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Oct 1, 2026
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Confronting ideas of mortality, acceptance, and stillness, viewers are invited behind the scenes to discover the creative process behind The Final Rest, revealing the ideas, collaboration, and filmmaking that shaped the trilogy's final chapter.
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A Threading Frames production supported by Creative New Zealand, DANZA, Wellesley Studios and Empire Studios.
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Directors, Tyler Kani-Faleatua, Joshua Faleatua.
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Cinematographer and editor, Joshua Falayatua.
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This podcast was produced by ORFM Dunedin with support from New Zealand On Air.
Sally McMillanHOST
In Creative New Zealand's most recent funding round, the South Island was notoriously short-changed.
Sally McMillanHOST
Only three Dunedin arts organisations received funding, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, the Fringe Festival and Blue Oyster Gallery.
Sally McMillanHOST
In today's show, we celebrate the success and ask what is blue oyster and why is it so important in the Dunedin arts scene? Kia ora and welcome to Sightlines, your guide to the visual arts in and around Dunedin.
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Piupiu Maya TureiGUEST
And that's because artists don't get time for development.
Piupiu Maya TureiGUEST
It goes back to the question about money, right? It's like, when do you actually get time just to sit down and focus on your practice? And we're hoping to provide a bit of that with some artists.
Jonathan QuayleHOST
And just very briefly, you're involved in a working group that is working through the reforms that Creative New Zealand has basically forced on the New Zealand creative community.
Jonathan QuayleHOST
And this is a transition from centralized funding to a more regional funding model.
Tayi TibbleGUEST
The practicality of that is that I got published in the US and I was able to make a little bit of money with that.
Tayi TibbleGUEST
I recently applied for a grant from Creative New Zealand and was successful, so that's really why I can do this full-time, for a while at least, is because I was able to get funding, even though I feel a bit guilty about it because There's been lots of cuts to the funding pool, and with this new government, it's like, yeah, the arts funding is not where it should be or needs to be to support a really healthy arts community in New Zealand, which is sad.
Tayi TibbleGUEST
Because that's really what needs to happen if you want to be a writer full-time, is you need that support.
Louis Pinker MeihanaHOST
So you said you've had a number of day jobs as you've moved across.
Chris FinlaysonHOST
He stood for Labour, Phil, in Wellington Central in 1996 when Bolger ended up supporting Richard Preble for the seat.
Chris FinlaysonHOST
Then he became deputy mayor, served for a time on the parole board and also on Creative New Zealand.
Chris FinlaysonHOST
I had many interactions with him, mainly through Tim Grosser, with whom he had gone to Valley High.
Chris FinlaysonHOST
They were very, very good friends.
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And self-funded feels especially relevant in today's world, not only because of business decisions, but also because of political ones.
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And in an Aotearoa context, we've seen Creative New Zealand funding and other forms of art funding become increasingly competitive and restricted.
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Has that influenced you in creating this event at all?
F. Theodore ElliottGUEST
Yeah, it's always been interesting to me because I've been working, not for money, but being creative in the film space for about 15 years now.
Chris SchulzGUEST
They're getting in front of these crowds that they're building to, career to do this themselves and I guess too at a time when you know there's this perception that arts is being cut by the national government I had to cover the I had to interview all the small theatres and
Toby ManhireHOST
In relation to the Creative New Zealand changes.
Chris SchulzGUEST
Yeah, the dance companies that had missed out on funding this round.
Chris SchulzGUEST
They were some of the bleakest interviews I've done in a long time.
Toby ManhireHOST
Obviously, Ed Sheeran has shown us the power of her opening act in recent times.
Toby ManhireHOST
It's unfortunate he's not being supported.
Toby ManhireHOST
You talk about the Creative New Zealand changes, and we won't go too deeply into those here, but I would encourage people to read your piece on the spinoff from maybe about a month ago now, which you talked to a whole lot of artists around Aotearoa about the struggles they've faced.
Toby ManhireHOST
Obviously, it's a difficult time for artists when funding mechanisms change.
Zoe GeorgePANELIST
So we're talking about, for me, I am heavily involved in the creative sector here in New Zealand, particularly in Wellington.
Zoe GeorgePANELIST
And research from Creative NZ has estimated that $3.20 and wider community benefits for every $1 spent on live performance.
Zoe GeorgePANELIST
And I'm not against bringing major international acts coming into New Zealand, but I feel that there needs to be some kind of local arts levy because funding to local arts has been cut dramatically.
Zoe GeorgePANELIST
And with the likes of Bats Theatre, where I sit on the board, we've had our funding cut by nearly half.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
Yeah, well, I was so lucky to get that support.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
And I also got a little bit of support from Creative New Zealand.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
And it sent me over to Tamworth, which is the capital of country music in Australia.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
They have a really big festival.
Erin SpeedyHOST
Can you tell us about that?
Nicola MitchellGUEST
yeah well i was yeah i was so lucky um to get that support and i also got a little bit of support from creative new zealand and yeah sent me over to tamworth which is the capital of country music in australia they have a really big festival and so for the whole month of january at the start of this year i was in australia and i was over there writing i spent two weeks writing with a group of about 30 other writers and all at different stages on their journeys and we had mentors and people come in that some of them were like you know, like huge, amazing, incredible artists.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
Well, I mean, all of them were incredible, but some of them were like big names, like Casey Chambers came in and it was just so magical and yeah, a beautiful way to start what then came to the Tamworth Country Music Festival, which is another two weeks of a huge festival in the town.
Nicola MitchellGUEST
And there's so many like incredibly talented humans.
Claire ColemanHOST
I have also, in amongst of my pesky – I'm a public nuisance, gang – in my pesky emailing just sent a bunch of stuff through that basically outlines all of the cuts to arts education in all of the spaces across our town over the last few years.
Claire ColemanHOST
So we know there have been big cuts to Creative New Zealand.
Claire ColemanHOST
There's been big funding cuts to many of the – community arts organizations that also engage in education.
Claire ColemanHOST
So I know that music is trying to push back right now about the cancellation of the hire facility from the libraries, the music notation hire, is that right? So I do think this is kind of a broader kind of problem that we need to really reconsider and really think about not only just the erosion of the arts education that's happening directly through curriculum, but also what's
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