Films
Submission to Secretary re film “End of the Spear”
Friday, April 11th, 2008Urgent 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 Secretary of Internal Affairs re the [...]
Submission to Board Re film “End of the Spear”
Friday, April 11th, 2008Attention: 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 version of [...]
Morals body seeks lower [End of the Spear] film rating
Friday, April 11th, 2008KELLY 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 in 1956. The [...]
Documentary A Revealing Expose of the Adult Entertainment: on-line streaming video preview
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Check 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 healthy sexual [...]
Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Report 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 gratuitous [...]
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow
Monday, October 22nd, 2007In 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 [...]
Society Strongly Endorses Film "Amazing Grace"
Friday, July 27th, 2007BEHIND 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 GRACE [...]
How NZ Taxpayers Subside and Promote the Hard Core Porn Industry via the Chief Censor’s Office
Saturday, November 18th, 2006The 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 [...]
A Curious Case of Censorship Collusion
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005The 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 [...]