A $3.2 million documentary feature film charting the rise of ex-NZ Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern – backed by $800,000 in public funds – is the latest tired product of the country’s lacklustre film industry, writes Nicholas Sheppard.
The New Zealand Film Commission is to spend $800,000 on an upcoming Dame Jacinda Ardern documentary.
The project has a total cost of $3.2 million, but the Commission says it’s had “significant” international and local investment.
“The documentary records a period of New Zealand’s history,” the Commission said, somewhat ambiguously.
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