Here at the bottom of the globe, we’re used to being overlooked. New Zealand has been left off the world map so many thousands of times that the phenomenon now has its own Wikipedia page, and a 119,000 strong Reddit community. There are hundreds of people in another corner of the internet that believe New Zealand used to be in a different location, and others elsewhere who question whether our country ever even existed.
And after the opening of a brand new Netflix “ANZ” office in Sydney last month, and media coverage that barely mentioned New Zealand at all, our local screen industry has been left wondering if we have been forgotten once again. Coinciding with the launch of Territory, a Yellowstone-style outback drama and Netflix’s most expensive Australian commission to date, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters committed to telling more “ambitious, authentic stories at a significant scale” from down under.
