Local Content
There are several agencies charged with providing funding for local films and television.
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New Zealand Film Commission
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Creative New Zealand
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New Zealand On Air
ISSUE : Should the government give taxpayers’ money to locally made films and television programmes?
Viewpoints
No. There’s enough to do with our taxpayers’ money without spending it on films and television programmes.We need better transport systems, a better health system and a superannuation scheme that starts No. The films we make here are no good anyway because the budgets are so small.Films are only any good if they have a lot of special effects and a lot of action. What can you make for $5 million? The amount the funding bodies contribute is piffling. |
Yes. It’s part of the government’s job to support local culture.The funding bodies support films that have content and a flavour. We have other bodies that support the other arts in the same way and that’s a good thing. Not everything is about money!! Yes. It’s really hard for film-makers like me to get films made and the government needs to support us.Film is the most expensive story-telling art form and it’s perfectly reasonable to expect support from taxpayers’ money when you’re producing culture. If we all had to fund our own films or rely entirely on production companies |