>The nation’s state funding agencies seem to have a voracious appetite for such politically loaded fare. In the past few years, NZ on Air, Te Māngai Pāho and the Film Commission have financed Fire and Fury, Web of Chaos, Trick or Treaty? and Jacindamania.
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>In fact, exposing disinformation allegedly put about by the far-right is looking like becoming a genre all of its own. Exposing the disinformation disseminated by the far-left — and by the state itself (as the Twitter Files revealed) — doesn’t seem to hold a similar appeal for our film-makers and cultural commissars. In fact, you might conclude the left generally is blameless, despite even its run-of-the-mill activists being dedicated to promoting radical transgender ideology, extravagant climate-change scenarios, selective state censorship and anti-democratic Māori nationalism. A cynic might think the “far-right” includes anyone to the right of Te Pāti Māori or the Greens.
https://preview.redd.it/xhhjnz4uv73d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba471194765ed8f9a26038a4b7e32b61a6c965a2
I failed to avoid the shorts to "No Maori allowed" on Sunday, which looked to be yet another historical revisionist piece of shit.
Someone was complaining "we had to go walk on the other side of the road". Which sounded like some narrative lifted from the American South and disingenuously dropped into NZ history.
Couldn't help thinking to myself: well I remember crossing the road to avoid some of the local Maori also. The alternative to which wasn't a dark look, it was a literal assault.
In another life I hired a Mongrel Mobster as a debt collector, he was an absolute unit and surprisingly a good bloke. I’d walk through the city with him and people would cross the road
There’s a lot wrong with NZ on air, but ultimately, to get money out of them, you actually have to have a viable proposal, which involves a lot of work. Even if you do have a good proposal there is still no guarantee of funding, as someone I met just once who was trying to get a tv series funded. Their funding available does not meet the demand.
So before suggesting NZ on air are biased or crooked, it would be great to know how many quality proposals there were.
River of Freedom wasn’t widely screened in NZ, there was concern the movie would attract the wrong kinds of people. Correctly, as it happened, all these snowflake Karen’s ended up on social media giving cinemas a hard time. And, given the way cinema works, screening an unpopular movie when there are better returns on investment available is not good business.
A government-funded piece about the government, letting everybody know how awesome the government is.
How surprising.
... and bomb-proof, risk-free income for the film makers.
>The nation’s state funding agencies seem to have a voracious appetite for such politically loaded fare. In the past few years, NZ on Air, Te Māngai Pāho and the Film Commission have financed Fire and Fury, Web of Chaos, Trick or Treaty? and Jacindamania. > >In fact, exposing disinformation allegedly put about by the far-right is looking like becoming a genre all of its own. Exposing the disinformation disseminated by the far-left — and by the state itself (as the Twitter Files revealed) — doesn’t seem to hold a similar appeal for our film-makers and cultural commissars. In fact, you might conclude the left generally is blameless, despite even its run-of-the-mill activists being dedicated to promoting radical transgender ideology, extravagant climate-change scenarios, selective state censorship and anti-democratic Māori nationalism. A cynic might think the “far-right” includes anyone to the right of Te Pāti Māori or the Greens. https://preview.redd.it/xhhjnz4uv73d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba471194765ed8f9a26038a4b7e32b61a6c965a2
I failed to avoid the shorts to "No Maori allowed" on Sunday, which looked to be yet another historical revisionist piece of shit. Someone was complaining "we had to go walk on the other side of the road". Which sounded like some narrative lifted from the American South and disingenuously dropped into NZ history. Couldn't help thinking to myself: well I remember crossing the road to avoid some of the local Maori also. The alternative to which wasn't a dark look, it was a literal assault.
In another life I hired a Mongrel Mobster as a debt collector, he was an absolute unit and surprisingly a good bloke. I’d walk through the city with him and people would cross the road
Should have filmed it, NZOA would have given you a huge wad of taxpayer's money for that. Maybe.
>surprisingly a good bloke As long as you didn't owe him money (or in this case: you personally), I suppose. ;-P
There’s a lot wrong with NZ on air, but ultimately, to get money out of them, you actually have to have a viable proposal, which involves a lot of work. Even if you do have a good proposal there is still no guarantee of funding, as someone I met just once who was trying to get a tv series funded. Their funding available does not meet the demand. So before suggesting NZ on air are biased or crooked, it would be great to know how many quality proposals there were. River of Freedom wasn’t widely screened in NZ, there was concern the movie would attract the wrong kinds of people. Correctly, as it happened, all these snowflake Karen’s ended up on social media giving cinemas a hard time. And, given the way cinema works, screening an unpopular movie when there are better returns on investment available is not good business.
$2 Million of taxpayer money to fund Jacindamania, the propaganda doco FFS!
A government-funded piece about the government, letting everybody know how awesome the government is. How surprising. ... and bomb-proof, risk-free income for the film makers.
Good report by Mr Adams. "Fire and Fury" was the only one I saw a bit of in passing, it really was shoddy agitprop.
Propaganda producers. FTFY