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The battle to make Bruce Beresford’s ‘Black Robe’ – one of Australia’s first co-productions in the 1990s

·September 24, 2024

This story is an edited excerpt from the book ‘Money, art and madness: How the war between bureaucrats & auteurs killed the Australian film industry‘.

Co-production treaties allow the world to compete against the might of American cinema, but in the 1990s, they were new and somewhat audacious structures. Bruce Beresford’s Black Robe was one of the first alongside Peter Weir’s...

The battle to make Bruce Beresford’s ‘Black Robe’ – one of Australia’s first co-productions in the 1990s

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The battle to make Bruce Beresford’s ‘Black Robe’ – one of Australia’s first co-productions in the 1990s

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Here’s where filmmakers can win the biggest at Australian film festivals

Aus box office: ‘Runt’ posts third biggest opening weekend among Aus films this year, passes $1m total