'Selling Off The Country' on 'The Last Resort'
posted 2006-07-13
Selling Off The Country – from Daniel’s 2006 release OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political – will feature in the soundtrack to ‘The Last Resort’, a New Zealand documentary by Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright, showing at The 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival.
The Last Resort
Director: Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones
2006
87 Minutes
New Zealand
Photography/Sound: Errol Wright
Editors: Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones
Post-production sound: Brett Stanton
Beta-SP
M offensive language
With: Murray Horton, Moana Jackson, Rod Donald, Harry Evison, Roger Kerr, Ngaromoana Raureti-Tomoana, Rakiihia Tau, Maxine Boag, Max Bryant, Lis Battes
World Première
Paradise Lost is a recurrent theme in this year’s Festival. Filmmakers Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright bring it uncomfortably close to home in their documentary about ‘overseas investment’ in New Zealand. Opposition to the sale of the 60-year-old Blue Bay campground at Mahia to a residential developer provides an informative case study of the continuing privatisation of public resources. Pakeha families who have enjoyed the camp for generations, their sense of well-being abruptly undermined, find themselves identifying with the Ma¯ori understanding of the land as common entitlement. The closely related view that the Seabed and Foreshore Legislation has tragic ramifications for all New Zealanders is expressed with vigour and eloquence by an array of impressive activists and commentators, including Murray Horton, Moana Jackson and the late Rod Donald. Meanwhile we watch as the suits power their way through district council ‘consultations’, select committee hearings and parliamentary ballots that only appear to be occurring a universe away from the beach.
>> Link to the The 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival
>> Listen to Selling Off The Country @ CD Baby
