Peter Weir: A Retrospective

The story of the Australian film industry was a very sad one for a while. Having established itself well during the silent era, the sound era saw the start of a steady decline of the national industry until, by the mid-60s, there were three years in a row where not a single Australian-financed film was made. The Australian government decided to set up a series of funds to encourage filmmaking in the remote and very large country with a minimal population. Most of what got made simply lost mo...