History is hurtling towards us all..
Screen Australia’s latest research and position paper on issues in feature film distribution is an honest admission of the crisis, a guide to the landscape, and a sobering admission that the traditional marketplace is broken.
In a phone conversation triggered by the release of the paper, CEO Graeme Mason said, ‘You can’t make the film you wanted to make in 1996. It’s worldwide. If you look at the box office for arthouse speciality films, you used to do $4-10m with a good one, now it’s a success if it’s done a million.
