1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge News Talks. They've been nineteen after five. This 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: is the trailer of what is shaping up to be 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: one of the best films to come out of New 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Zealand in the last few years. Well is this. There 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: are a bunch of spoiled Bridge kids that have everything 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: they could ever want. You don't know them. You can't 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: just throw some Sunday school group together to sin conboy. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: Are you felt that I could give these kids something? Yeah, 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: it's pretty good. The name is Tina and it is 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: also far earned more than a million dollars, ranking as 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: the third biggest opening weekend for a New Zealand film. 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: It's also setting a record for the widest KIWI release, 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: heading one hundred and twenty eight locations in New Zealand 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 1: so far and beyond. Mika Munga Seva is the TENA director. 15 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: He's with me this evening. 16 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 2: Hi, Mikya, thank you so much for having me. 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: How are you feeling? This is excellent news. 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: We've been overwhelmed by the support. We just feel Oh, 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: I feel like it's a dream come true. So we're 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 2: just so happy. 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: It's a story about a teacher who an educator who's 22 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: in christ Church Tina is her name, and everyone's falling 23 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: in love with her because she's lost a daughter in 24 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: the christ at earthquakes. She's kind of down and out 25 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: and she takes on this job and basically teaches a 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: choir not just to sing, but to love and do 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: all sorts of other things at this elite private school. 28 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: What is it about this film that you think is 29 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: connecting with people or people are connecting with. 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: Well, I feel like everybody has somebody in their lives 31 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: who has been a bit like that, who has been 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 2: a mentor to them, who has guided them and doesn't 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: have to be their pearance necessarily, And that's sort of 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: where the teacher role comes in. That we've always had 35 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: somebody who's mentored us, who we've fallen in love us, 36 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: that has guided us and whatever career path that we've 37 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: gotten into and has inspired us outside of our own parents. 38 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: And although this is you know, cortinar and it is 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: about parenting and guidance, so I think everybody can you know, 40 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: respond to it because everybody has had some sort of 41 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: inspirational leader that they can turn to and remember. 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: Miki are the middle aged woman just leaving the cinema 43 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: crying in their drives. 44 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: Oh look, I tell you what there have been, but 45 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: I might just add to that there there have also 46 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: been men quietly crying in the corner there. I actually 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 2: had a My sister had a friend who said, I 48 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: took my dad. He never ever cries. He's a restaunch 49 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 2: white man, and yet he cry. I could hear him going. 50 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 2: I love that. 51 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk after the Oscars about the 52 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 1: fact no one's going to this anymore. Clearly, you've got 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: them there. Do you think there's something wrong with the cinema, 54 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: the price, or is it that we're not making enough 55 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: movies like this. 56 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 2: I think it's a combination of all of those things, perhaps, 57 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 2: and that it is tough times for everyone at the moment. 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 2: I recognize that ticket prices are very high, but also 59 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: recognize that it's a part of the economy that's happening 60 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 2: at the moment. There's larger things that play here. But 61 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: I also feel like that some of the old films 62 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: that we absolutely loved as children we've gone away from, 63 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: and I've tried to bring a lot of that back, 64 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 2: and We've heard a lot of commentary about you know, 65 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 2: these are working on the same tropes and these are 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,839 Speaker 2: the same sort of things we've seen before and lots 67 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: of other movies, and I a part of me loves 68 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: that because it's exactly what I intended for film. It's 69 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: what I grew up with and I absolutely loved. And 70 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: I show my son old movies all the time and 71 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: he loves all of them. So, you know, I think 72 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: we should look to our past with regards to filmmaking 73 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 2: and stories and tap on all of those things that 74 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: we loved as children. And just because we've been through 75 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: it before, it doesn't necessarily mean our children have seen 76 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: these films before. So we should tap into a bit 77 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: of that. 78 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 79 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,119 Speaker 1: news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 80 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.