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Stephen Corvini was one of our guest lecturers came at RMIT to deliver us a delightful speech. He works at Film Victoria as an investment manager. I suppose to record his speech in the class but I quit that idea at the last moment because I was thinking he more would be talking about investment and marketing and my research paper was about struggling Australian media industry. But surprisingly Stephen was talking about past history of Australian film industry and eventually he gave us 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 replay against my first mail, and then I tried again. Second knock was successful and by the e-mail we both agreed to fix a day for a phone interview.
I had a question format that I followed to ask question to Stephen and 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 every industry has its bad time and naturally it is now for Australian industry. But government is optimistic by funding more to this industry but more concern is needed widely. We can never compete our films with American film because they spend a lot of money only for marketing of the film, which is not possible for such a small industry. But 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 raise again to its high peak. A new generation of film makers are coming who are called “guerrilla film makers” will empower this industry that is positive 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.