To The Film Commission

If you don't sell Steve Barr and a few board members down the river, then we'll end up in the unenviable situation of a prominent NZ filmmaker refusing to even meet the NZFC. I mean, think about it rationally. Steve's project would've required NZ on Air as well. You guys would've barely got a look in. Whereas I have at least two rock-solid feature ideas - Fantasia Italiana and Shipwrecked - that you want to fund, plus the shorts. We could even win an Oscar, given that there's a lot of Americans who thought I was gypped over Portrait of a Knight. So there's some dude who might be hot with SPADA, but isn't a real player in features, and was working for TVNZ when I wrote that first draft. Compared to myself, who is tracking quite well to be another Taika, it's a no-brainer. Choose me. Fire some board members for being jerks.