that. But disrespecting what we have made -- glibly writing it off as grandmas in wheelchairs in South Auckland -- pisses me off. That video, and that press release, was the wrong way to sell your alternative, in my opinion. Your response is almost entirely a tone argument, Adam. You now seem to be saying 'oh, okay, they are not doing anything terrible per se, but I don't like the way they said it. That is a completely different point from the one you made in your initial post though. Blue Harvest is a premiere shorts pod; you cannot apply to them unless you've already produced a significant body of work which means that you're already indoctrinated and aware of the climate within the New Zealand film industry. While I don't disagree that the Blue Harvest video can come across as dismissive as your own article, I contend that a large portion of their audience already knows the 'lay of the land' in terms of the ins and outs of filmmaking in New Zealand, particularly for the shorts arena. 'Story tropes' exist in any medium and in any style, not just genre films, and our traditional cinema has them as much as any Hollywood blockbuster. The fact that the analogies made about 'filmmakers with personal stories' or 'dark drama' actually pretty much nails the aesthetic and thematic undertones of NZ's Cinema Of Unease (even getting a reaction out of you) and shows that those tropes are justified. If, as a