New Zealand Lottery Grants Board Distribution of Funds

21st Century Arts Conference
Over 150 arts leaders, including performing
and visual arts practitioners, policy-makers
and local funders, attended the second 21st
Century Arts Conference hosted by Creative
New Zealand to help increase the skills of
arts organisations.
The conference focused on understanding
audiences and what motivates them to view
the arts, and on how an organisation’s brand
shapes audience perceptions.
NEW ZEALAND FILM
COMMISSION
The NZFC invested in seven feature films
during the year. Six NZFC-financed titles
were released in New Zealand and one title
(Second Hand Wedding) continued its run
from the previous financial year.
The Commission also continued its longstanding
policy of delegating a selection of
new short films to independent filmmaker
groups. The three selection groups committed
production financing to nine new short films.
More than 180,000 people watched Leanne
Pooley’s documentary feature The Topp Twins:
Lottery Grants Record 2008–2009
Untouchable Girls when it was released
theatrically in April. It was the most popular
New Zealand feature of the year and the
most successful documentary to ever screen
theatrically in New Zealand. Second in
popularity was Toa Fraser’s feature Dean
Spanley. Four other NZFC-financed features
were also released in New Zealand cinemas
during the year. The total cinema audience
for the six titles was nearly 300,000.
SPORT AND RECREATION
NEW ZEALAND
Active Communities Investment
Active Communities Investment is a national
programme to help support community
sport and recreation. Grassroots sport and
recreation events and programmes all over
New Zealand benefit from this funding.
It includes the North Shore City Beach
Series, a family-friendly event which is in
its fourth year. Over 18 summer evenings,
hundreds of participants, from kids and
novices through to Olympic-class athletes,
come to swim, kayak and run.
Lottery Grants Board money helped fund
Sport Bay of Plenty’s highly successful Dads
’n’ Lads event. Fathers and sons were given
weekly mountain bike training sessions by
experienced bikers. The 10-week course
made the most of the world-class tracks
through Rotorua’s Whakarewarewa Forest.
Active Communities also funded a
programme through Waimakariri District
Council with the North Canterbury Sport and
Recreation Trust. Primary school children of
all ages and skill levels are coached in up to
16 sports to learn basic but essential skills
that will help keep them involved in sport in
the future.
Three statutory bodies –
Creative New Zealand, the
New Zealand Film Commission
and Sport and Recreation
New Zealand (SPARC) – receive
a percentage of Lottery Grants
Board funding every year to give
New Zealand’s best artistic and
sporting talent a helping hand.
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