AustLit

During the 1970s and 1980s Australian cinema was largely produced and financed in Australia and centred on Australian themes and locations. In the 1990s, as Tom O'Regan notes, 'Australian directors and Australian-based productions do not just tell stories set in Australia. The production industry is more internationally integrated than at any time in the recent past. And even those self-evidently 'Australian films' with a modest budget, an Australian cast, setting and crew - like P.J. Hogan's Muriel's Wedding (1994) and Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby (1994) - have some international financing.' O'Regan's paper, written and published in the mid-90s, asks then: 'If such "Australian" films still account for the majority of the features produced, coproductions and greater international involvement from project inception have become more important as the 1990s brought major structural change to the industry.