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

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

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

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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