Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Levelling the Playing Field https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address tim https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=304076#post304076 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=304076#post304076 From a Hollywood/LA viewpoint

http://www.dailynews.com/business/20140104/why-tv-film-production-is-running-away-from-hollywood

]]> Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:48:32 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303730#post303730 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303730#post303730 From an Aussie viewpoint, which appears to play the "Mexicans with cellphones" card...

The Conversation: Did the New Zealand film industry just eat our lunch?

]]> Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:05:30 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303687#post303687 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303687#post303687 there’s a significant audience out there.

Yeah, a couple of companies Youku and QQ launched pay versions (first 10 mins free) this year but we and I imagine most people would simply choose another film and wait a couple of months -when in Rome.

All free?

Some of those multinational…

]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:46:28 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303686#post303686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303686#post303686 all big players with multinational advertisers.
Hoping Jonathan can chime in- is there an income stream in this? (I'm not imagining it'd be huge – I believe Google pay about US$200 for a million youtube views, though that's not the same as feature films).
Still interesting to know there's a…

]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:32:50 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303685#post303685 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303685#post303685 Yes, and these are not on shitty websites reserved for most recent US releases . The top hit for Black Sheep is on Baidu player, Baidu being ‘China’s Google’, many of the other links are on either tudou or 56 or PSS, all big players with multinational advertisers.

If something…

]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:16:36 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303684#post303684 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303684#post303684 Your films alone have well over 1M views Jonathan.
Wow! That's fascinating. All free?

]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:12:49 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303683#post303683 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303683#post303683 Youku-Tudou Launches ‘Sharing Plan’. I assumed something must be in place, as plenty of New Zealand films are still available for free while US releases are becoming increasingly restricted. Given the FTA I assumed there… ]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:06:23 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303524#post303524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303524#post303524 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:11:06 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303522#post303522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303522#post303522 That's awesome!

I'm interested to know, is much money being made off the versions of Black Sheep and Under the Mountain we're watching for free online in China?

]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:46:19 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303516#post303516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303516#post303516 Take a bow, Mr King

I have to do something with all my spare time ... ;-)

]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:33:36 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303513#post303513 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303513#post303513 Take a bow, Mr King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA0RNvZivwc

]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:38:02 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303507#post303507 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303507#post303507 via Gemma Gracewood on twitter: Ted Hope- “I am no longer going to produce films for a living”

I was just coming here to post this same thing. The producer of __The Ice Storm, In the Bedroom, 21 Grams, Adventureland, Martha Marcy May Marlene, American Splendour, Happiness, Flirt, Safe, The…

]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:49:47 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303505#post303505 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303505#post303505 On the other hand, it points out the Treasury view on film finance policy, and that other industries in the same boat didn’t get similar red-carpet treatment.

I’ll make much the same observation I made about the Herald’s editorial. Isn’t it funny how the tax breaks, loopholes and *cough* creative…

]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:16:39 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303501#post303501 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303501#post303501 slightly more nuanced than the Granny, describing the Avatar deal as swallowing a ‘dead rat’. On the one hand, it has a vested interest in the film dollars flowing into Wellington and out-bidding other countries for said film dollars. On the other hand, it points out the… ]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:06:19 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303498#post303498 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303498#post303498 "I am no longer going to produce films for a living" ]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:42:41 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303488#post303488 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303488#post303488 The Weight of Elephants has not yet had a broad release beyond the NZIFF — as neither has the NZ reworking of Romeo and Juliet ]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:42:32 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303485#post303485 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303485#post303485 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:49:15 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303481#post303481 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303481#post303481 I’m cautiously optimistic about the Avatar sequels deal. While the film industry has been granted a stay of execution, what it needs most is a succession plan, and on the surface of it, the right noises are being made.

But Prostetnic Vogon Joyce is having his latest black-is-white moment when…

]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:13:21 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303473#post303473 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303473#post303473 Irony Deficiency Watch from (where else?) The Herald: Latest sell out to Hollywood further delays self reliance.

*cough* foreign-owned tax hypocrites *cough*

]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:39:11 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303466#post303466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303466#post303466 I know this is going to ruffle a lot of cultural nationalist feathers, but does New Zealand pay enough attention to the other c-word: CO-PRODUCTION?

Once again, it brings to mind Bryan Adams' stoush with the CRTC over his collaboration with Mutt Lange.

]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:14:29 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303457#post303457 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303457#post303457 The Weight of Elephants – which I thought was a damn fine, and much under-rated, local film despite the participation of the Danish Film Institute & Lars von Trier’s company, Zenotropa.… ]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:32:33 +1300 Chaz Harris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303452#post303452 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303452#post303452 I'd rather be paternalised by the most commercially successful filmmaker in the world than some locals who don't have that kind of track record.

It's now going to be up to NZ to capitalise on that advisory board, add more major players to it and then have a funding system…

]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:52:49 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303448#post303448 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303448#post303448 Thanks Geoff- will definitely try to catch Nebraska and keep an eye open for the others (did get to Blue Jasmine.)
The question of distribution again. I’d love to be able to buy some of these films online. Watched Patu last night- meant to just watch half, as it was…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:38:57 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303446#post303446 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303446#post303446 Rob; in his list of 1-29, the ones I know of to have a NZ release are:
To the Wonder
Upstream Color
A Touch of Sin
The Bling Ring
Nebraska. (Saw a preview last week--a cracker of a film)
Blue Jasmine

I guess others are on their way, I am…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:33:37 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303444#post303444 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303444#post303444 starting the building of smaller niches where we can function without betting the farm on one big project

Doesn't have to be zero-sum. Encourage more funding of the smaller projects as well. May need to change the government to get that, but start the lobbying now.

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:23:59 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303443#post303443 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303443#post303443 the distinctiveness of cinema

snooty auteurism is so original. pfft

Snootyness is in good supply, anyway :)

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:20:59 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303442#post303442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303442#post303442 the distinctiveness of cinema

his snooty auteurism is so original.
#pfft

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:19:40 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303440#post303440 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303440#post303440 Richard Brody of the NYer on the distinctiveness of cinema- and his pick of the year's best.
How many of them have been shown here? How would one begin to get hold of them?

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:12:58 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303428#post303428 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303428#post303428 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:21:31 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303425#post303425 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303425#post303425 I’d pick Bill in a moment.
Though I’d have to check- still might have that contract out on him from back in the 80s, when it was apparent he had the world’s best job, and wasn’t going to give it up :)
(Not entirely relevant anecdote: visited Bill in Wellington…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:06:59 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303424#post303424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303424#post303424 This doesn’t make better NZ films, it cripples better NZ filmmakers into learning how to make Hollywood films (or other parts of the commercial screen sector, yes), or going into the deep underground like i did.

With all due and sincere respect, Campbell, perhaps you are being pre-emptively dismissive. Maybe,…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:57:46 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303421#post303421 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303421#post303421 i’m not sure how this increased focus on marketing work will help in terms of developing NZ content.
Seems a reasonable line to me. In fact, I’d take a punt the ‘screen advisory board’ will not help anyone much do anything.
Maybe NZ can cement a place as the makers…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:43:37 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303393#post303393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303393#post303393 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:40:30 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303390#post303390 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303390#post303390 cinemas as gathering places must become much more, or simply different.
As in The Kentucky Fried Movie ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mypS7VfwZLI

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:22:44 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303389#post303389 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303389#post303389 So, not just exploitation, but also paternalism!

Or it might actually of substantial benefit to some young film-makers who wish to take their work to the world.

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:06:50 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303386#post303386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303386#post303386 Indeed, if anyone was uncertain about their position, today would provide some kind of... clarity? Business as usual, including misleading noises. I especially liked two clauses in the agreement:

a featurette on New Zealand being included in DVDs and Blu Rays.

and

An offer by James Cameron and Jon Landau…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:47:51 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303381#post303381 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303381#post303381 FYI the subsidy is being increased and some pigs are more equal than other pigs

Sounds like electioneering rather than a strategy to me...

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:23:08 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303376#post303376 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303376#post303376 Further if we use the model i think you’re suggesting, it becomes destructive towards innovation: we are only following trends ...

For a small player like NZ, this is very destructive of our ability to produce content of our own choice. To work in this way involves competing in a…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:55:27 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303364#post303364 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303364#post303364 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:49:48 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303359#post303359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303359#post303359 many art house/independent cinema offer a different experience

Yeah I can see that happening more. If technology makes the actual experience of the content better for an individual, then cinemas as gathering places must become much more, or simply different.

But in the same way that music shifted from a…

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:26:23 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303357#post303357 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303357#post303357 launch app alongside their music. ]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:22:35 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303355#post303355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303355#post303355 Maybe really seeing how these markets have changed might be a good way to understand how to produce them? Right now the ‘way to produce things’ seems strongly linked to how markets used to work … And people are just willing it to go back to how it was …… ]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:50:24 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303338#post303338 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303338#post303338 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:54:42 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303336#post303336 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303336#post303336 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:38:28 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303335#post303335 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303335#post303335 Humans are social creatures and we have a deep and abiding need to gather in public or semi-public places, to experience ...

Very true. But films/cinema are not the only social gathering and I can think of a lot more social activities than sitting in rows in the dark staring…

]]> Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:38:33 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303334#post303334 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303334#post303334 "cord cutters". And I happen to be one of them. ]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 23:45:56 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303332#post303332 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303332#post303332 we will all be individuals, heads-down, staring at little screens with tinny audio. I believe that the second century of cinema will a long and rich one.

Of anyone here I thought you might be open to the idea or even an owner of a home projector, I’ve had a…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:15:45 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303331#post303331 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303331#post303331 I believe that the second century of cinema will a long and rich one.

Have you been to one recently? Long most films are indeed and, while I'm not sure about rich, they're certainly expensive. But there's no mistaking the fact that what plays in cinemas now is markedly different…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:05:43 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303330#post303330 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303330#post303330 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:55:06 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303328#post303328 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303328#post303328 To determine how to analyse their market is not the same as understanding how best to produce them. This kind of blur effect is one of the main problems with understanding cultural production in a market based system.

Maybe really seeing how these markets have changed might be a good…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:58:57 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303327#post303327 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303327#post303327 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:08:39 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303326#post303326 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303326#post303326 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:42:35 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303325#post303325 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303325#post303325 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:37:41 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303320#post303320 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303320#post303320 Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:24:20 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303319#post303319 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303319#post303319 the lines between them are almost entirely dissolved these days


Hmmm. The lines between selling them have mostly dissolved, but the way they are made has not. To determine how to analyse their market is not the same as understanding how best to produce them. This kind of blur effect…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:44:41 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303295#post303295 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303295#post303295 the lines between them are almost entirely dissolved these days

exactly, and it has been interesting hearing the discussion taking that into account.

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 11:22:59 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303293#post303293 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303293#post303293 cinema is one subset of screen content in the same way as television or internet are

Yes – but the lines between them are almost entirely dissolved these days …

And thinking of the future – at some point the watching experience will be better using a personal device than…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:33:51 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303292#post303292 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303292#post303292 I’d like to thank the British and Australian taxpayers who (however indirectly) put money in the pockets of every Kiwi employed on Top of The Lake. Thanks, Screen Australia & the British Broadcasting Corporation!

It's a very good point and a really good reason to not close our investment borders so…

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:31:12 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303291#post303291 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303291#post303291 cinema is one subset of screen content in the same way as television or internet are

Yes — but the lines between them are almost entirely dissolved these days ...

]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:22:25 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303269#post303269 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303269#post303269 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:37:09 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303255#post303255 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303255#post303255 Also, it seems clear to me that the success of Mount Zion was partly related to its use of music, which brought in an audience that might not otherwise venture to a small, local film.

On the other hand, you have Roseanne Liang, two feature films under her belt, currently…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:39:10 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303251#post303251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303251#post303251 Just as another thought, if I do see my taxes used to create more content then personally I am much less interested in seeing big films made here that have little or no creative input from New Zealanders.

With all due and sincere respect, Bart, I’d like to thank the…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:15:47 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303242#post303242 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303242#post303242 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:25:37 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303229#post303229 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303229#post303229 Hi Russell

Are there other ways? Depends what you need to get from it, as always. There are good community oriented structures for watching and talking about film – I am very fond of Wellington's People's Cinema (run by a different Jonathan King) as a really engaged space to screen…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:55:21 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303227#post303227 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303227#post303227 But the TV channel that paid for the production has given up on that content – because I and others chose not to watch it on the media they wanted me to use.

So here’s the question, “How do I as a consumer get my dollar to the creators of…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:52:37 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303224#post303224 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303224#post303224 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:51:17 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303223#post303223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303223#post303223 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:51:07 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303219#post303219 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303219#post303219 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:19:35 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303215#post303215 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303215#post303215 Bearing in mind that I barely have a creative bone in my body and can only speak as a consumer.

Isn't part of the problem the change in consumption? The music industry changed because consumers changed the way they listen and are still changing the way they listen. The book…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:04:39 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303203#post303203 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303203#post303203 it’s not just an issue NZ faces.
In LA they have created a ‘film Czar’ to try and stop the flow of productions being made outside LA.

LA’s “problem” is exactly what our industry is desperate to have happen, and what the increase in subsidies is trying to achieve: productions…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:37:19 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303201#post303201 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303201#post303201 And one thing that’s happened with the changes in that sector is that form has changed along with format.

I think this is a very important point / concept. The feature film is the size it is cos that’s what you could have people pay to sit in a theatre…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:32:52 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303200#post303200 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303200#post303200 This just in:

Innovative new projects to excite and engage online audiences

13 December 2013
Fresh support from NZ On Air’s Digital Media Fund will bring six innovative projects to online audiences.
The latest funding round saw 61 applications to the Kickstart fund for transmedia projects and 54 applications for…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:11:43 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303197#post303197 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303197#post303197 This is important. My experience is that New Zealand's cinema culture is very thin and very conservative, compared to, say, our music community. Our greatest strength is in technical ingenuity, but as a culture we lack the slightest sophistication around different possibilities of how films can be made.

Made and…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:59:41 +1300 Ken Sparks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303195#post303195 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303195#post303195 Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria Uni. She has found it challenging but stimulating and enjoyable and she was full of praise for Ken Duncum's input. It'll be really… ]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:56:06 +1300 Sue https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303191#post303191 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303191#post303191 it's not just an issue NZ faces.
In LA they have created a 'film Czar' to try and stop the flow of productions being made outside LA.
Breaking Bad as an example filmed in Albuquerque because tax incentives offered were impossible to turn down.

It's not a uniquely NZ problem

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:48:29 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303187#post303187 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303187#post303187 I guess if a programme gets 0.5% of the US audience, it will bring in similar money to one that gets 50% of the NZ audience. So HBO can afford to fund things that are a lot more niche than TVNZ can?

HBO is in a different position in that…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:31:41 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303186#post303186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303186#post303186 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:31:44 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303183#post303183 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303183#post303183 John Barnett, writing in the Herald, lists the benefits of attracting offshore screen production but proposes a key change to the LBSPG scheme:

But the Government could take a leaf out of the Australian/German/Canadian incentive schemes, where a portion of the incentive is only available to an actual locally domiciled producer.…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:30:35 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303180#post303180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303180#post303180 And let's be honest, there would have been a shitstorm of intergalactic proportions if NZ on Air has put a penny in a show set and shot in New York.

It brings to mind the controversy over the CRTC refusing to classify Bryan Adams' Waking Up The Neighbours as Canadian…

]]> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 02:06:26 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303179#post303179 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303179#post303179 And let's be honest, there would have been a shitstorm of intergalactic proportions if NZ on Air has put a penny in a show set and shot in New York.

I believe they did pitch a show to NZ TV before they went to NY. It was set in NY…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:55:36 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303175#post303175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303175#post303175 Lots to think about here. Really appreciate Jonathan and Campbell's take on the state of film-making in NZ. (Looking forward to seeking out some of your films.)
It's a confusing time- it's never been so good (the technology is cheap and readily available- and distribution is almost frictionless), or so…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:47:03 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303174#post303174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303174#post303174 How else to explain the overseas popularity of NZ-made shows like Wild South and Flight of the Conchords, when our TV networks didn’t want to know about them first up?

I don't know if Flight of the Conchords is a very good example because 1) it was created in collaboration…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:31:22 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303170#post303170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303170#post303170 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:45:39 +1300 Chaz Harris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303167#post303167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303167#post303167 I'll chime in here and say that as much as I'd like to tell some NZ stories one day, they would be passion projects not designed to make money and purely funded from profits off mainstream internationally appealing content I've made.

I don't know how alone I am in this,…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:49:04 +1300 Jonathan King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303165#post303165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303165#post303165 in the money) with everything you're saying. ]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:19:15 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303164#post303164 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303164#post303164 That expansion can lead to large markets for niche products.Sounds like a dream for Kiwi creative businesses.But, there's a monetisation problem.

Ah – product placement – there's the answer – we need to get the NZ tourism industry to kick in every time we show a mountain or a geyser…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:27:17 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303161#post303161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303161#post303161 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:56:01 +1300 Campbell Walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303160#post303160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303160#post303160 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:47:59 +1300 bluebook https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303159#post303159 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303159#post303159 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:18:30 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303158#post303158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303158#post303158 http://cinemasofnz.info) but they tend to operate on a uncoordinated, individual basis… ]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:27:01 +1300 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303157#post303157 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303157#post303157 A big one.

and one many of us face, whether it's in software, journalism, the arts or music.

I believe there is a role here for much more solid public financing of NZ content. I'm not much of a TV watcher but my view is the Māori TV is demonstrating…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:06:29 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303156#post303156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303156#post303156 But, there’s a monetisation problem.

A big one.

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:53:54 +1300 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303155#post303155 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303155#post303155 This is an interesting and insightful article. Thanks.

If I understand correctly, technology has meant that the costs of production have dropped massively. This has created opportunity for new entrants (which surely the cam-corder did a couple of decades ago) but the real kicker is that the distribution opportunities have…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:42:31 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303150#post303150 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303150#post303150 On top of that, the Weinstein Bros are suing Warners for what appears to be Hollywood accounting practices.

To be fair, and precise, the crux of this lawsuit appears to be over the interpretation of the language of a contract which further complicated the already tangled films rights in The…

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:14:29 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303149#post303149 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303149#post303149 I hope we can find a way forward

Got any ideas?

]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:13:14 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303148#post303148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303148#post303148 suing Warners for what appears to be Hollywood accounting practices. Sir PJ's been there before. ]]> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:41:34 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303147#post303147 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-levelling-the-playing-field/?p=303147#post303147 Discussion from blog post.

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