After a delegation of 30 New Zealand businesspeople make their way to Los Angeles this weekend to promote our country as a screen production destination, another representative will travel to India on a similar mission.
Annie Murray, the chief executive of the Film Commission which is helping co-ordinate the trips, said New Zealand needed to do everything it could to encourage projects to choose to film and post-produce here as global competition intensified.
Last month the commission was criticised by the ACT Party, which is ideologically opposed to the idea of rebates, for what its arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson described as spend on “boozy dinners to schmooze executives into coming to New Zealand”, in regard to a trip to Cannes in France in May.
