Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Here's some upbeat and note-worthy news! Our corporate member SAE Auckland has teamed up with Education & Bass, the online music production educator, meaning SAE Auckland students now have access to a huge range of online courses and lectures pertaining to music production. Students be…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/partnership-gives-access-to-online-music-production-courses/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Here's a timely offer from Rebekah Wilson at Source Elements, a recording, monitoring and broadcast solutions company that allows media professionals to work at home. Rebekah says Source Elements can help with remote recording, monitoring and approval for anyone working with sound, and also a…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/sound-solutions-for-working-from-home/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
We're thrilled to see that member and former board member Teremoana Rapley is back in the studio and asking the question we all want answered! Check out What's Going On? her recently released self-directed and self-edited music video featuring two of her sons, one niece…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/video-what-s-going-on-teremoana-rapley/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Yes, there's good news for screenwriters! You have until 20 April to get your submissions in to the 12-week Wellington Write Room residency, which is run in partnership with Toi Poneke Art Centre and Wellington City Council. The programme offers a Wellington screenwriter 12 weeks…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/apply-for-the-wellington-write-room-residency/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Calling all documentary makers! WFTV member Kathryn Hubbard works for Guinness World Records and would like to spread the word that GWR is looking to expand its catalogue to include programming made by third-party producers. So, if you've made a documentary that shows amazing and…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/guinness-world-records-wants-your-documentary/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
The good folk at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision want you to know that they're still available to answer queries and to action supply requests for titles that are already digitally preserved. Requests that require access to the unpreserved collections or to our equipment are…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/nga-taonga-sound-vision-archives-still-accessible/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
The DEGNZ Women Filmmakers Incubator will be going ahead online during the COVID-19 crisis, so get your applications in before 5pm on Friday 17 April, 2020. The Incubator comprises five one-day workshops across 2020 with the first scheduled to take place in May. Participants need…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/apply-now-for-the-emerging-women-filmmakers-incubator-2020/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
More options for your viewing pleasure throughout the month of April, from the Rialto Channel!
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Wednesdays, 8.30pm, from 1 April
An epic exploration of cinema history, through the lens of some of the world's greatest directors - all…
Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Let's give a big lockdown round of applause to Matasila Freshwater, Morgan Leigh Stewart and Vanessa Wells who were selected for the Script To Screen 2020 FilmUp Mentorship Programme! Technology is making this Programme happen remotely so all the best for those online calls…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/members-in-script-to-screen-s-2020-film-up-programme/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Thanks to Kat Lintott of Wrestler for sharing this! The New Zealand Police and Wellington Paranormal have teamed up to provide some important COVID-19 messages... and a little bit of humour to brighten your day #stayhomenz.
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Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Check out this selection of fabulous documentaries from Arts Laureate of New Zealand, Sundance award-winning and Oscar-selected filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly. You do have to pay a small fee to watch some of them but what a great way to support a fellow filmmaker!
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/watch-pietra-brettkelly-s-docos-online/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Here's the wonderful Magda Szubanski from The Power of Inclusion Summit. If you've watched this already, watch it again! If you haven't, now's the time - it's sure to put a smile on your face!
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Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Here's a pleasurable and easy way to learn Te Reo Māori. Produced by the lovely Karen Te O Kahurangi Waaka-Tibble for Kura Productions, in partnership with South Pacific Pictures for Māori Television, this series began screening in 2010. We love it!
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Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
From IMDB, this uplifting very short video says everything that needs to be said about what a director looks like!
You'll need to scroll down a little to the Women Directors Onset video to watch. Of course there could be a few New Zealanders in there,…
Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Petra Leary takes her hidden superpower to the sky, focusing her lens on becoming the world's top aerial photographer. Produced by Morgan Leigh Stewart with an all-women camera crew, Bird's Eye follows Petra, who's now an ADHD NZ Ambassador, as she sets out with her…
Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
DEGNZ says there will be free Associate memberships until 1 October 2020 to every New Zealand director, editor and assistant editor, member or non-member, who is facing financial hardship and cannot afford membership. All Membership Holidays will be due for paid renewal on 1 Oct…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/degnz-covid-19-membership-holiday/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
A special message for creatives from the New Zealand Police!
"We are in lockdown for at least a month. During that time there will a huge amount of social media content created by a wide range of people and for different purposes.
For New Ze…
Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
A quick message from the team at Māoriland Film Festival: if you purchased tickets to the festival online you will have received an automated email from iTicket to confirm a refund or alternatively your choice to donate your ticket purchase to the Māoriland Film Festival.…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/maoriland-film-festival-ticket-refunds/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Your fellow WIFT members are multi-talented and working on a variety of stories! This issue we share some of their work with you. If you want to be showcased in the next issue, send an email to office@wiftnz.org.nz. Let's help our fellow WIFTi's by dri…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/show-us-your-work/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
The simple act of swallowing must be re-learned for many people who've had a stroke. Maggie-Lee Huckabee (pictured above) and her team at the University of Canterbury Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research are world-leaders in stroke rehabilitation, cough-reflex and swallowing disorders. Together they…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/video-maggie-lee-s-story/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Calling all filmmakers, you have just two days to get your applications in for earlybird submissions to the 15th Annual Short Film Festival! Every year, The Smalls explores a new theme with a special submissions category and this year the theme will be focussin…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/the-smalls-film-festival-seeks-your-application/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
All dressed up with nowhere to go - this Marlon Williams music video Beautiful Dress is a great example of self-isolation music, directed by Charlotte Evans.
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/a-music-video-for-your-bubble/Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
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Posted Wednesday 01 Apr 2020
Film data hound Stephen Follows shows how important inter-country collaboration is to the production sector in this research which shows which countries most frequently team up on co-productions.
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/which-countries-co-pro-the-most/Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Here's more award-winning viewing, but this time for your kids, by screenwriter and producer Tanya Wheeler and the team at Girl Viking Productions. Made with NZOA funding, RESET is about a young boy named Justin and his friends who must find a way to save…
Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
In a climate where many film festivals are cancelling or postponing, Doc Edge is moving its full 2020 festival and industry event programme online. The festival, traditionally presented in Auckland and Wellington, will now be available to everyone in Aotearoa, and at this…
Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
It's the age of COVID-creativity! Thanks to Sam Ramlu managing director of creative agency Method Digital for sharing these useful and giggle-inducing WFH (working from home) graphics.
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Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Award-winning viewing is just a click away thanks to New Zealand Arts Laureate Leanne Pooley, ONZM. Check out Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls (right), Beyond The Edge, 25 April, Haunting Douglas, Try Revolution and Finding Mercy among others.
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/watch-leanne-pooley-docos-online/Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Here's a fun way to get kids using their devices for something truly productive during lockdown. Miss Conception Films (a partnership between Ainsley Gardiner and Georgina Conder) is running a short film competition for kids and teenagers up to the age of 16. Kids …
Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Documentary filmmakers, can you spare 20-25 mins to fill out this survey from the Whicker Awards? To say thank you, they will be surprising one lucky respondent with 1x complimentary pass to Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021.
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The Women Over 50 Film Festival is looking for drama, documentary, animation and experimental short films by or about older women. Submissions are open until Wednesday 15 July, 2020. There's one main rule: your entry must have a woman over 50 at its c…
Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Alleviate your boredom in bite-sized chunks and watch these shorts, rated by the team at the British Independent Film Awards as Britain's best in the last 10 years.
Click here to watch for free!
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/news/news-archive/2020/apr/watch-britain-s-best-shorts-of-the-decade/Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
The Shore Scripts Short Film Fund deadline is fast approaching! You have until 2 May 2020 to get your submissions in. The Fund offers an opportunity for emerging screenwriters and filmmakers to have their short film financed and produced. Submissions from screenwriters and filmm…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/call-for-submissions-shore-scripts-short-film-fund/Posted Monday 13 Apr 2020
Here's a great initiative from DEGNZ to help address the challenging work situations many of us find ourseles in right now. DEGNZ has compiled a database of members who can carry out editing, colour grading and effects work with equipment they have at hom…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/degnz-helps-you-get-hold-of-an-editor/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
If you're feeling a little low two weeks into lockdown, this will help lift your spirits. Marvellous Miryam Jacobi and a couple of fellow creatives have put together a short campaign video to encourage people to keep holding on, telling each other th…
Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
Travel may broaden the mind, but (since we can't do that at the moment) so will reading about other cultures. Check out the latest book by Louise Tu'u, We Fit the Criteria, which is on pre-sale now. The educational textbook showcases two…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/tu-u-releases-her-latest-book-of-plays/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
This is a fabulous opportunity for M?ori filmmakers from rangatahi to those who are established to turn your brilliant idea into a production-ready project!
Pre registration is necessary - only invited filmmakers will be able to pitch on the day.
You mus…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/the-m-oriland-pitch-is-now-online/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
Put this date in your diaries! On 24 April Boosted Live is going live. It'll be a place where you can live stream your creative mahi (be it a reading, a 'living room' dance, a gig in your bedroom, or a showcase of …
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/boosted-to-introduce-live-streaming/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
If you're a producer who identifies as M?ori, Pasifika or Pan-Asian, and you have credible producing experience and a slate of projects in development, then this bespoke screen development training programme may be right for you. The programme is led by Sue Masli…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/screen-development-production-training-for-m-ori-pan-asian-pasifika/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
Does your creative itch need to be scratched? The organisers of the VF 48Hours filmmaking competition have devised a mini-filmmaking challenge for you and it's on this weekend! Yes, that's right folks, shoot weekend for the VF48Hours is 7pm Friday 17th April…
Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
We're delighted to see so many WIFT members' projects funded in this latest funding boost from New Zealand On Air for creatives in lockdown.
Nine creative teams have been given the green light to create fresh new content to entertain New Zealand audien…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/wifters-shine-in-nzoa-lockdown-funding-round/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
The New Zealand Film Commission has extended its business support funding and, together with He Ara, can now offer up to $1million for up to 27 businesses. It has also confirmed development funding of $750,000 from ongoing programmes. The increased funding, through the BOOST sc…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/nzfc-increases-funding-to-screen-industry-businesses/Posted Wednesday 15 Apr 2020
If you'd never heard of Zoom before March 23 it's likely you'll be very very familiar with the online meeting app by now! Our friends at SAE shared a fun pic (above) of a class meeting showing that despite lockdown the school's creative comm…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
You may soon spot a few changes to classification labels and programme information on your free-to-air TV screens. How and when we watch television has evolved and the Broadcasting Standards Authority and broadcasters are acting to keep up with the times.
From 1 May…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
DEGNZ is running a Zoom seminar with acting and directing coach Miranda Harcourt on Sunday 10 May. If you haven't applied, get in quick because applications close at midnight Thursday 30 April! The interactive seminar is aimed at emerging directors (with short film/commercial/web series credits…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Congratulations to members who received funding from NZ On Air in its 'Fresh Opportunities' funding round. NZOA is fast-tracking into production a diverse range of new content ensuring there's a pipeline of work for the production sector post-lockdown (and during lockdown where safely possi…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/wifters-shine-in-nzoa-fresh-funding-round/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
And a round of applause to these members who received funding from NZOA to renew their entertaining and educational shows for kids on HEIHEI.
Gibson Group up to $249,000 for Creepy Crawly Cooking.
Greenstone TV up to $239,967 for Kitchen Science 2.
Tikilo…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/wifters-funded-for-educational-kids-programmes/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
We're thrilled to see the telefeature Runaway Millionaires scooped up a nice collection of medals at the 2020 New York Festivals Film & TV Awards. Produced by Carmen J. Leonard and Deborah Cope, Runaway Millionaires is the gripping true story of Kara Hurring an…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
The Smalls Film Festival is back for its 15th year, taking over London's Shoreditch from 4 - 7 September, 2020. There are seven categories to enter, plus the special themed category, which this year is 'Action and Activism'. There's also a special discou…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Staying put because of the Coronavirus does have a bit of a bright side: it's the perfect excuse to indulge in some armchair travel via your device. Fancy a bit of Shakespeare on stage? A tour of the British Museum? Or an opera perfo…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Te Uru Wait?kere Contemporary Gallery, in partnership with Christina Houghton and Melissa Laing, is releasing Walking About performances online for free. Walking About is a contemporary art series that explores the relationship between walking and art. Artists explore how we might walk tog…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Today's video slot is filled by Bayley Broome-Peake, and filmed while the country was in Level 4 of lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Bayley took to the streets - well, the end of her driveway - to interview the locals…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
They're calling it the toughest, most brutal competition yet! The Vista Foundation 48Hours gave contestants just three days' warning that the competition was on, so there was not much time to prepare. After 48 hours of blood, sweat and not much sleep, 12…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/vf-48hours-to-screen-on-tv-in-may/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
The Screen Sector Strategy is still open to feedback and the deadline has been extended to 5pm on 8 May, 2020. Remember, your voice matters!
Click here to take the survey
Here's an interesting discussion on the strategy, part of Create Wellington's Screen Sector…
Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Here's something a bit special courtesy of our friends at Ng? Taonga. Ng? wai e rua: Stories of Us takes a look at encounters between M?ori and non-M?ori dating back to 1901. It features some of our country's unique stories, ranging from important national even…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/watch-stories-of-us/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
A warm shout-out to writer director Matasila Freshwater, one of the six inaugural recipients of The Arts Foundation Springboard funding and mentorship. Matasila will be under the mentorship of filmmaker Tusi Ta…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/freshwater-wins-springboard-funding/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
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Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
The Rialto Channel has an exciting lineup of short films for May: the Women's Adventure Film Tour is a celebration of inspiring women doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure.
Click here for more info and to watch the trailer!
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/news/news-archive/2020/apr/marvellous-viewing-for-may-on-the-rialto-channel/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
The Guardian reports that more than 20 film festivals around the world have joined together to stream movies for free on YouTube since the Coronavirus pandemic closed cinemas and forced the cancellation of various festivals. The 10-day We Are One: A Global Film Festival will feature content cu…
/news/news-archive/2020/apr/international-film-festival-to-combine-and-stream-content/Posted Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
It's fabulous to hear that writer/director April Phillips' latest short The Last Man On Earth has been selected to screen at Screamfest, the largest and longest running horror film festival in the US. Filmed at Wellington's Avalon Film and Television Studios, The Last Man O…
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