Coming Up from Down Under (1983)
Synopsis
A documentary that reviews the re-emerging Australian film industry of the time. Even though the film refers to the Australian cinema prior to the mid ’70s, it concentrates on the period 1975-1983. The documentary features extracts from feature films and interviews with celebrities like Mel Gibson, Olivia Newton-John, Dustin Hoffman and Richard Chamberlain.
Curator’s notes
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Damien Parer
The documentary is a useful reference to worldwide attitudes to Australian films. The documentary is broken into chapter headings: 'The Koala that Roared’; 'Aussie Women’; 'Sydney Koala goes to Hollywood’; 'The Oldest Race: Legends and Dreams’; and 'Koala Bears are My Kind of People’.
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