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Soundbyte from Runaway from on location filming.
Insert from Peter Wells interview.
Insert from Rudall Hayward interview discussing My Lady of the Cave, written by H.T. Gibson, filmed on Mayor Island, Frank Stewart cameraman and processor, tinting and toning is mentioned and the reasons for selecting this story. Rewi’s Last Stand made in 1925 and again in 1938, talks about how the two are different. Music and voiceover discussing NZ Film, (sounds like it could be from the 1940’s).
John O’Shea discusses why we initially needed to represent ourselves ‘ficticiously’ on film. Mentions Robert Steele who made trade films. Mentions Broken Barrier and film producer Roger Mirams. Radio voiceover introducing Roger Mirams who discusses Broken Barrier. Mirams discusses how the film came about. Music insert.
O’Shea talks about financing NZ films particularly features, he says without them you ‘imperil your identity’. Soundbite from a film cast talking about their experience of being on a film set and working with a director etc.
Young filmmaker talking about the NZ film industry mentions Paul Maunder and O’Shea. Mentions The God Boy and Gone up North for a While, A State of Siege and Geoff Murphy working as the boom operator. O’Shea talks about the 70’s film industry and telling stories in a dramatic way. Trailer from Solo.
O’Shea discusses time when people were seeing a need for a NZ Film Council or Commission and finally in 1976-77 they gave the go ahead to plan the Commission and in 1979 it was set in action and was the interim NZ Film Commission. Quotes Alan Highet the minister at the time.
Soundbite from Goodbye Pork Pie. Soundbite from Utu. Trailer for Smash Palace.
Peter Wells discusses the first wave of NZ film and gives his own perception of those films.
Bridget Ikin interview insert says our film making is in the “... Frank Sargeson mode of realism”, she goes on to discuss the her perception of the white neurotic film industry, and the films of white New Zealanders. She compares them to Maori film making and storytelling. Talks about the lack of cultural depth in Pakeha films.
Trailer for Sleeping Dogs.
Peter Wells talks about the work of Alison Mclean, Jane Campion and Merata Mita and how they have ‘shown up’ the fallacy of NZ being a country where we struggle to find identity. Wells mentions that the majority of cinema goers are women and gay men. American woman talking about why she thinks NZ have a large core of excellent women filmmakers.
Jane Campion soundbite. Trailer from Jane Campion’s An Angel at my Table.
John O’Shea insert talking about the new breed of film makers.
Peter Wells discussing the Film Commission and budgeting in NZ films. O’Shea talking about financing in the mid 80’s. Jane Campion interview insert discussing the pleasure of being able to work in NZ rather than the U.S.
Broadcast 13/08/1993.