Police were granted the right to preview and require changes to a feature-length documentary about the Marokopa manhunt under a formal access agreement with the film’s producers, newly released documents show.
Dunedin-based NHNZ Productions, working with UK company Grain Media, has been filming a long-running documentary on the search for Tom Phillips and his children, after securing “exclusive access” to the police investigation. Phillips was later killed in a shootout with police in September.
An “access agreement” released to state media under the Official Information Act sets out the terms under which police allowed the filmmakers inside Operation Curly and related inquiries. The contract, signed in March 2025, gave the production team wide-ranging access to police briefings, meetings, operational activity and evidence over more than a year.
In return police retained significant “editorial control”.
The agreement allows authorities to preview the documentary before broadcast and to demand edits or removals on grounds including operational security, privacy, sensitivity and compliance with court orders. Police also hold veto rights over repeat screenings or altered versions and may withdraw filming access at any stage.
The contract restricts the use of all recorded material exclusively to the documentary, unless written permission is granted by police. It also prohibits the use of images of the children beyond those already published, without consent from both their legal guardian and police, due to ongoing Family Court suppression orders.
All production staff were required to undergo police vetting, and the producer accepted liability capped at $1 million. The documentary is expected to air in 2027, subject to the outcome of related court proceedings.
Considering it took nearly four years to catch Tom Phillips
Despite multiple sightings burglaries and tip offs
This is fully understandable
Police given significant edit rights over Marokopa manhunt documentary
the same “police” who planned with “army” management to “ELIMINATE” Tom Phillips.
Then engaged army experts to track and shoot Tom – which they did
Then returned the children to their abusive so called called mother
Typical -just ask thousands of fathers whom have been through this – mothers prevent access to children with the ird paying them to do so and destroying fathers lives whilst they ruin children’s lives
Cop /ird Shit bags should be hanged!!!!!!!!
Very slowly
Control the narrative, bury the truth.
Spot on
Censorship in a growing Global, Zionist-based and highly-weaponised Police State…headed up by the Uni-Party with Nazional in the driver’s seat.
Just imagine what the censored 2026 (s)election will look like..!
The truth is the enemy of the lie
What we are here for
To learn to discern between evil and righteousness
Lies garnished with truth which dull the senses
And to navigate road blocks and stumbling blocks
Who have been given an advantage to grow Us up
REVEALED: Bullying Claims Rock Willie Jackson And Labour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9J6gPof9N8
I’m so surprised to learn that Willie Jackson is an evil lying self-serving racist twat.
Oh well, whatever. Next.
Call it nepotism, or to make it clear for mental low-fliers, call it tribalism, both by definition racist.
Only reason they would want that kind of power is because they have something to hide. Makes the Doco mostly useless.
I wont be watching it on principle.
I know first hand how certain police alter documents, present them to court as truth. Truth has a way of popping up on trial day and saying, “Surprise !! Sorry I’m late, but here’s the original document, your honor”.
A bit smelly to put it mildly.
Obviously the cops are not trying to hide anything.
That’s okay, we all already knew any commentary, documentaries or films about this man and his children would be biased, one-sided garbage not worth the time. No surprises here
Dunedin-based NHNZ Productions, a woke-as-can-be outlet, working with UK company Grain Media which is owned by an Orlando von Einsidel, also a woke-as-can-be flick outlet that does docus on fake White Helmets in Syria, invites poolice to censor. Surprise surprise.
What a sh*t show.
Well the documentary is not going to be about police failures to locate and capture Phillips over the four years. Clearly the purpose is to control the narrative.
Who gave police editorial rights?
This is not a police PR exercise. It is supposed to be the truth.
This is in Aussi, but the same horror is perpetrated EVERY day here in NZ:
https://v16m.tiktokcdn.com/3897b6163dddc811f19cbd6982bddcaf/69445b5e/video/tos/alisg/tos-alisg-pve-0037c001/ogQoAIpqeA84hRsJgQFgKrUDRf8xaMaEBEB8pI/?a=1233&bti=ODszNWYuMDE6&ch=0&cr=3&dr=0&lr=all&cd=0%7C0%7C0%7C&br=1032&bt=516&cs=0&ds=2&ft=bCkzAmI_PD12NA0~Zd-UxMO5GY6e3wv25icAp&mime_type=video_mp4&qs=0&rc=Nmg5aGY8MzdmO2VoaDw5aEBpM3JuOnY5cm50MzMzODczNEA1LS1fMl82XmMxNDNfNTQ1YSNsbmYxMmRjaGhhLS1kMTFzcw%3D%3D&vvpl=1&l=20251217033520A19DF7CE13D30C3F6549&btag=e000a8000&cc=3
Great link. Have been through the Family Court system and if one possess a penis and testicles then it’s an open and shut case excluding a member of the Foreign Actors Guild of course.
….. though if this poor guy had identified as a transgender things would have turned out very differently.