A Vision Splendid of a delighted Australian audience

Hostile to Australian films? The good folk of Winton want a word with you.
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Image: front of the Winton open air cinema. All images by John Elliott, who works for the Shire.

Everything good about the Australian film industry can be summed up by eight days in the remote central Queensland town of Winton.

It is the kind of town where the mayor Gavin Baskett says, ‘We’ve had a drought running for the last seven years and then it rained in February and we lost 70,000 stock in the Shire.’  

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.