What did Sam Neill see that New Zealand still hasn’t fixed?
Thirty-one years after Cinema of Unease, the industry Sam Neill helped build still hasn’t decided whether it wants to tell its own story or rent out its scenery.
Grant McLachlan
Aug 47 min read
Why doesn't humility make good cinema?
A hundred veteran interviews across nine countries suggest New Zealand and Britain's self-effacing war traditions haven't earned Hollywood's respect — they've earned its silence, and that isn't only about modesty.
Grant McLachlan
Jul 307 min read
A generation of ambition lost?
New Zealand's brain drain has been measured to exhaustion. What the academics keep missing is that the country is not just losing people — it is losing the kind of people who refuse to play in-house.
Grant McLachlan
May 36 min read
Short film to be shot in Queenstown
Internationally published researcher and writer Grant McLachlan has adopted Queenstown as the location to produce several film projects.
Lakes Weekly Bulletin
Sep 13, 20233 min read
