Thursday, January 14, 2010

Week 6-Grace on Australia's Film Industry

Discussion board of Australian film industry

The Australian film industry produced their first full length movie in 1906. The story of Kelly Gang was the first successful australian movie which attracted more than 2 million audiences in the premiere of this movie. This movie was shown in Britain, New Zealand, and some Asian countries.

Later, Australia's film industry developed their quality significantly with the movies they have produced. The Australian production Happy Feet won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2007. The qualities that attract overseas film producers to Australia include its world class studio facilities, stunning diversity of landscape, and great diversity of culture in australia. 

I have watched twoAaustralian movies which are successful and unsuccessful. The one I watched that has been unsuccessful is the movie called "Australia" . This movie is one of the Australian movies which tell the old story about a journey and love . These movies aren't watched by a wide audience like Hollywood films, because they think that the story of this movie is quite boring and not entertaining.

On the other hand, movies such as "Samson and Delilah" has been the most successful Australian movie which was produced in this year. This movie is directed by Warwick Thornton. The film is a teenage love story of two Aboriginal tribes in Australia. Located in the poor neighborhood in the middle of the aboriginal tribe of barren , hot, and dirty desert. This movie brings an interesting story and promotes australian landscape and culture.

Hence, Australian government are actively supporting the Australian film industry through the financial support they gave and they also provide tax incentives to private sector investors as well. In 2006 and 2007, government funding represented 17 % of the total funding forAustralian produced and co produced feature films in production.

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