Category Archives: Films

Film and Video Labelling Body – censorship and charity

The Film and Video Labelling body (“FVLB”), like the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc (“SPCS”), is constituted as an incorporated society under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908. Like the Society, which is a registered charity (registered with the Charities Commission on 17/12/2007 Reg. No. CC20268); it too is a registered charity (registered 28/01/2008 [...]

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LA Zombie – Herald on Sunday reporter seeks responses

Here is the email received by the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc. (SPCS) from Herald on Sunday reporter Andre Hueber on Friday April 29, 2011 at 10.38 AM regarding LA Zombie, a film we were told was that was prevented from being screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July 2010. The Festival organisers had proposed to [...]

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“Salo – Decision goes so low” says Family Voice Australia

FamilyVoice Australia: Media Release, 6 May 2010 “Yesterday’s confirmation of the R18+ rating for the DVD of Salo – Pasolini’s  film revelling in teen torture and sex abuse – hits a new low in Australian classification decisions,” FamilyVoice national policy officer Richard Egan said today. FamilyVoice Australia was the only community group to make a [...]

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Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed: Paramount Theatre, Wellington.

SPCS commends film commencing 8.30 p.m. Thursday 17 December 2009, Paramount Theatre, Courtney Place, Wellington. The new American  movie Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed, directed by Nathan Frankowshi and hosted by Ben Stein, currently on its theatrical release in NZ, highlights a fundamental problem that is inherent in the NZ Science curriculum. In the section [...]

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Submission to Secretary re film “End of the Spear”

Urgent Attention Secretary of Internal Affairs and copy for Mr Owen Davie Secretary, Film & Lierature Board of Review Additional Comments Relevant to Society’s Proposed Lower Classification of the DVD End of the Spear and Formal Application for Leave. 5 February 2008 Further to the information submitted earlier by fax by the Society to the [...]

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Submission to Board Re film “End of the Spear”

Attention: Film & Literature Board of Review (FLBR) Re: End of the Spear (DVD 113 min 30 sec in length. Classified R16 By Chief Censor’s Office – the Office of Film and Literature Classification [OFLC]).) The Society contends that the DVD feature End of the Spear, which is virtually identical to the 35 mm cinema [...]

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Morals body seeks lower [End of the Spear] film rating

KELLY ANDREW – The Dominion Post Saturday, 05 April 2008 http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4464953a6479.html A morals group is calling for a film’s rating to be lowered from R16 so that younger audiences can experience its Christian message. End of the Spear tells the true story of a group of Christian missionaries speared to death by an Ecuadorian tribe [...]

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Documentary A Revealing Expose of the Adult Entertainment: on-line streaming video preview

Check out streaming video preview: http://www.1726entertainment.com/ A revealing documentary about the effects of porn on consumers. “An Accomplished Film” Sundance Film Festival. “Is porn really addictive? Are children being sexually exploited?  Who should teach sex education? How much of responsibility should the porn industry take to provide treatment for potentially addicted customers? Is porn a [...]

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Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm

Report 15/11/07 The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and [...]

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Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow

In a press release issued last year to explain why his Office had banned the Otago University student magazine Critic, which featured a controversial essay on drug rape, Chief Censor William Kenneth (Bill) Hastings described a male pornographer whose profile was also featured in the magazine, as one “who makes a living by filming the [...]

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Society Strongly Endorses Film "Amazing Grace"

BEHIND THE SONG YOU LOVE, IS A STORY YOU WILL NEVER FORGET AMAZING GRACE, the story of William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) was released in New Zealand cinemas on July 19, 2007. Much anticipation and excitement within the Christian community surrounded the release of this remarkable film. It has received glowing reviews (see below). AMAZING [...]

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How NZ Taxpayers Subside and Promote the Hard Core Porn Industry via the Chief Censor’s Office

The Deputy Chief Censor. Ms Nicola McCully, whose statutory position expired on the 18th of September 2005, and yet remains on in her job, confirmed in a Sunday Star Times interview (13/08/06), that 80% of her time and that of the 16 censors in the Classification Unit, is devoted to the careful examination, classification and [...]

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A Curious Case of Censorship Collusion

The film "Baise-Moi" came to be classified prior to its mainstream cinema release in NZ by a route which suggests a "curious case of censorship collusion" involving the importer/ ‘distributor’, Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings and the CEO of the FVLB Mr Bill Hood. This curious case of apparent collusion involving a NZ film distributor [...]

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