Allowing Julie Christie to whitewash Tom Phillips tragedy for cops is very ugly

ByMartyn Bradbury

Wait, WHAT?

Tom Phillips doco registered for screen production rebate;

A controversial documentary on the Tom Phillips case appears to be in line to receive public support in the form of the country’s long-established screen production rebate.

The NZ Film Commission has confirmed it has received a registration for the rebate but – despite the level of potential public support – it is citing confidentiality and refusing to say whether the registration is for the 20% international screen production rebate or the 40% domestic screen production rebate.

It is not publicly known how much Dame Julie Christie’s documentary, currently being filmed, will cost to produce.

But if producers hypothetically spend, say, $4 million on a project and it is deemed eligible for one of the two rebates, they would receive $800,000 back under the international rebate or $1.6m back under the domestic rebate.

So Julie Christie who is running the whitewash documentary for the cops is also in line for a tax rebate for making the police propaganda?

She is getting behind the scenes access, to the point of being there at the kill scene.

Look.

NZ Police fatally shoot Kiwis at 11 times the rate of Officers in England and Wales and few are ever held accountable for those killings,

How critical of this case will Christie be if she has been granted access to the scene by the Police, their expectation of how it will be covered and the Final Cut will be with them, not her!

There are huge questions to be asked in this case, questions that can’t be fully answered because of the current Court Gag, questions that Julie Christie will answer on behalf of the Police.

 

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13 Comments

  1. After making a career of blurring the boundaries I doubt if any reality TV hag could still understand the difference between news and entertainment.

  2. Filthy stuff shouldn’t be allowed. I can’t bear all those reality tv show on cops and customs and all that crap some of it here and some of it in Australia.

  3. Wow, very cool! Looking forward to this veteran documentarian giving the shooting down of a man in cold blood in front of his kids the ‘Treasure Island’ treatment!

    1. Yes, if they were going to do a white wash documentary you’d have thought they could have used a serious producer, someone with integrity and credibility. And 10 years from now.
      Someone knows someone, who knows someone…

  4. On the image she looks haggard – might be acting the part of the bereaved wife herself. It’s a bit Brave New World style isn’t it. The immature, unexperienced young adults flock to the latest ‘happening’ where people writhing under the flow of their real feelings are examples for the gatherings who have had their emotions and impulses dumbed down, so can only watch and act out the behaviours without feeling the real power of the emotion.

  6. This whole thing of doing reality tv following incompetent cops is just abysmal…… how can it even be legally possible to do this shit. And where is the respect to the family. Has the mother been able to see her kids? Yet? Why not this is so wrong.

  7. Next week the tour buses will be driving past the glow worm caves and showing the world where the action and camp were .Then a cafe will pop up and a car park along with guided tours of the nearby camp sites .Thats the sickness that pervades these type of people that attempt to make cash from other peoples misfortune .

    1. Somebody must get the opportunity to clip the ticket Gordon, as usual. If someone can make money out of it then all is not lost!

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