Our film industry may be booming but we don't tell Australian stories
He said the boom in international production had an unintended knock-on effect for smaller, relatively small-budget Australian-made content films that were already struggling to make, from being too expensive to attract local crews and find willing distributors and cinema operators. . to support them “long enough for the audience to find them”. “They are facing a big blockbuster with a big marketing budget; if these little no-budget Australian films don’t compete, they’ll be gone in a few weeks off screens before people can find them. Cinema operators have to make money.” Shots with Queensland doubled for Bali: David (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) in Ticket to Heaven. Credit: Universal “The last thing we wanted was to be a service industry for American films. So many Australian producers who may have produced local films of cultural value are now working as service producers on international projects or for streamers. All that profit and intellectual property goes ov