Notable Figures
Directors and actors who launched successful careers as a direct result of the Australian New Wave include:
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Similarly, Australian cinematographers such as Russell Boyd, John Seale, Dean Semler and Donald McAlpine also rode the wave to international success.
Sue Mathews' 35mm Dreams, published at the height of the Australian New Wave in 1984, was a landmark study of the major Australian directors of the time. Among the directors portrayed, one - John Duigan - had not yet received widespread critical and box-office acclaim. He came to worldwide attention after making The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and its sequel Flirting (1991) a few years later.
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