This has been a strong year for New Zealand's screen sector - despite the global pandemic.
2020 opened with an Oscar for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, and a major international TV series - the well-reviewed Luminaries. There have also been an unprecedented number of local TV drama series on screen, as well as two major overseas projects in production - James Cameron's Avatar sequels and Amazon's TV series Lord of the Rings.
To top it off, last week the two top films at the box office were both Kiwi comedies - This Town and Lowdown Dirty Criminals.
A good time, in other words, to launch the Screen Sector Strategy 2030. As the name suggests, it's a 10-year road-map to advance the sector: films - local and overseas... TV productions, including overseas co-productions... and now animation and gaming.
The strategy came at the end of a lot of discussion with representatives across the sector.
So who asked for it, how much did it cost, and what's it hoping to achieve?
Lynn Freeman talks with two of the Facilitation Group who laid the ground work: Alice Shearman, Executive Director of the Writers Guild, and David Wilks, General Manager of Weta Workshop...
