NZ+Film+Studies

=back to unit 10314= = = == **Tena koutou** Greetings. NEW ZEALAND FILM STUDIES

Commercial film ( New Zealand

http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/John+Barnett 2014 was dubbed the 'golden year' of New Zealand film See independent producers

http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/INDEPENDENT+PRODUCERS New Zealand's film industry is gearing up for a bumper year as the government's sweeter incentives lures foreign projects and boosts domestic productions, according to New Zealand Film Commission chief executive Dave Gibson. Cabinet Ministers Steven Joyce and Chris Finlayson last year sweetened New Zealand's film scheme, lifting the incentives paid, as part of a move to put the local industry on a stronger footing and insulate it from lulls between blockbusters. That helped lock in 20th Century Fox to greenlight James Cameron's three // Avatar //movies to be produced in New Zealand, and Gibson says it's re-injected life into industry that had been in a downturn. "There was this quite quiet period for a couple of years where the industry really was in a lull, then the government increased the incentives, and straightaway you can see a difference," Gibson told BusinessDesk. "I think it has been a pretty close to a perfect result in the short-medium term that we can see. You really couldn't have asked for a better kind of pick up or take up on it. Dave. Gibson. 2015.CEO of The New Zealand Film Commission.

what is national cinema? read an old history book ( 1995) to get some back history. The History of Film. by David Parkinson. Access from the Hagley Library: film section What is cinema? What motivates cinema? From where does cinema come? How does cinema happen? What is the difference between NZ cinema and other cinema? Is there any?

Think about New Zealand factual films. This tradition of making non-fiction was inspired in all Commonwealth countries by the Scott, John Grierson. The New Zealand Film Unit was set up in 1948. Look these films up at the Archive http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/

Time to think about significant Directors.

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What is New Zealand Cinema? Do we live in an era beyond nationalism - life not as a patriot game( think of the impacts of global economy here ) Nationalist thought is a coveted feeling. Such a feeling is carried within ex-patriots all over the globe. It is a concept based upon an ideology of peoples pride in New Zealand as a country. It has emerged from being a colonial past that had an historical allegiance to Britain. Now it has a post- colonial set of relations and ideals. For example, New Zealand is founded upon Bi-culturalism. ( Read below )

in the early 20th Century there was an assimilation model used by the New Zealand Society towards tangata whenua that did not embrace Te Reo. Barry Barclay was an early advocate for the preservation and rekindling of Te Reo. Here is one poem on the theme of identity and a provisional power-point on tikanga. Consider, also, Maori television and TV channels 1 and 7. http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/aenj.1.2.Murphy.pdf

Bicultural New Zealand Multicultural New Zealand A principle consideration in grasping what New Zealand is is to understand the implications of the Treaty of Waitangi. For the early centuries of the name New Zealand the country was established to be a bi-cultural nation. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/the-new-zealanders/12 Patterns of migration have expanded our sense of self from as far back to Kupe through American Whalers, Chinese goldminers, British entrepeneurs, trades people and settlers,the Jewish diaspora, Indian merchants, European artisans and intellectuals to a world we see now of poliglots of cultures, particularly in the last fourty years. There is an increased Pasifika, increased Asia, pockets of wars have created refugee migrations. All migrants who become citizens learn to abide by laws of this land. Laws of legality come from Westminster. Laws of tikanga come from whole world view.

Ways to lives in a society

Maori values and practices Mana It is difficult to give mana a single meaning in English. A common explanation is to refer to it as 'status' or to describe someone with mana as having some sort of 'presence'. Mana was inherited, but individuals could acquire, increase or lose mana through particular deeds or actions. Maori recognised the need to maintain mana to the highest degree, especially amongst rangatira or chiefs. Mana influenced the way that people and groups behaved, and it acted as a reference point for achievements and successes. Maori vigorously defended mana in everyday matters and tried to enhance it whenever possible. Sometimes the defence of mana led to an excessive response to an action. Control or patronage over European traders (or after 1814 missionaries) was very much part of the pursuit of mana. Maori spoke of 'our Pakeha'. If there was some advantage to be gained through access to these new arrivals, a rival could not be allowed to reap these benefits unchallenged.

Tapu
Maori life was also restricted through the placing of tapu on people and things. Tapu controlled how people behaved towards each other and the environment. It protected people and natural resources. Almost every activity, ceremonial or otherwise, was connected to the maintenance and enhancement of mana and tapu. Crucial to this was the concept of utu.

The trajectory of films made in New Zealand is a tale of critical masses of energy concentrated in film at times.This patterning could be described as moments such as a New Zealand exploited - visited upon by entrepeneurs from Hollywood. e.g. //**Green Dolphin Street**//(1947), experimenters and feature films made with neo-European sensibilities e.g.Campion ( 1962 - 90) and recent Pacific stories ( 1995 - current day. e.g. //**No 2, Sione's Wedding, The Tattooist,Apron Strings, Boy**// ) set against an overall drift of individuals to individual opportunity to California or Australia(,Campion,Tamahuri to Jeffs ) and exceptions who work at home ( Sample. Ian Mune, Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi( Cohen) Gaylene Preston )

=** New Zealand Film Studies has been a category of academia based in London, England until 2010. A decade long course has, apparently, recently lost funding. There is always a link between government, money and messages. What is this new development saying to academia? See recent article: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408167 **= Ian Conrich and Suart Murray editied a book at the London University (available in the city public library) They divided New Zealand cinema into parts:- **the pioneers** Feature films started to be made in 1975( Roger Donaldson, **//Sleeping Dogs//**(975) with some post world War 11 attempts preceding. Before New Zealand cinema New Zealanders watched Hollywood films and British films.

- the New Wave in the 1970's

Tangata whenua. The strengths of media for Tangata Whenua have become prevalent on Television and Film. New Zealand born peoples identify as being from here. This is a local world experience with it's own cosmology. It gives people a sense of self.( Examples: kapa haka,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapa_haka ) use of electronic banking, experience as people who live with earthquakes, experience as descendants from migrations from Europe and the Pacific)
 * What is the NEW WAVE? This was a political and cultural uprising in the 1970's**

We explore our sense of identity through our ancestors, our relationship to land, people, customs and histories. Cinema and television play a role in making representation of some of this sense of identity with respect and sensitivity. =Barry Barclay= Barry Barclay was a producer from Pacific Films. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Shea_(director)

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WHO HAS BEEN TO WETA WORKSHOP?

Weta Digital handles post-production of BIG films with international budgets as well as much New Zealand Post-production on contract. One BIG Post contract was LOTR and THE HOBBIT

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Someone had to kick-start an industry. Who were some of the figures? Look at the NZ Honours Board

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