Peter Calder in the New Zealand Herald called
it ‘a meticulous record of our modern film industry’. Actor Rena Owen described
it as ‘compulsive reading – entertaining, passionate, informative and often
very funny.’ It was proclaimed a must for film-lovers. Now Lindsay Shelton’s
2005 book The Selling of New Zealand Movies has been updated
and released as an ebook under a new title, Dancing with Hollywood,
by publisher Awa Press.
Shelton was the Film Commission’s first marketing
director, held the job for 20 years, and pulls no punches about why some films
succeed internationally while others crash and burn. Promoted as ‘a rare and
absorbing look behind the glamour, to the real business of how movies are made
and sold’, the book also includes a filmography of all New Zealand-produced
movies.
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