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To the Film Commission

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Sep 25, 2025
  • 1 min read

Looked up the board, noticed that there were no indie people. That's why you failed me. Steve Barr isn't an indie dude, though he's made a few cheapo films that tried to cash in on that 2010's Wellington indie buzz. He's a Hollywood hack who got rich by selling a spec script to Disney. If he'd bought my script, recognising the parallels, there wouldn't be a need to argue. - Indie people would've defended my IP rights to the ends of the earth, remembering the times that suits like you tried to steal their treatments, scripts and other bric-a-brac. Thought Ant was still on the board, but this explains your dickhead tactics. - Step off. My Weeded Out script isn't legally available, sorry. If you want my songs, then fund a development round for my Shipwrecked on Islands script + songs. Pay me to write a screenplay of any kind, instead of being Steve's slave. Like Fantasia Italiana. It doesn't really matter which project, but it can't be his pet project. The proof is in the pudding: Don was really hot in the late '80s, but refused to do some lame TV series that the Brits offered him and Harry. Instead, he wrote a bunch of songs that are now Kiwi anthems.

 
 
 

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