Third Take: Australian film-makers talk

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The companion volume to "Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk", this text places its emphasis on Australian film-makers who now work overseas, and the impact Australian film-makers have had on the international scene. Contributors include Peter Weir, Rolf de Heer, John Seale, Phillip Noyce, and Andrew Dominik (director of "Chopper"), with a foreword by Anthony Minghella. Australian cinema has been in resurgence since the 1980s, hitting the front pages and winning awards worldwide. Not surprisingly, there has been a substantial amount of writing about this increase in the popularity of Australian film, and about the development of an Australian aesthetic. However, there have been no forums for those who actually make the films to discuss their own work and the work of fellow filmmakers: the intended purpose of this book, which allows them to engage with the issues and concerns usually raised by journalists and critics.

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Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton are the authors of Second Take: Australian film-makers talk. Raffaele Caputo studied cinema at La Trobe University and has been a writer on film for over 15 years, contributing to various journals and newspapers, which have included Cinema Papers, Filmnews, Scripsi, Filmviews, The Sunday Herald, The Age, Australian MultiMedia and Business Review Weekly. He has also lectured in film studies at Monash University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and La Trobe University, been an assistant editor of Cinema Papers, as well as assistant editor, contributor and researcher for two books edited by Scott Murray, Australian Film: 1978 - 1992 (Oxford University Press, 1993) and Australian Cinema (Allen & Unwin, 1994). Geoff Burton has been working continuously in the film industry for 33 years. He has worked as a Director of Photography on films including: Sunday Too Far Away, Storm Boy, The Year My Voice Broke, Wide Sargasso Sea and The Sum of Us as well as numerous television series and documentaries.