Another repetitive statement

I don't care that the Film Commission is basically expecting me to pitch Tina, and that they've clearly signalled that they want to buy/produce/shoot that script. Sorry! I said no, and provided drafting documents in order to halt production. Instead of back channels, they should have simply met me in early 2023. As a result of their lack of faith in my first draft, they don't have any legal right to force production.

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They're welcome to bid again after my book is finished, but until then they have to accept that my choice to adapt the story into prose was valid, fair, sane, stable and reasonable.

- I don't care that the Wellington community sees Tina as the only way to interact with me; that's pathetic and that's why I'm keen to leave the bloody city entirely. How about if a dozen or so of the shits that wanted me to make the film simply accept that Tina was a polemic that was partly designed to force you to tolerate me, and you found that discomfiting? You're still not tolerating me: you're not emailing me, you're not messaging me, and you're not meeting me face-to-face.

Then you wonder why I have such a chip on my shoulder?

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Treat me like a human being, and not like a show pony that you want to use to get paid because your traditional systems of funding are disappearing.

Stop harassing me about the script; stop suggesting that the only script of mine that has any value is the one that allows you to look LGBTQ+ tolerant without actually interrogating the darkness that exists within those communities.

As I've said before, I'm fucking sick of all these holier-than-thou gay films and series that refuse to admit the appalling statistics around drug addiction, violence and suicide that really exist in queer communities.

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Allow me to fairly and reasonably pitch other ideas, and accept that my book is a fair and valid reason to refuse to licence my script to Michelle or to VUW or the Film Commission.

Otherwise, I refuse to meet with any funding bodies. They can't force me, and part of the reason why they can't is because they haven't met me, haven't spoken to me, haven't actually offered a contract. As far as I can tell, they're refusing to do so because my script isn't actually something that they like: they're only pretending to like it because I shamed them and my Ads were a success.

Much like the tacky, tokenistic efforts of the theatre geeks and classical music folks to make me feel 'included' when the only thing that they've done is stalk me relentlessly instead of actually bothering to talk to me. If you're not going to communicate with me directly, then back off and stop with your stupid power trips.

Treat me like a filmmaker that has over a decade of experience in a range of forms, including shorts, documentaries and features, despite never receiving funding for any of those particular productions. I'm trying to tell you that I reject identity politics, and therefore being funded for a script simply because I'm trans is appalling.

I mean, if you'd actually read the script, this would have been obvious...