One colony of Australian filmmakers rarely manages to operate as a community, perhaps because their subjects touch so many raw nerves, and that is the horror film makers.
We have spectacular examples of genre horror(ish) makers thriving, like the Spierig Brothers, or the Saw crew, and others like Andrew Traucki who has managed to make four features in thirteen years. Feminist horror filmmakers are an important strand, bolstered until recently by the Stranger with My Face festival in Tasmania.