Australian Cinema 1970-1985

The meteoric rise of Australian filmaking in the last fifteen years has astonished the world as a whole industry, and a virtual new genre, seeming to spring from nowhere. While Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, and Sam Neill are now internationally known figures, the films that made their reputations remain intimately and resolutely Australian, bound up with that nation's unique situation in the world, its landscape, history and national spirit.