Making It Happen

Interesting article about Tom Scott (NZ satirist and cartoonist) in the Sunday papers, in which he talks about his 25 year journey to getting his script made into the feature film Separation City. The film will finally open on August 6th. That's endurance.

Scott talks about some of the difficulties he's faced getting his creative work into production in the article.

'There was the battle to get Separation City made: "they blocked it and blocked it and blocked it and blocked it." And there was the play he wrote earlier this decade about his childhood, The Daylight Atheist, which was rudely rejected by Circa Theatre. Scott went ahead and organised a production himself and it opened to ecstatic reviews in Wellington, and again in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.'

So there we have it - Scott's long shadow (see previous post). And the gutsy determination to push back against all the obstacles which people put in the way. Tom is a funny guy with an original voice, and I look forward to seeing the movie. Meanwhile, we've got one of our own which needs making...