New Beginnings for the Guild

Our departing executive officer Fritha Stalker did a fantastic job with planning this issue of NZTECHO. However, her completion of it was not to be with her daughter Iris’ arrival a little earlier than expected. So firstly a big congratulations to Fritha on the birth of her little girl – we wish her all the best. It’s also a good opportunity to extend a warm welcome to our new executive officer Karla Rodgers. She is already off to a great start in what will be an exciting new chapter for the Guild.

Somehow, between Karla, designer Justin Westgate, vice president Sioux MacDonald and me, we managed to get this magazine out. What can we say, better late than never.

We talk to crew from Attitude TV in our cover feature. The film and television industry is hard enough to work in for a fully able person so there is much to be said for those with physical disabilities. We also step back into the production unit to give further insight into some of the issues surrounding it in a two-part series following from issue 51. Lawyer Tim Riley gives useful advice in how to deal with his own kind while Steve Barr looks into immigration rules impacting the industry in New Zealand.

Along with the changeover of executive officers, the Guild has moved out of the Macaulay St office in Newton. A room in Karla’s home is the new Techos ‘control centre’. Otherwise it is business as usual – the phone number, email and postal box address have not changed.

We are very pleased to get this edition out. Hope you enjoy it.

Carolyn Brooke, Stand-in editor