And apart from the matter of keeping indigenous culture and languages alive while there are still people who remember them, what better fount of storytelling do we have from which to pluck a million tales of heroism, thrills, romance and terror as the Dreamtime?

Welcome to the age of the fan director, when films are jammed with references to other films the director holds dear, the films that inspired him or her to get into the movies in the first place.

Movies are magic because they take us somewhere. They transport us to every corner of the earth — even places that don’t exist. Everybody knows the art of cinema or TV is to maintain the illusion we’re actually there even though we know there’s an army of cameras, lights, technicians, the continuity girl, the catering […]