Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

In 1995 his film Silent Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Career
Beresford returned to Australia in 1970 to make his first feature film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and spent the next 10 years working in Australia's developing film industry. k.

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.