While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.