Melbourne’s Docklands Studios have just turned ten. The moment was marked by a carefully modest celebration dressed by a combination of the Victorian Opera and Channel Nine, using some sofas, bits of pillar and strategic lights to turn a cavernous box into a chance for speeches.
Rod Allan, the CEO, first came to studio management as the director of operations at Fox in Moore Park, where he was responsible for the conversion from showground to studios. It is not an easy business to be in – as he said on the phone, “It is pretty widely known that studios are not cash cows. A film studio is a factory, after all, and it is about what comes out of the factory. That is the important thing, I think.”
