Episode description
Episode description
Swindles, scams and deception take centre-stage at Wellington's highly specific documentary film festival
The Wellington Fraud Film Festival will showcase a collection of documentaries covering all types of deceptions. It's a topic that's become increasingly relatable for New Zealanders.
Next Monday in Wellington, some 150 people will fill the Roxy Cinema for a niche documentary film festival. But they won't be the usual film festival crowd of movie buffs - they'll be lawyers, police officers, bankers, and anyone else whose work deals with scams or fraud.
The Fraud Film Festival, an offshoot of the original version of the festival in the Netherlands, has been running in New Zealand since 2016. On the surface, it seems extremely specialised. But in reality, fraud is something that touches most people - a BNZ survey last year found that 87 percent of New Zealanders were targeted by scams in the 12 months prior…