







As ever, our domestic cinemas are being hugely supportive of our film: we're thrilled to welcome the Lighthouse Cinema, Petone and Circus Cinema, Martinborough. We now have 43 cinemas showing our film! While it's a lot of work distributing your own film, it's always informative to talk to the people who actually make a living from screening films to audiences and hear their observations about what sort of films work and why. Tim at Circus even said to me, "You would be the first distributor to ask what we [cinema owners] think. Most are trying to sell you a film and won't give you their honest opinion. I've been talked into a few that have been complete disasters - now I do my research and check reviews. So your approach is unique." This highlights that there's room for much better connection between filmmakers and their audiences!
Tickets are now available for the Wellington premiere of Hook, Line & Sinker. Go to our ticket purchase page. There are a variety of ways you can get hold of them. And bring along your friends, family and colleagues.
Russell Moses has donated a terrific artwork to Torchlight Films and proceeds from its sale will go towards the final post-production costs of Hook, Line & Sinker. Have a look at it on our ART AUCTION page and help us find a good home for this beautiful piece.
Non-artist Torchlight supporters have donated art works to next weeks art auction including pieces by Ralph Hotere, Vivian Lynn, Denys Watkins, Jane Zusters and Barry Cleavin. The auction will be held at the Island Bay Film Studio on Monday 15th Feburary. Follow the link for more details and photos of the works on auction.
Be sure to catch Taking the Waewae Express on Maori TV on 2 January at 8.30pm. See preview from the Listener Archive below which got a whopping 9 stars out of 10!
Shane, Andrea and the cast have been flat out with improvisation for the past four weeks. Check out some shots of the action below.