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Tui Ruwhiu: Directors and Editors Guild on calls for NZ to join Australia in major shakeup for local film, television production

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 6:49 p.m.

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Calls for New Zealand to join in Australia in a major shakeup for local film and television production.

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From mid-2024, streaming services like Netflix, Disney and Amazon will be forced to reinvest 20 percent of their revenue back into the local market.

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This in turn could also see the companies produce a certain quota of domestic content.

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Directors and Editors Guild executive director Tui Ruwhiu told Mike Hosking it\'s been raised in various meetings at different levels.

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He says it\'ll be difficult to implement here because of general agreement of trade and tariffs in the World Trade Organisation we\'re signed up to.

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