Archive Nov 2015

As a guest of WIFT for a Co-production Summit, with support from the NZ Film Commission, the remarkable Piv Bernth, Head of Drama for Danish Broadcasting DR has just been in Auckland. You may have seen her at the packed-out event Script to Screen…

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If you were lucky enough to see Piv Berth (see story in this issue) you will know all about The Legacy - so you will want to win this competition. Thanks to Madman we have THREE sets of this terrific series to give away.

Cycle powered cinema rides into Auckland city for the first time ever in a special free event screening of NZ film The Art of Recovery co produced by WIFT member Tracy Roe at Wynyard Quarter's Silo Park this Saturday November 14.

Cycle powere…

DDB and Showtools are giving one lucky winner the opportunity to direct a TV ad for DDB, 5 years Pro Membership to Showtools AND $2500!

Of course you have to work for it - so check out the details by clicking on this lin…

Time to get that submission into the Melbourne and Sydney film festivals 2016.

Sydney

The deadlines and details for Sydney can be accessed here: http://www.sff.org.au/submissions for full eligibility criteria and submission details. DEADLINE: Friday 26 February 2016

SUBMISSIONS: http://www.filmfestivallife.com/Sydney-Film-Festival

Melbourne

Plea…

Congratulations to long time WIFT member and past President, Catherine Fitzgerald who along with writer and director Tusi Tamasese (The Orator) started principal photography on their new collaboration  One Thousand Ropes in Wellington on November 9. We wish them all the best for a smooth…

Then you might be able to catch this TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING 2 DAY PRACTICAL WORKSHOP @ UNITEC

WITH: Christy Dena - award-winning interactive writer and designer

DATE: 12 & 13 November

TIME: 8.30am - 5.30pm

WHERE: Building 76, Unitec

COST: $250 total for…

Check out the attached article which shows that hiring a woman director means more women get jobs across a film - both in front of and behind the camera. Would be nice if they were paid the same as men too - but you …

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 passion that drives you to create, while giv…

Tickets are on sale now for the 10th annual Show Me Shorts Film Festival.  It launches with the gala Opening and Awards Night on Wednesday Nov 11 at the Civic before spreading to 22 cinemas around the country from Dargaville to Stewart Island.  The progr…

WIFT member Leanne Pooley's new film "25 APRIL" is having its Australian premiere at a special Armistice Day Screening at the Canberra Film Festival on�Armistice Day, November 11th.

The film will be introduced by Leanne and producer Matthew Metcalfe who are also doin…

Internship Program for Film & TV Production - Camera, Sound, Editing, LighitngBroadcast & Film New Zealand Ltd

Internship in a Film & TV production company. We currently supply trainees to reality TV.

Television Production ManagerPickled Possum Productions

Pickled Possum Productions is looking for a talented person t…

Any minute now you will be getting an email encouraging you to nominate some of your wonderful colleagues for the WIFT Awards 2016 which are being held on February 25 at the Heritage Hotel.  If we don't have nominations we won't have any awar…

You can slink off to this delightful film, BROOKLYN starring Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters. It opens across NZ on January 21.

View the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=moXpUBRw5l4

We have FIVE double passes to giveaway from Trigger Marketing (thanks gals for…

Female executives and filmmakers are ready to run studios and direct blockbuster pictures. What will it take to dismantle the pervasive sexism that keeps them from doing it?

Click on the link below to find out how our American sisters are facing up …

We are delighted to announce that WIFT members Philly De Lacey and Alyx Duncan were honoured at the recent Spada conference in Wellington.  Well done to two of film's brightest stars!

Independent Producer of the Year, sponsored by Crombie Lockwood
Philly de Lacey, Chief Exe…

K Rd Stories - a collection of 10 short web films about Auckland's iconic Karangahape Road, premiering on December 3rd is chocka block with WIFT members and of the 10 films in the series, five are written and directed by women! It was al…

The Last Night, a short film by WIFT member and Producer Wanda Lepionka won Best Cinematography at The Veterans Film Festival in Canberra on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2015.

Filmed in Wellington by CraftInc. Films and written and directed by David Strong. The Last…

We're running out of headlines to cover all the WIFT members who have picked up awards in the last couple of weeks.

One of most hotly contested is the Show Me Shorts awards and we are so delighted and proud to tell you tha…

If you are near Porirua tomorrow evening (Wednesday 25 November) get along to an evening of music and song, through a compilation programme of three short documentaries focusing on Pasifika musical output:

Mou Piri: A Rarotongan Love Song (2013,) is directed by WIFT memberr…

It's time�

Here is the call for nominations for the 2016 WIFT NZ Awards, and we are delighted to welcome NZ On Air on board for the first time as supporting sponsor.

We are also incredibly grateful to the wonderful following sp…

Production Assistant for Childrens' TV ShowPickled Possum Productions

Learn the industry from the ground up. Full-time contract work on production Sticky TV as Front of House.

Design Director - Join NZ's Largest Game Development Studio!Gameloft New Zealand Limited

Gameloft NZ is curre…