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For Art's Sake - A Century of Cinema
Television (Full Length) – 1996
In this excerpt from the 1996 TV One arts series, presenter Alison Parr interviews the NZ Film Commission's longtime marketing director Lindsay Shelton about the international success of Kiwi films. Shelton attributes the recent popularity of Once Were Warriors and Heavenly Creatures to Kiwi stories being different and new — "everything in our films was unexpected". Roger Donaldson, Geoff Murphy, Jane Campion and Peter Jackson are mentioned, with special note of Jackson's "confidence and wish" to stay in New Zealand's "tiny as well as fragile" film industry.
Heavenly Creatures is a most exhilarating movie showing the power of imagination and the strength of a friendship, running amok a bit, but nevertheless, the amazing features of Heavenly Creatures are in fact the imagination of Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh and their special effects team.– Lindsay Shelton
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