Peter Jackson’s report was wrong: NZFC
Questioned by Labour MP David Parker at a Parliamentary select committee, New Zealand Film Commission chairwoman Patsy Reddy said she did not believe last year’s independent review of the NZFC – conducted by Peter jackson and the director of the AFTRS Centre for Screen Business, David Court – was right.
“The tone of the comments clearly indicates that a very real problem exists between the commission and its client base, this is not only a lack of trust it would appear that both sides have lost respect for the other,” said Parker, but Reddy replied she doesn’t “believe that that is the situation, and we’ve been told by many that that may have been the situation but it is not the case now.”
Jackson’s report indicated that some practitioners “feel the Commission is a barrier to their filmmaking aspirations”.
According to The New Zealand Herald, Reddy said some of those who critisised the NZFC when the report was published in July 2010, “did not see the same problems under the NZFC’s new regime”.
“We started off last year with a round of meetings with the industry to discuss our relationship with the industry. Those were pretty successful by and large. We’ve also undertaken to have annual online assessments so that the industry can give us feedback in a neutral environment. We’ve just taken on a communications assistant… because one of the things we’ve realised, being a fairly small agency, we really didn’t have someone who was focusing on communicating with our stakeholders,” said Reddy.
The chairwoman added that the agency now had a more centralised focus on “picking winners” to fund.
