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Someone Else's Country
Film (Full Length) – 1996
Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government — where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free-market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
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Vanguard Films
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Community Media Trust
Source
Community Media Trust
Acknowledgements
Made with the assistance of the Creative Film and Video Fund of the Arts Council.
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