Archive May 2015

You're spoiled for choice with a great selection of New Zealand features and short films telling stories from a uniquely Kiwi point of view. Don't miss the Festival premieres of these homegrown documentaries.

Q Theatre Auckland 20 May - 1 June

Roxy Cinema…

Here is the latest from WIFT London member Stephen Follows.  It's rare for filmmakers to get a candid look at the books of someone else's film but that's exactly what you'll get to read today.

Papadopoulos & Sons tells the tale of an Anglo-Greek sel…

Don't miss your chance to meet Broadway Star Angelica Page at THE ROXY CINEMA, ahead of the opening of her award-winning international solo shows EDGE and TURNING PAGE at Circa Theatre - 6 to 20 June, directed by Tony Award nominee Wilson Milam.

Thursda…

WIFT member Fiona Powell would like to share the latest edition if her oniine publication WebShowCentral.TV
www.WebShowCentral.TV

TV and film is changing fast so Web Show Central.TV has created a central hub online dedicated to digital creatives and audiences called Web Show Central.TV…

Director/Producer Chris Pryor and WIFT member Miriam Smith are doing a Q&A tour with the film around NZ for the next month.

- 8pm Thursday 14 May, Light House Petone, Wellington - for bookings please visit - http://ow.ly/MG8zE

- 4.20pm Saturday 16 May, Alice Cinematheque, Ch…

Top local music videos for your viewing pleasure.

Show Me Shorts is celebrating NZ Music Month by accepting NZ music video submissions to the SMS 2015 festival for free during May! They are  also showing you some top local music videos in the Screening …

A huge congratulations to WIFT Board Member, and General Manager of Vendetta Films, Jill Macnab on being accepted into the highly prestigious Inside Pictures programme which takes 20 film 'future leaders' and trains them up. Jill is the first ever participant from Aus/NZ!

Inside Pic…

They broke everything but her spirit. They took everything but her dream.  An inspirational  true story on children's rights campaigner Christina Noble, a feisty and courageous Irishwoman who was forced into homelessness as a teen when abandoned by her father. As an adult, her compassi…

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SCREEN EDGE FORUM 29 May (AUT, Auckland) and 4 June (Park Road Post, Wellington)

The Documentary Edge Festival will be celebrating its 10^th Anniversary as Australasia's premiere international competitive documentary festival. Over the last ten years, it has showcased the best award …

Women in Film & Television (WIFT) NZ and the Wairoa M?ori Film Festival Inc. are proud to announce the 2015 WIFT NZ Mana Wahine Award recipient is one of New Zealand's most exciting newer producers, Chelsea Winstanley (Ngati Ranginui).

The award will be pr…

Our own Shoshana here at the WIFT office has written and is starring in

Looking at stuff in Clouds at the Tiny Theatre, Garnet Station, 85

Garnet Road, Westmere at 8pm, 13th-16th May.

"Looking at Stuff in Clouds is an insight…

TONIGHT! The Writer's Room TUES 26 MAY, 2015, AUCKLAND

Writing of any sort can be a lonely process. From that initial FADE IN, to hashing out that final, closest-to-perfect draft, writing a film is often a long and arduous journey.

How do you keep the…

We are excited to share that we have some very talented WIFT members involved in a number of documentaries at this year's Documentary Edge Festival.

The immensely popular and successful Hip Hop-eration, produced by Paul Jones, can be seen on Friday 29^th May at 8.30pm.…

HOT AIR, the longform documentary about the politics of climate change in New Zealand, produced by WIFT member Alister Barry, is now on Youtube for free.

After a sellout Wellington premiere at the International Film Festival, and nomination as a finalist in the …

Envy Studios, one of our lovely discount providers, has been the happy host for many a fabulous WIFT evening in Auckland. And we've immensely appreciated it!

We'd like to give everyone there a virtual high-five, and remind all individual WIFT members that they can re…

Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Maori film festivals, one of the top film festivals in NZ would like your support! Donate on BOOSTED towards the 10th anniversary of indigenous Maori films and film-makers in NZ. See the story in this issue with the full progra…

Now we're talking! Cannes may be underway but it's the Sundance line-up that NZIFF highlight in their first sneak peek for the year.

NZIFF audiences can look forward to seeing a whole raft of Sundance winners this winter see below for some titles t…

NAU MAI! NAU MAI! HAERE MAI!

Announcing the Official Programme of the

Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2015

Friday May 29 to Monday June 1, 2015 * Matariki

Queen's Birthday Weekend

Renowned master of clown and improvisation Giovanni Fusetti and comedian and climate advocate Tejopala Rawls are are making a series of five short comedy videos about global warming for use on social media in the lead-up to the climate negotiations in Paris this December.

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