Australian industry was complacent for 20 years: Miller

Director George Miller announced the beginning of production for Happy Feet 2 in Sydney, adding that NSW and Australia have been ‘lazy’ but that situation is changing, particularly with the state’s production attraction activities and the opening of a new state-of-the-art motion capture facility at CarriageWorks in Sydney.

Miller said that what New Zealand – and Wellington in particular – have achieved should be an inspiration for Australia.

“The Australian film industry has been complacent for about 20 years. There’s been moments of brilliance, but those moments have been unsustained. There’s a fantastic talent and infrastructure, but no productions to really keep it going,” he said.

“In NSW and Australia we were too lazy and we let others steal the march, but now it’s changing, and this is a brilliant time.”