We're well past that "c'mon mate, get stuck in, do the yakka, it's all good, she'll be right mate, script is king buddy script is king, it'll all be right on the night" mentality. Now we're up to our armpits in shit and we're desperately relearning how to swim. Yes, we tell good stories, and it's not that our NZ stories aren't interesting to anyone, but more like not interesting enough to everyone, everywhere in the way we currently present them. I get the impression that the Blue Harvest team are looking for film makers who could go on to write and direct films that compete on a scale of the likes of say Star Wars or Avatar. As in, a world wide audience of hundreds of millions. (I'm not talking about dollars, but eyes watching the screen) I'm sure those guys, like me, are all for the Boy's, Piano's and Blue Rider's of our country, but why is Taika having to crowd source funds to get his film (which I think is great) on screens in the States? What does that say? If we want to compete in this playground at that level, then we are going to have to dress a little similar. I was excited to hear their plans the Blue Harvest guys put out. I submitted a film script to them for funding last week and it has nothing of what traditionally we would think is "Kiwi" about it -- other than I wrote it and