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"A friend contacted me this week to say she’d watched my film
Sleeping Beauty
on SBS World Movies last weekend. “Oh no,” I said. “They always butcher it.”
For some ungodly reason – well, a fiscal reason – the majority-publicly-funded
broadcaster sees fit to jam advertisements into feature films. It’s a barbaric
practice that would never fly in other countries. A Get-Up petition back in
2015 raised some 60,000 signatures in protest, to no avail.
We all worked so hard to make
Sleeping Beauty. Thousands and thousands of
hours went into creating that ineffable flow of image, sound, story.
Make-believe ain’t easy.
The film had significant public funding. The brief was to make a valuable
cultural contribution. We delivered. Our artistic efforts were recognised
worldwide. The film was nominated for the Palme D’Or and Camera D’Or at Cannes
in 2011. (At the time there hadn’t been an Australian film in competition for
10 years). It was distributed in something like 60 countries.
SBS seems intent on ruining all that good work. I couldn’t bring myself to
watch the butchery again, but here’s what happened when I last watched the film
on its platform."
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
