All the arts are predominan... by Ann Macbeth, an English Author

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“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”

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Name: Ann Macbeth

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: 1875

Date of Death: 1948

Profession: Author

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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

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I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

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We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

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