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The article focuses on the initiatives of filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele to finance his own filmmaking in Australia. He creates a project called "The Lonely Side of the Road" and submitted it to the Australian Film Development Corp. (AFDC) in July 1971. He enlists writers Barry Oakley and Robert Dalvean for writing the full script of the project and convinces the AFDC on the viability of the project. He also presents another project, originally called "A Game of Chess" and re-titled to "The Losing Ground," to the Victorian Film Corp. (VFC).