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By Peter Mitchell December 23, 2003  Printer friendly version
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Matrix series was filmed in Australia  David Pratt's office is
on the 19th floor of a tower in Los Angeles, just across the
road from the Twentieth Century Fox studio lot. It's also a
short walk to the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tower.  It's a
convenient location for Pratt's role as AusFILM's Los Angeles-
based commissioner.  His job is to entice Hollywood studios to
shoot in Australia instead of Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, South
Africa, eastern Europe and the US.  Locked away in Pratt's
office is a confidential list of 31 film and television projects
Hollywood studios plan to shoot somewhere in the world in coming
months.  In early 2001, when the Australian dollar was worth
around 50 US cents and the images