theMazed

Stephen Corvini was one of our guest lecturers who came to RMIT to deliver us a delightful speech. He works at Film Victoria as an investment manager. I was supposed to record his speech in the class but I quit that idea at the last moment because I was thinking he would talk more about investment and marketing and my research paper was about the struggling Australian media industry. Surprisingly Stephen was talking about the past history of Australian film industry and eventually he gave us a lot of information in his speech. Then my lecturer Elisa Tranter gave me the idea to interview him for my research paper. Then my mission started to hunt Stephen. I did not get any reply from my first mail, so then I tried again. The second knock was successful and on the e-mail we both agreed to fix a day for a phone interview.
I had a question format that I followed to ask questions to Stephen and I also had to make some related questions on the spot while he was talking. The best thing that I came to know from the interview is that every industry has its bad times, and naturally it is now for the Australian industry. The government seems optimistic by giving more funding to this industry but wider concern is needed. We can never compete with American films, because they spend a lot of money just for marketing of the film, which is not possible for such a small industry. The most important part is, if we can create a standard platform for our exported artists to come here as they are coming and came in recent years and within that, if we could make some box office success, then faith will come back and this industry could rise again to a high peak. A new generation of film makers are coming who are called “guerrilla film makers”. I believe they will empower this industry in a positive way, but this whole process is going to take some time. And again!!! New features like Boy Town, Book of Revolution and couple of more films are coming which might give us a happy 2006 for box office success.