The Burrowes Film Group was a short lived Australian production company established in the wake of the success of ''

The Man from Snowy River The Man from Snowy River may refer to: * The Man from Snowy River (poem), "The Man from Snowy River" (poem), an 1890 Australian poem by Banjo Paterson. * ''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses'' an 1895 poetry collection by Banjo Paterson (inc ...

'' (1982) and ''

Anzacs ANZAC, ''Anzacs'' (named for members of the all volunteer army formations) is a 1985 Australian five-part television miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion ( ...

'' (1985). It was named after

Geoff Burrowes Geoff Burrowes (born 1945) is an Australian filmmaker best known for the movie '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and the TV mini-series Anzacs (1985); he was a founding partner of the Burrowes Film Group.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantati ...

. Other key personnel included John Dixon and George T. Miller. In late 1985 they announced a $53 million package of several films over the next two years, including ''Cool Change'', ''Free Enterprise'' (which became ''Running from the Guns''), ''The Man from Snowy River 2'', ''Clancy of the Overflow'', ''Backstage'', ''Future Tense'' (which became ''Dogs in Space'') and ''Ground Zero''. Of these only ''Clancy'' - with a proposed budget of $12 million - was not made."Production round-up", ''Cinema Papers'', November 1985 p48 For ''Dogs in Space'' and ''Ground Zero'' the company worked mainly to secure finance leaving creative decisions to others, in exchange for a fee.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 514-515 However the majority of the movies were not financially successful and the company was soon wound up. The accounting practices of the group earned them a great deal of notoriety within the industry.

Select credits

* '' Cool Change'' (1985) * ''

Dogs in Space During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. The Soviet space program typically used female dogs due to their anatomical compa ...

'' (1986) * ''

Ground Zero A hypocenter or hypocentre (), also called ground zero or surface zero, is the point on the Earth's surface directly below a nuclear explosion, meteor air burst, or other mid-air explosion. In seismology, the hypocenter of an earthquake is its p ...

'' (1987) * ''

Running from the Guns ''Running from the Guns'' (originally known as ''Free Enterprise'') is a 1987 Australian crime thriller film directed by John Dixon and starring Jon Blake, Mark Hembrow, Nikki Coghill, Terence Donovan, and Peter Whitford. It is a buddy action f ...

'' (1987) * ''

Backstage Backstage may refer to: * Backstage (theatre), the areas of a theatre that are not part of the house or stage Film and television * ''Back Stage'' (1917 film), a silent film starring Oliver Hardy * ''Back Stage'' (1919 film), a silent film starri ...

'' (1988) * ''

The Man from Snowy River II ''The Man from Snowy River II'' is a 1988 Australian drama film, the sequel to the 1982 film '' The Man from Snowy River'', which was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was released in the United States by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution un ...

'' (1988) * '' Minnamurra'' (1989)

Unmade films

* ''Clancy of the Overflow'' – a proposed $12 million film based on the poem which was to be shot in 1987

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