White Fella's Dreaming
''40,000 Years of Dreaming'' (''White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema'') is an hour-long documentary film presented by George Miller (filmmaker), George Miller and produced by the British Film Institute, as part of its ''Century of Cinema'' series. The film is mainly a collage of various pieces of Australian film, past and present, including Miller's own Mad Max (franchise), ''Mad Max'' series. Miller focuses primarily on Australian cinema as a vessel of public Dreaming, creating a link between contemporary Australian cinema and the Dreamtime lores from a variety of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Australian groups. Miller also places Australian cinema in the context of Joseph Campbell's monomyth concept. It has been out of print since its release in 1997, along with several of the other films in the ''Century of Cinema'' series, apart from Martin Scorsese's A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, feature. It has occasionally been air ...
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George Miller (filmmaker)
George Miller (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker best known for his ''Mad Max'' franchise, whose second installment, ''Mad Max 2'', and fourth, ''Fury Road'', have been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time, with ''Fury Road'' winning six Academy Awards. Miller is very diverse in genre and style as he also directed the biographical medical drama ''Lorenzo's Oil'', the dark fantasy ''The Witches of Eastwick'', the Academy Award-winning animated film ''Happy Feet,'' produced the family-friendly fantasy adventure ''Babe'' and directed the sequel '' Babe: Pig in the City.'' Miller is a co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios. His younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell have been producers on almost all the films in Miller's later career, since the death of his original producing partner Byron Kennedy. In 2006, Miller won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for ...
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