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From Ann Macbeth
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
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.
We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
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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