Archive for February, 2009
Distractions
I've been down in the fair city of Dunedin for most of the week, where among other things I was doing some filming for a doco I'm making. Our venerable director (of Moon) meanwhile has been shovelling snow in the...
Arthur
The story of Arthur, hero of The Insatiable Moon, is based on a real character I knew in Ponsonby. He...
Buckets
Director Gillies Mackinnon and I have been having a bit of banter. He's in the process of reading the latest (and...
Rawiri
Last week I drove up to Auckland to have a coffee with Rawiri Paratene, who will play the lead role...
A New Role
As part of the new deal, I've taken up the position of NZ producer of the film, through my production...
Give Us A Green
The year (2008) trundled on. In May it had seemed that we were closing. Now we were marooned for lack...
A Not Quite Done Deal
In order to access NZ Film Commission funding, we needed one small piece of the jigsaw to be in place...
Two Into One
The smallest of fishhooks. One of the things we did in Cannes was meet with the NZ Film Commission's development...
Yes We Cannes!
2008 - six years since we got under way. Things are looking good. The NZ Film Commission finally comes on...
Wales Rider
The Bradley Boys (now NZ producers) make an application to NZ Film Commission for some script funding. Despite having prime...
of place and emotional power, in a
moving, original movie that
deserves to be seen."
