The budget/marketplace reality question is pretty messy. Here Mark Poole charts different currents of thought about risk, risk aversion, the financial ghetto in which arthouse is being trapped – and the impact of falling incomes for producers. That potato is mostly too hot to handle.
Antony I. Ginnane, Robert Connolly, Alex Fernandes from EFIC, Tim Phillips from Screen Australia and Anni Browning from Film Finances Australasia supplied the experience and summations.