Our final dispatch of the year concludes our Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals sortie. The festival roadshow continues, albeit in scaled-down format, throughout a number of regions nationwide until the end of November. See nzff.telecom.co.nz for dates and corresponding programme information. Those wishing to overview our three-month coverage should study the Festival Debrief, a summary of all TNZIFF features, reviews, form guide, and column entries for 2006.

Final Updates: IMOGEN NEALE talks to Emily Barcley, returning to the screen in We The Living, a new short film travelling the country as part of the Homegrown: Works on Film programme; and, in our post-festival overview, the editors and contributors list their Festival Favourites; SIMON SWEETMAN completes Week Two of his Festival by Day excursion; JACOB POWELL breaks down the 39 films he saw into Post-Fest Wrap #1; TIM WONG attempts to decipher the good from the great in Post-Fest Wrap #2; DAVID LEVINSON discovered the balance between art and life was as precarious as ever in Post-Fest Wrap '06.

The Festival Reader now returns to normal transmition.