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The first film funded by the AFC's IndiVision Project Lab is The Caterpillar Wish, writer/director Sandra Sciberras' compelling small-town drama about a girl determined to unlock the identity of her father. Couched in an alternative cafe on Smith street in Melbourne Sciberras and producer Kate Whitbread chat to Luke Buckmaster about working to see a wish materialise.
Where does the Australian film industry's fascination with small towns and coastal communities come from? Every year at least one film comes out depicting one of those rustic, picturesque hideaway places that seem to linger on the outskirts of every Australian city. Recently we've seen Oyster Farmer (2005), Somersault (2004), Strange Bedfellows (2004) and Australian Rules (2003), while Australian television in recent years has provided Sea Change, McLeod's Daughters, Home and Away, Blue Heelers and plenty more.
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