7 August 2008
Ozploitation: genre films of the seventies
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Back in the seventies, a lot of young film-makers were having a great time making a swag of low-budget, very fast films. There was lots of naked flesh, sex and over-the-top gore with memorable titles like Night of Fear, Thirst, Snapshot and Turkey Shoot. Collectively, they've come to be known as Ozploitation.
Some in this action and horror genre made it big in the US, particularly in the drive-ins. They've also received the big thumbs-up from the Prince of Pulp, Quentin Tarantino. In fact, Tarantino counts some of them among his all time favourites.
In Australia Talks Movies a panel of film-makers and producers who were part of the genre talk about that moment in our film history, what those films were about and how they've fared against the more traditional art house cinema of the time, like Picnic at Hanging Rock and Breaker Morant.
Guests
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Film director, producer
Antony Ginnane
Film producer and distributor, President of IFM World Releasing
Mark Hartley
Film maker, Not Quite Hollywood
Alan Finney
Managing Director, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Australia
Andrew Leavold
Co-founder of Brisbane's cult movie store Trash Video
Catharine Lumby
Writer and cultural commentator, Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales
Further Information
Brisbane International Film Festival
Australian Film Television and Radio School: Antony Ginnane
Australian Film Television and Radio School: Alan Finney
Australian Sreen: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Publications
Title: Alvin Purple
Author: Catharine Lumby
Publisher: Currency Press
Presenter
Paul Barclay
Story Researcher and Producer
Matthew Leonard
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