Behind the Story: Aotearoa and its love of movies

Senior writer Alex Casey has a long history with cinema, both as a
reviewer and as a former projectionist. This week she wrote two
film-adjacent features. The first had Alex travel to Akaroa to
speak to the people running a bustling local cinema and then go
down a rabbit hole of South Island cinemas holding on to the movies
as a third space. And the second is just a fun appreciation of our
strangely high proportion of successful child actors, and what
makes it possible to succeed here at 11 years old. She appeared on
Behind the Story to talk local reporting, the magic of movies and
the very best of our child actors. The small town cinemas holding
on at the edge of the world How does New Zealand produce so many
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