Cinema

Television (Full Length) – 1981

Screening as Goodbye Pork Pie packed cinemas and gave hope that Kiwi films were here to stay, this 1981 TV documentary attempts to combine history lesson with some crystal ball gazing on what might lie ahead for the newly reborn film industry. Host Ian Johnstone wonders if three local movies per year might be a "fairly ambitious" target; producer John Barnett argues for the upside of overseas filmmakers shooting downunder. Also interviewed: Pork Pie director Geoff Murphy, veteran producer John O'Shea, and the NZ Film Commission's first Chairman, Bill Sheat.

What the Film Commission has done is really released the forces which were already in existence in the community. There were people there wanting to make films. What we've done is make it possible for them to get ahead with making the films.
– NZ Film Commission chairman Bill Sheat