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Speaker 1: Queenstown's finally opened it's film production facility five years in

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Speaker 1: the making. Remarkable studio now open for business. It's an

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Speaker 1: alternative to what's off And I suppose an Auckland screen

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Speaker 1: Time New Zealand boss Philly de Lacy happens to be

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Speaker 1: in France at the moment, but that's not going to

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Speaker 1: stop it because we got the tech together her on

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Speaker 1: the old WhatsApp Morning Morning. I remember talking about this

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Speaker 1: when this whole thing was first mooted. Is it everything

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Speaker 1: you dreamed it would be?

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Speaker 2: The studio, Yeah, I'm delighted. Oh look, we're so excited

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Speaker 2: about it. We've been looking for a studio space in

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Speaker 2: Queenstown for I've been looking for more than five years.

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Speaker 2: I know lots lots of people have been looking for

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Speaker 2: a lot longer. And we were in Queenstown starting up

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Speaker 2: for a Remarkable Place to Die at the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the year and an old department store came available and

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Speaker 2: we all just like, the whole team ring me and

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Speaker 2: they're like, we've got to take it. And I went,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, we've got to take it. And so

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Speaker 2: we filmed A Remarkable Place Today, which is an eight

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Speaker 2: hour series which is launching here at Mipcom at the

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Speaker 2: moment in the studio and it was just too good

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Speaker 2: to let go. So we've spent a bit of time

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Speaker 2: negotiating figuring out how we're going to run it, and

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Speaker 2: we're now open for business.

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Speaker 1: So can you answer the question, if you build it,

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Speaker 1: will they come?

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Speaker 2: Well, since we announced it, we've had multitudes of inquiry,

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Speaker 2: So I would say, so.

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Speaker 1: Are you eating somebody else's lunch like Awkland's.

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. I think there is a lot

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Speaker 2: of production that will spread all over the country. It's

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Speaker 2: a small space, but it's what it does is make

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Speaker 2: production in Queenstown a lot smoother and much simpler process.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we've got absolutely spectacular locations in Queenstown

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Speaker 2: and it needs a facility to really be able to

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Speaker 2: make the production industry in that region boom, and you know,

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Speaker 2: and it's a great complimentary industry to so it sort

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Speaker 2: of goes hand in hand, and we really want to

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Speaker 2: build the infrastructure there.

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Speaker 1: I was going to, do you have the people or

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Speaker 1: do you need the people? And do they need to realize.

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Speaker 2: We've got lots of amazing people and we want to

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Speaker 2: attract more.

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Speaker 1: It's the upshot, what's your state, because you'd be at

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Speaker 1: the cutting edge of all of this. See, the media

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Speaker 1: landscape in this country is in some dire straits at

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Speaker 1: the moment. But then again, on the international stage, you

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Speaker 1: got all the streamers making no end of product at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Are things good for people like you? Will not?

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Speaker 2: We look, I want to touch wood a lot of

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Speaker 2: the time because we're having a great year. At the moment.

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Speaker 2: The industry in New Zealand is really tough. You know,

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Speaker 2: our broadcasters are going through a really, really difficult time

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Speaker 2: and I hope that gets rectified because I think it's

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Speaker 2: really important to protect our terrestrial broadcasters and that's actually

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Speaker 2: something that's been commonly said around this market. But I

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Speaker 2: think that we there's also opportunity. You know, there's shrinkage

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Speaker 2: in the market around the world, which means that people

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Speaker 2: are looking for different ways to do business, and New

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Speaker 2: Zealand's a great market to do business. We've got amazing crows,

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Speaker 2: we've got the New Zealand dollar, We've got you know,

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Speaker 2: equivalent rebates to everywhere else in the world, and we're

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Speaker 2: a really good, honest, you know, excellent operators. So I

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Speaker 2: think that that's what you know, that's a real strength

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Speaker 2: for us, and I think that there's there's actually real

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Speaker 2: opportunities for us to do more co productions, look at

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Speaker 2: different ways of doing business and eventually things will come right.

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Speaker 1: Good Philly go well in France. Philly lacing screen Time

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