The Film Commission is facing heavy scrutiny for its celebratory spending.

It's been revealed it spent close to $17,000 on four parties last year - welcoming and farewelling incoming and departing chief executives.

Jordan Williams from the the Taxpayer's Union says anyone trying to do that in the private sector would be marched down the road.

He says he highly doubts the last Government would defend it.

"The whole point of this agency, as best we can tell, is to use taxpayer-funded champagne to coax another Lord of the Rings. But they're not even doing that."

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