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April 25, 2005
Aussie film: As important as the olive oil industry will become
A remodeled, Bazzified movie Palace opens Down Under: The foyer of South Yarra's Cinema Como used to have about as much personality as a railway station waiting room. Not any more. The new-look Como... is unrecognisable—think bordello meets Gilbert and Sullivan..." The Age profiles Antonio Zeccola, head of the Palace Cinema chain, "which includes the Como and 15 other theatres across Australia... Zeccola also runs distributing arm Palace Films and is a keen investor in the Australian film industry... Zeccola laments the worldwide domination of Hollywood and believes the... Government must do more to support the local film industry, not just with funding, but with appropriate tax incentives. I sincerely would love to see a stronger Australian film industry, because I believe that it's as important as the wine industry has become, as the olive oil industry will become... It's an export industry." Zeccola's invested in Ana Kokkinos' The Book of Revelation and Geoffrey Wright's new Macbeth, as part of up to $A10 million in Australian films in the next 18 months or so. The Age quotes Zeccola, I'm extremely confident that the Australian films of the next couple of years will show what wonderful talent we have here. It's a sin that someone like Ana Kokkinos has to wait four to five years before making her next film. It's immoral.
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