Ann Macbeth

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

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry. ”

They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none. ”

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs. ”

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. ”

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. ”

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important. ”

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead. ”

Video just accesses international information so much more readily. ”

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. ”