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Getting to Our Place

Television (Full Length) – 1999

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This 70-minute documentary provides an eye-opening view into the crucible that forged Wellington's Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The museum opened in February 1998. The fly-on-the-wall doco reveals the challenges of developing a national museum melding history, art gallery and commercial attractions. As political, creative and monetary considerations collide, the result bears "many of the hallmarks of a thriller" (NZ Herald writer Peter Calder). Included are tense stoushes about funding, the Treaty of Waitangi exhibition, and Saatchi & Saatchi's logo ideas. This backgrounder adds further detail.

We needed to have an identity that could go out there and work for us in the commercial environment.
– Te Papa Chief Executive Cheryll Sotheran

Key Cast & Crew

Chris Terpstra

Camera Operator

Paul Sutorius

Editor

Darryn Smith

Camera Operator

Anna Cottrell

Co-Director, Field Director

Gaylene Preston

Co-Director, Producer

Robin Laing

Associate Producer

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Produced by

Gaylene Preston Productions

Source

Gaylene Preston Productions

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from NZ On Air
Presented with thanks to the Aotearoa/ New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata
This film is in memory of Leni Apisai

Music

Closing credits live performance of 'Now is the Hour' by Howard Morrison

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