australian film culture
[interview - 15 minutes 55 seconds]Australian film did not begin with Priscilla, Crocodile Dundee, or even Mad Max.
ARTS alive's guest Gil Brealey was the first film director to be employed by ABC Television. He went on to become the founding chair and director of the South Australian Film Corporation. In the 1960s Gil was told by Prime Minister John Gordon that Australia would soon have its own film industry. Less than one decade later an Australian National Cinema had certainly been consolidated.
Gil Brealey speaks of his experience with the Commonwealth Film Unit with Vincent O'Donnell.
In part two of this interview Vincent O'Donnell asked Gil how he came to make films.
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