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Apparently the Government likes libraries too. The National Library is getting a $69 million makeover in the next few years. This was announced today by Helen Clark and various digerati along with library and archive mavens.
The new designs do look very spunky from the outside – it would not be hard to be a vast improvement on the current building, prominently placed in the “Parliamentary Precinct”.
People listened attentively as the plans were outlined, as promises were made to take good care of our national treasures. NZ On Screen will be working with the National Library to some degree, we look forward to meetings in shiny new offices with natural light and flow!
Back in 1984 NZ took nine movies to Cannes.
Members of the New Zealand Delegation to the Cannes Film Festival: from left David Carson-Parker [Utu], John Maynard and Bridget Ikin [Vigil], Debbie Moran [Mirage Films], Larry Parr [Trial Run and Heart of the Stag], Don Reynolds, David Compton. (photo thanks to the DominionPost)
In 2008 the NZ Film Commission was in Cannes representing a number of films, including the recently released Second-Hand Wedding.
We didn’t manage to get a photo of the delegation. But Kim Baker, intrepid rights coordinator for NZ On Screen, was snapped on the red carpet just last weekend …
There’s been a fine team behind making it happen for NZ On Screen. Although you won’t see things in all their glory until the site goes live, we’d like to acknowledge the sterling work of the agencies Chrometoaster and 3months.com, who have respectively handled the design and development of the site.
While we have had the advantage of starting from scratch, there have been challenges in working with an evolving brief and in not knowing exactly where we want to end up before we get there. Designing and building the site using an agile framework has proven to be an ideal approach – we have all learned a lot and the outcome is fantastic! Full kudos to both agencies for their work so far.
More on our project approach and process (if anyone is interested) some other time
NZ On Screen’s intrepid travelling “Rights coordinator and industry liaison” person Kim Baker met up with expat kiwi filmmaker Roger Donaldson in Los Angeles last weekend to show him the NZ On Screen site in development and to talk about his work. The meeting went well – stay tuned for more details!
Meanwhile Kim is on her way to Cannes to do some work with the NZ Film Commission – we look forward to more reports!
Today Debbie, Sam, Kylie, and Clare visited The Dominion Post photographic library – who have kindly given us access to some of their photograph archive so that we can include photos on the NZ On Screen site.
(Thank you to The Dom…and especially Sarah Bartel and Lance Gunderson who tolerate our presence in their domain…).
We uncovered some magical photos to add to our collection – it was a bit of a blast from the past seeing presenters we’d forgotten about or actors in their early days of their careers. The photos bring together the people, the technology and the teams that have created great entertainment in New Zealand for many many years.
Clare and Sam
Just the tip of the iceberg…..
NZ On Air has been funding production of broadcast programmes (TV, radio, film, music) in NZ since 1989. A large proportion of the locally produced content we see and hear has been made possible through funding from NZ On Air.
As part of its digital strategy, put together in 2006/2007, the idea arose for a website to make as much locally produced audio-visual content available as possible – freely accessible to the public.
NZ On Screen is a project funded by NZ On Air.
With an initial focus on broadcast content, but expanding through connections with people and titles, NZ On Screen will bring our moving image history into your living rooms.
