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When you think of your favourite Christmas film, chances are it involves snow, a hot dinner or Bruce Willis (Die Hard is set at Christmas time), a stark contrast to how we celebrate the festive season in sunny Queensland. 
So why have we not welcomed an Australian Christmas film into our top-10 festive films?
A lack of Australian films is probably the reason, QUT Faculty of Creative Industries lecturer in film Dr Mark Ryan said, with the Christmas movie genre "almost non-existent" in Australia.
"Sentimental favourites like It's a Wonderful Life (1946) or Miracle on 34th Street (1947) are the same, whereas in Australia at that time we produced Bush Christmas with Chips Rafferty. It was shot around the Blue Mountains and was a hit in Australia and Britain at the time but is now largely forgotten," Dr Ryan said.
"Crackers (1998) remains a memorable and extremely quirky film, but it is a rarity."
Dr Ryan said Australian filmmakers tended to steer away from mainstream and popular films in the past but he said now was the time for Australian filmmakers to start making their mark on Christmas-themed films.
"Australian filmmakers in the past have strived to have a sense of social realism, they have tended to be more gritty in terms of how they present their content, and have been concerned with presenting who we are as a people," he said.
"It is time for a movie that captures the quintessential Australian Christmas, what it means to us.
"There is no reason why the typical Christmas format can't work, but it would be a very different movie. There is a story to be told there."
There has been a recent trend of Australian family-friendly films involving animals, which Dr Ryan thinks could pave the way for more Christmas-themed films.
"The cycle at the moment is animal films and filmmakers are seeing that Australian film-goers will watch a fun, family film," he said.
"A string of animals movies like Happy Feet (2006), Red Dog (2011) and Oddball (2015) have been recent local successes.
"I think in the future as we make more fun family films that target this category, I think there is real opportunity to make Christmas movies.
"Australian cinema is starting to make bigger movies, more entertaining, that are more popular and more mainstream. There has been a strong move towards that."
Dr Ryan said the Christmas movie formula was easy enough.
"The traditional schmaltzy Christmas film, be it a comedy or a romance, tends to be formulaic," he said.
"There is an obligation to catch up with family but there's tension between characters, everything goes wrong or they work it out, Christmas brings everyone together and they learn an important life lesson in the process.
"There is no reason Christmas couldn't be set in sunny Queensland, with people getting together and working out their stuff.
"Crackers had a bizarre quirky edge that I think we would see more of if our filmmakers did turn their hand to Christmas movies - heat, barbecues, squabbling families and bizarre antics and rituals in suburban settings."
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