Win lose Win?
I’ve never won a competition. I’ve placed 3rd in a piano competition. But never first. So it didn’t surprise me that I didn’t get the Vietnam scholarship. I have to say, compared to what some others submitted, my little video was just not good enough. Which made me realize I didn’t put my all into it. I could have gone out and really found a topic, an experience, a person that would tell a real story, a story maybe about Maoris. Or a story about New Zealanders. But I didn’t. So yes, it doesn’t surprise me. But it does make me realize that I haven’t really put my all into making a doco here. And there are real stories to be told. About the high rate of alchohol abuse, marital abuse, drugs- and then the amazing stories of survival, of nature. It’s all here. It’s just waiting to be told. And unfortunately I just don’t see these stories on New Zealand television. Most of what I see is regurgitated American television. And the bad kind. Take a look at some of the winners for the competition. Pretty spectacular for a 3 minute video.
No I didn’t win, but I guess I realized that I miss being out there making real films. I’m hoping that I may have that opportunity in the South Island. A friend of a friend is potentially putting a documentary together about an artist in Wanaka. I’m hoping there will be some way that I can help her make it a real film.
