The Film Commission is out of touch with the rest of New Zealand. While the rest of the country are scrimping and saving, these bureaucrats are having party after taxpayer-funded party.

If four staff parties in a fortnight wasn't bad enough back in May, now four Film Commission staffers have managed to blow $145k in just a fortnight putting on lavish, boozy soirées for Hollywood bigwigs on the French Riviera.

And even if they do bring film productions to New Zealand, taxpayers end up with the raw end of the stick. Subsidies this year alone are forecast at $86 million.

We don't pay our taxes just so bureaucrats and filmmakers don't have to pay for their own wine and canapés. Sign the petition below to call cut on the Film Commission's grift.