The tagline runs: "The story of unemployment in New Zealand" and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it takes as its starting point the consensus from The Depression onwards that Godzone economic policy should focus on achieving full employment, and explores how this was radically shifted by the 1984 Labour government. Director Alister Barry's perspective is clear, as he trains a humanist lens on ‘Rogernomics' to argue for the policy's negative effects on society, "as a new poverty-stricken underclass developed".
The surprising success of our feature documentary, Someone Else's Country, at the 1996 New Zealand International Film Festival and the flurry of mail-order vhs sales that followed opened the possibility of a wide New Zealand audience ...
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Television, 1970 (Full Length)
Brian Edwards brokers an industrial dispute
Television, 1964 (Full Length)
A 1964 doco on NZ’s then-largest public works construction project
Television, 2000 (Excerpts)
An episode looking at economic change in NZ society in the Twentieth Century
Available to purchase from the Filmshop or the Alister Barry website.
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Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2010
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