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Jeshua Manu

Jeshua Manu

Co-founder and Producer of VertiPlay, New Zealand's first vertical drama production company.

Aug 9, 2026

0:54
You are the first one I've interviewed from New Zealand, so what advantages does New Zealand offer for short drama production?
1:01
New Zealand has a couple of different, um, advantages, both from the storytelling side and from the technical side.
1:08
Um, the first one that's a big-ticket number is that there are no unions here, um, so producing a, um, drama over here is just a lot easier.
1:17
There's also no fringes, which, um, also makes the process easier.
1:22
There's a local rebate as well which is up for grabs, which we've been, um, chatting, um, we're in talks with the government with.
1:29
Um, and there've been some changes to that which makes them more vertical-friendly, but so we are, yeah, working on applying that rebate to vertical dramas.
1:38
Um, so that's on the technical side what makes New Zealand, um, oh, just a much easier place to get a vertical drama done.

28 MINS LATER

29:30
But how do you see the future of micro drama?

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