Camille Keenan, who was on WIFT's mentoring programme last year, is a finalist in the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent in Australia's 2010 TV Week Logie Awards.
Congratulations are due to new WIFT member Barbara Sumner Burstyn of Cloud South Films, whose indie feature doco This Way of Life charted at number 13 last month on just 24 screens, for a running total of $118,348 after two weeks.
Vital Ingredients from Octopus Pictures, a small production company founded by WIFT NZ member and producer Tash Christie, has been selected by NZ On Air from 27 applications for its Ethnic Diversity RFP. The first series in this strand, Minority Voices, screened over the summer on TV One, and NZ On Air has congratulated WIFT member Julia Parnell from Butobase for delivering a unique insight into the lives of a variety of new New Zealanders.
Several WIFT members are among the production companies granted television funding in NZ On Air's March round. See the latest NZ On Air newsletter for full details.
Garry Little of WIFT NZ partner Digipost won the Lifetime Achievement Award last month at the 30th Axis awards for advertising creativity.