Frustration with the Industry

Frustration with the industry.

I find it difficult to write about Australian film. Probably because I am an Australian and I want our films to do well but I tend to find even with Australian reviewers, they all boost the Australian films as fantastic works. However, when our films are put on a world stage they tend to fall behind the pack.

It is the boarder crossing films such as Bad Boy Bubby  that grasp the attention of world cinema goers because of its outrageous take on Bubby’s life. When considering Australian film is it needed to take into account the fact than many Australian filmmakers are working with extremely low budgets with little support from the government? Is it that art is shunned more than usual in this country?

Why is it that this has been a running issue over the past hundred years and we still can’t seem to get it right?

It is clear we have the talent within our industries this is known by the success of Australian workers in different countries. Australians love their film but tend to avoid Australian films because of their reputation for bad content and boring story lines. Why would mainstream viewers waist twelve dollars on a film they wont enjoy when they go to the cinemas to escape?

Perhaps we are trying too hard to find the controversial or the amazing story. Perhaps we need to start building the industry up searching for new stories in our quickly changing society.