New Zealand First DVD to promote Waitakere City and Auckland region
Location Auckland and Waitakere, New Zealand is a DVD developed between Waitakere
City Council (through
Waitakere
Enterprise), Auckland
City Council and Zoomslide
Media to market Waitakere City - and the Auckland region generally - as an
international film location.
The DVD contains about 3 hours of content including: stunning location footage,
examples of previous films and television commercials made here, endorsements
from film makers and music.
It will be distributed to producers and location managers and other film
industry decision makers, world-wide as a marketing exercise to attract new film
business to the region. Copies will be sent to known contacts and others will be
distributed at location expos and film festivals, world wide.
It will also be available to local production companies.
Mayors Bob Harvey and John Banks appear on the video as do many New Zealanders
who are well known to the film industry at home and abroad. Many of the big
names in local production of film television and music have also collaborated
with the project.
The work of promoting Auckland region as a film venue will probably be
co-ordinated in future, by a new organisation called Film Auckland.
Location Auckland and Waitakere is also the first large scale DVD production undertaken in New Zealand and significantly increases the technological capability in this country.
Location Auckland and Waitakere, New Zealand: Fact sheet
There is stunning coverage of the Waitakere Coast, Waitakere Ranges and City
with aerial footage provide by Heletranz. Auckland City film locations are also
presented to excellent effect.
Many leading figures were interviewed and extolled the virtues of the region as
a film venue. They were:
Bob Harvey (Mayor, Waitakere City and member, New Zealand Film Commission)
John Banks (Mayor, Auckland City)
Brian Kassler (Flying Fish)
Chris Dudman and Roimata MacGregor (Silverscreen)
Dean Lyon (Oktober)
Eric Gruendemann (Pacific Renaissance Pictures)
Grant Major (freelance art director)
Robin Scholes (Communicado)
Film makers are represented (in alphabetical order):
Bartle Bogle Hegarty (Audi Wakeboarder )
Curious (Mazda Bounty )
Flying Fish (Adidas, Heineken, Infineon, Nascar, State Insurance )
He Taonga Films (Kahu and Maia)
Jan Chapman Films/TF1 (The Piano)
Pacific Renaissance Pictures (Xena: Warrior Princess; Hercules: the legendary
journeys)
Silverscreen Productions (National Bank, NZ Post, Royal Salute, SteFilinlager,
Telecom-xtra)
Slater Films (Reactine)
South Pacific Pictures (Mercy Peak, Makatu)
The NZ Film Commission (Beautiful, Crooked Earth, Little Samurai, Navigator,
Once Were Warriors, Rain)
The Sweetshop (Royal Salute)
Tourism NZ / Newline Cinema (Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)
Universal Music (K Lee " Can you feel me, Zed Glorifillia)
