Congratulations to the following members of WIFT NZ whose teams have been selected by the New Zealand Film Commission from among 251 applications to attend the Escalator Low Budget Feature Film boot camp in June: Juliet Bergh and Jessica Charlton (with Philip Thomas), Bonnie Slater (with David Coyle and Paul Wedel). Following on from boot camp, four of these teams will be offered production finance of up to $250,000 for one of their project ideas. New applications for Escalator will next be sought in March 2011. Some general observations of the applications, which may assist filmmakers with future submissions, can be viewed at www.nzfilm.co.nz/escalator.