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Incredible Film Festival declared "dead"
Friday, 28 May 2004, 2:33 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Beck's Incredible Film Festival, directed by Mr Anthony Talbot Timpson, is dead! As the festival website states: may it "Rest in peace" (see gravestone plaque!). More >>
Government Censorship Bill Goes Soft on Filth
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 3:37 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society wants the Minister of Justice, the Hon. Phil Goff, to immediately dump a controversial change contained in a Government Bill that proposes changes to our censorship laws. It also calls on him to make amendments that clearly define the ... More >>
Govt Bill’s Negative Impact on Children
Monday, 24 May 2004, 3:15 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is very concerned about the negative impact of clause 134A on children’s sexual activity, family life and society, should it be enacted into law. More >>
Government Censorship Bill Has Problems
Friday, 14 May 2004, 3:59 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society presented its concerns yesterday to the Government and Administration Committee over the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Bill More >>
Government Bill on Objectionable Content Problems
Friday, 14 May 2004, 8:54 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society presented its concerns today to the Government and Administration Committee over the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Bill – a Government Bill. Society president Mike Petrus, who attended, says: More >>
“Political Fallout” if Civil Union Bill Proceeds
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 3:30 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society predicts that there will be massive political fallout if the Civil Union Bill and the Recognition of Relationships Bill (also referred to as the Omnibus Bill), which the Labour-led Government is planning to shortly introduce into Parliament, ... More >>
Complaint re TV3’s Gratuitous Violence in “Scream”
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:27 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society has lodged a formal complaint with TV3 with respect to its screening of the R16 horror film “Scream” at 8.30 p.m. Monday 23rd February 2004. This film was a favourite of the Columbine Killers. The Society maintains that TV3 breached ... More >>
The Passion: Response to Rationalists & Humanists
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 5:50 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (Inc.) repudiates the misrepresentations of its own Scoop media release dated 7th April 2004, made today by the NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists (Inc.) in its press release, but thanks this religious ... More >>
Response To Chief Censor Bill Hastings
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 2:17 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The fact that the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, Mr Bill Hastings, has the audacity to describe the dropping of the rating of The Passion of the Christ as ‘setting a “new benchmark” for acceptable levels of violence in films’, (NZPA 6 April) raises ... More >>
The Passion Of The Christ Submission
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 1:11 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Re: “The Passion Of The Christ” Submission To The Film And Literature Board Of Review More >>
Censor Uses Listener Column To Slur The Passion
Monday, 5 April 2004, 10:01 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In an article in the Listener (27 Mar. – 2 Apr., 204 p. 12) entitled “What I’m Reading”, Bill Hastings, the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, made comments that raise serious questions about his suitability to hold this statutory appointment. He wrote: More >>
Canada & Ireland Censors Show Way For NZ
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 10:51 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Parental Or Adult Guidance On The Passion Of The Christ By Canadian And Irish Censors Shows Way For Revised NZ Censorship More >>
Society Defers Passion Of Christ Review
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 9:26 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The NZ distributor of the film "The Passion of the Christ", Hoyts Distribution, has contacted the Society this afternoon informing it that it will be seeking a review of the R16 classification decision issued by the Office of Film and Literature Classification ... More >>
Classif. Options Open for Passion of the Christ
Friday, 27 February 2004, 3:26 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (Inc.) disputes Chief Censor Mr Bill Hasting’s inflexible views expressed on radio that “no child” – defined by him as those ''under 16 years of age'' - should ever be allowed ''within a mile'' ... More >>
Censor Blind To Merits Of "Passion Of The Christ"
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 3:20 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
''In the movie [The Passion of the Christ] Christ’s eyes are pecked out by a raven while he is still alive. That is not in the Gospel'', says Chief Censor Bill Hastings, as quoted in the NZPA report published today in the Dominion Post (25 Feb. p. A2). More >>
SPCS Appeals Passion of Christ R16 Classification
Monday, 23 February 2004, 12:25 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society applied on Friday 20 February to the Secretary of Internal Affairs under section 47(2)(e) of the Films, Videos and Publications Act 1993 (“the Act”) to be granted leave to appeal to the Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”), ... More >>
TVNZ Producer Breached Law Screening Irreversible
Friday, 13 February 2004, 4:36 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The screening by TVOne contract programme producer, Mr Dave Slade, of the brutal sex -violence film “Irreversible” to a group of TVNZ staff members in May 2003 in the making of a current affairs documentary which screened on Sunday night 1 June ... More >>
Appeal On French Sex-Violence Film – ''Baise-Moi''
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 9:42 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (SPCS) lodged a Notice of Appeal (see Appendix II below) with the Court of Appeal late Monday afternoon, 8 December 2003, against the decision of the High Court of New Zealand dated 11 November 2003 ... More >>
Ugly Decision of BSA - Attack on Children’s Rights
Tuesday, 29 July 2003, 2:09 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Mr Peter Cartwright, Chair of the four-member Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA), signed off a decision dated 24 July 2003 (released to the media today), that declined to uphold a complaint brought by the Society about the film The Ugly - broadcast ... More >>
Paroled Rapists And Prostitution Reform
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 2:46 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Recently paroled rapist Michael John Carroll, described by prison staff as “one of New Zealand’s most dangerous men”, has spent “well into five figures” using prostitutes at a Wellington massage parlour. Living in a military fantasy world, he has been ... More >>
