Peter Weir briefly attended Sydney University, dropped out to join his father's real estate business, and left that job for a trip to Europe in 1966. Upon his return, he took a job at a TV station and, in his free time, began making short films full of anti-establishment attitudes. In 1969, he signed on with the Commonwealth Film Unit as an assistant cameraman and production designer, which led to opportunities to direct a number of short films and eventually features.Weir's contribution to the Australian film renaissance of the late 1970s lay in his ability to portray the imminent disruption
