the australian film industry

Australian Cinema

Ben GoldsmithUniversity of Queensland/

Australian Film, Television and Radio Schoolb.goldsmith@uq.edu.au

Productions de films annuel

Source: Screen Australia National Production Survey 2008-09

Dépenses sur films en Australie

Source: Screen Australia National Production Survey 2008-09

Comparaisons internationales: Nombres

Source: Screen Digest, June 2005, June 2006, July 2007, July 2008 and July 2009; Screen Australia Get the Picture: International Comparisons

Comparaisons Internationales: Dépenses

Source: Screen Digest, July 2009; Screen Australia Get the Picture: International Comparisons

Les Emplois

Production en Australie, Historique

Source: Screen Australia

% de guichet total pour les films Australiens

Source: Screen Australia

Guichet

Source: Screen Australia Get the Picture Online

Cinema Admissions par anRank

(2008)Country 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

1 Iceland 4.9 4.8 5.2 5.1 5.4

2 Ireland 4.3 3.9 4.2 4.3 4.2

2= Singapore 4.5 4.2 3.6 3.8 4.2

4 Australia 4.6 4.0 4.1 4.1 4.1

4= US 5.2 4.7 4.8 4.3 4.1

6 New Zealand

4.2 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.6

7 Canada 3.7 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2

8 South Korea

2.8 2.9 3.4 3.2 3.1

9 France 3.2 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.0

10 India 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.0 2.9

Source: Screen Digest Sept 2005, Oct 2006, and unpublished data from the Cinema Intelligence Service, reproduced at http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/gtp/acompadmitper.html

• 85% of Australian films released in Australian cinemas over the last five years were in limited release (less than 20 prints) or specialty release (20-99 prints)

• Total number of Australian cinema screens: 1,980

• Average growth in number of screens 2004-08 = 3.5%

Films d’Australie, guichet de tous les temps

Tous les films en Australie, guichet de tous de temps

Qui investit dans les films Australiens?

Les Exemptions Fiscales et les Avantages Fiscaux

• Producer Offset• Location Offset• PDV Offset

Placements des Agences Gouvernementales – développement de projet, production, service de

marketing, éducation, incitations fiscales2007-08

• Les Agences Fédérales - $229.16 m• NSW - $9m• Victoria - $19.22m• Queensland - $11.46m• South Australia - $5.26m• Western Australia – $8.25m• Tasmania – $1.38m• Australian Capital Territory - $0.3m• Northern Territory - $0.55m

State film agencies

Screen West Pacific Film and Television Commission/Screen Queensland

Screen NSW

Film VictoriaSouth Australian Film Corporation

Screen Tasmania

• Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund - $500,000 per year, encourage work in SA, premieres at next Festival

• Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund $800,000 per year

Location of Production

Source: Screen Australia National Production Survey 2008-09

Australian Film Development Corporation 1970-75

– Modeled on Canadian Film Development Corporation– $1 million budget, loans not investment, but– ‘frankly commercial’ films– ‘significant Australian content’– Ocker comedies

Australian Film Commission 1975-2008

• ‘AFC genre’• Development, • Marketing, • Production finance• Research and statistics• Average budget 2000/01-07/08 = $37.85m

Film Finance Corporation 1988-2008

• Investment bank model• 1165 investments in feature films, documentaries,

television drama, children’s drama, but• Poor rate of return• Average budget 2000/01-2007/08 = $61.63m• Average recoupment 2000/01-2005/06 = $12m

Australian Film, Television and Radio School 1973-

• Jerzy Toeplitz• Philip Noyce, Gillian Armstrong, Bruce

Beresford, Jane Campion, Sejong Park• Short films, first feature film 2009• Location• Average budget2000/01-07/08 =$17.64m

Screen Australia 2008-

• Merger of AFC, FFC, Film Australia• National Film and Sound Archive split off• (Development), Production Finance, Producer

Offset, Marketing• Feature film, documentary, (short film),

television• Budget: $93.64m 2009-10

Ausfilm

• Locations marketing• Los Angeles base• Budget: $1.45m 2008-09

L’Australie?

Nouvelle OccasionAustralian Coproduction Foreign shot

in AustraliaForeign, PDV only

Total

2005/06 72 2 25 8 107

2006/07 54 9 8 10 81

2007/08 50 2 9 10 70

2008/09 86 9 1 9 106

4 yr average

65 5 11 9 91

4 yr total 262 21 44 37 364

Hollywood et Australie

• Avant La Première Guerre Mondiale, moins de 50%

• 1923 – c.95% Hollywood films• 100 Australiens dans Hollywood 1920s –

“gum-leaf mafia”, Annette Kellerman, “Snub” Pollard (Keystone Cops), “Snowy” Baker

• 1930s-40s – Orry-Kelly, Errol Flynn

Hollywoodiens en Australie

• The Man from Kangaroo (1920)• For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)

1950s-60s

1980s

Questions actuelles

• Sustainability• Producer Offset - $83m into 19 films 2007-09• Genre• International and local production

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