While New Zealand's feature-film industry enjoys growing international success, this 1982 Kaleidoscope report examines how its films are funded. Reporter Gordon McLauchlan looks at the financing behind hits like Goodbye Pork Pie and Smash Palace. Director Sam Pillsbury discusses the industry's rapid growth, Film Commission chair Bill Sheat explains their funding process, and producer-financier Gary Hannam explains how private investment is attracted. All the while, the Inland Revenue Department is investigating schemes that allow film investors to maximise their tax deductions, prompting tax reforms later that year.

Note: this surviving copy contains some short sections of blank screen