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Someone Else's Country

Film (Full Length) – 1996

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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

Alister Barry

Writer, Director

Shane Loader

Camera, Editor

Tony Sutorius

Camera, Sound

Ian Johnstone

Narrator

David Donaldson

Composer

Tony Parkinson

Sound

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Produced by

Vanguard Films
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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Interview with director Alister Barry, Beamafilm website, August 2022