For the first time in one place in the west, there were important people from all the other states, all aspects of the film world.
For the first time in one place in the west, there were important people from all the other states, all aspects of the film world.
I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
I am very much in favour of video because the quality of production of video is now so good. It is a different experience to sitting in a cinema.
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.
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