== Production ==
The film was an original idea of Cowan's:
<blockquote>I was living in the bush, in [[Berowra Waters]], and it was so powerful. I happened to read this French science-fiction story called [[Les Guerrieres]] about a future society of women - like an Amazon society - who were at war with the rest of society. Somehow in the combination of the wildness and strangeness and beauty of the bush and this story of wild women, I saw a parallel in how we perceived the bush and how the British first saw the bush as ugly. Well, we now see it as beautiful. And how the sort of excesses of radical feminism, when it began, were seen as ugly - ranting and raving and being abusive and so on. But, in fact, behind it were very beautiful things - not just the women, but the humanist ideas.ref</blockquote>
Cowan wrote the screenplay with producer John Wiley and playwright [[Dorothy Hewett]]. Funding came from private investment, the [[Australian Film Commission]] and a $25,000 grant from the Experimental Film Fund.ref
The film was shot over six weeks in 1976 near , north of Sydney, on 16mm.ref Shooting was a turbulent experience, in part because everyone was living together on location and there were fierce arguments between Cowan and the cast over the direction the film was taking.ref
