Dave Letele

Currently, probably Dire Straits, I think.

Yeah, I think it's good.

You know, Taika and Jason and Cliff and all those guys bringing projects back here.

You know, they're not the only ones, of course.

There's Legends of Zelda being filmed at the moment.

Our son's working on that one.

But also, yeah, there's not a lot of homegrown stuff being made.

I think there's a little bit of stuff, but not a lot.

You know, there's just no money, bro.

You know, you've got to go back to the Helen Clark government of the...

you know, of the mid to late 2000s, you know, where she was, oh, was it the mid 2000s?

I think, yeah, mid to late, you know, but she was the one who, you know, 80 million a year into the arts, you know?

And then, of course, it got cut to 40, it got cut to 20, and now there's bugger all out there.

But I'm...

Just seeing that drop from the government, you know, in any way towards the arts is kind of sad because everyone suffers, bro.

It's not just the film industry.

You know, it's the artists, it's the painters, it's the sculptors, it's the guys who do glass, it's the clothing designers.

It's anyone who has any sort of inkling in becoming an artist, you know.

I mean, I know that social media has a real kind of way of, you know, connecting with people and stuff.

But like, you know, there's those grants.