Once More Unto The Breach

Well a week may be a long time in politics, but it's an aeon in filmmaking. Without going into the details of how it happened, a conference call with the New Zealand Film Commission yesterday has resulted in us being given a partial reprieve. We now have until 5.00pm Monday to come up with a distribution deal. If we can produce that, then our application will be allowed to go forward to the Board.

Negotiations are well advanced on that front, and we're hopeful of being able to make the deadline - but it'll be something of a scramble. Even then, of course, there's no guarantees that we'll receive funding. But at least we'll have a chance to present our case.

If you want certainty, become a tax collector or an undertaker - but don't even think about producing a movie. We have so many balls in the air at the moment that we're in danger of being knocked out by a stray one!

As Shakespeare put it in the mouth of Henry V:

"Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height."