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The Taxpayers Union has said that the New Zealand Film Commission needs to stop giving out film subsidies – because they’re not good value.  According to numbers compiled by former boss of South Pacific Pictures, John Barnett, the Film Commission has spent a whopping $88 million of taxpayer money on 54 movies over the last few years. However, they only made $14 million at the NZ Box Office.   John Barnett told Heater du Plessis-Allan “Our stories need by told by us, and to us.”  Barnett said “We should be smarter about what we put our money into.”  LISTEN ABOVE.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.