This is an historic weekend for New Zealand cinema. Three New Zealand feature films have opened in cinemas to great reviews. And as far as I know the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC), our state funder, did not invest in the development or production of any of them, although I understand that it contributed to post-production costs for two. There’s Operation 8 , directed by Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright: There's Hook Line & Sinker , directed by Andrea Bosshard and Shane Loader: And there's Stephen Kang’s Desert , which premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival last year: (And Stephen Kang’s short Blue , also independently made, has been selected in Competition at Cannes, for La Semaine de la Critique). Exciting times. But they’ve been coming for a while, and they reflect exciting times in global cinema. Feature films developed and produced outside the NZFC have well outnumbered those made with NZFC support for some years now, and it was inevi...
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