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“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.” quote by Ann Macbeth — Download Open image

“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”

Ann Macbeth

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The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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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.

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The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they…

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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…

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We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the…

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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom…

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Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

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The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

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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…

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We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people…

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It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and…

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The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

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