re a small market, competition from Hollywood, there aren’t enough investors. There are a million ideas, but we want to address those one by one and disperse some of the myth.”
“When you think of the big picture, there is no real reason it can’t be done; there’s a video shop on every corner, a multiplex in each city. We have other big commercial industries in Australia. But there’s this idea we’re a small country, as it is we’re a can’t-do country.”
Pure Independent Pictures has resource partners and support in companies Panavision,...
- 7/27/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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