The year my film broke

''IT COMES and it goes," says Richard Roxburgh about Australian film. "It'll wash away for a while then suddenly there'll be something that will capture everybody's imagination."
Last year Kenny, Ten Canoes and Happy Feet captured the imagination of cinema-goers.
They represented three aspects of Australian film at its best - a knockabout character-based comedy with heart, an adventurous telling of an indigenous story and the harnessing of local visual effects expertise and Hollywood financing for an international hit.
This year, we've already seen Bra Boys, Razzle Dazzle, Burke and Wills, Noise and Roxburgh's directing debut, Romulus, My Father.
If there is another Australian film that captures the imagination this year, it will come from a very diverse line-up. For every Australian filmmaker telling an intense dramatic story, there are others aiming for a lighter touch or a new take on a familiar genre.