Editing Tim Burstall (section)

==After America==

Burstall wrote and directed the 1969 feature ''[[2000 Weeks]]''. A commercial failure, savaged by the critics, the film's poor reception would lead Burstall to move to more populist works with his next films, ''Stork'' and sex comedy ''Alvin Purple''. The film's failure also influenced [[Bruce Beresford]] and [[Phillip Adams (writer)|Phillip Adams]] to move in a more populist direction when they came to make early Australian hit ''The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' in 1972.

Burstall then formed a new company with Pat Ryan, David Bilcock and Rob Copping, Bilock and Copping with the view to making commercials to fund features. He looked at making a film called ''Filth'' and had money to develop it, but decided to make ''Stork'' instead.<ref name="Murray493">Murray p493</ref>