Business Time!

After six years of development; after endless script revisions; after numerous meetings in London, Birmingham, Cannes and Auckland; after negotiations and consultations and frustrations; after collecting talent and equity; after a few thousand pages of documentation - after all of that and more, it comes down to this.

Tomorrow and the next day, the NZFC Board will meet. They have a new chair, several new members, a new CEO, a new government, and an ongoing review headed by one Peter Jackson to contend with. And also on the agenda is a production funding application for a feature film called The Insatiable Moon.

The Board will consider many reports on the project - some negative and some positive. They will look at the package - UK Director Gillies Mackinnon, lead Rawiri Paratene, attachments from Timothy Spall, James Nesbitt and John Rhys Davies, double BAFTA winning producer Tim Sanders. They will consider the finance plan and the budget, and look at the distribution deal. With any luck they will watch a five minute promotional video about the film.

And - they will decide. Whether this is a NZ story they want to support, or whether it does not meet their criteria. That decision will determine whether we proceed with a low-budget option for the film, or have the benefit of making a better quality product with the aid of NZ's only film funding body.

By the end of the week we will know the result. Meantime, we try to press on with the tasks necessary to the November shoot. And wait.

This is it. It's Busines Time.