Archive Feb 2020

Filmmakers here's a chance to get in front of financiers and distributors at Cannes this year. Breaking Through The Lens is inviting submissions to pitch at its 2020 event. Ten film projects will be selected and presented at an invite-only event at the Cannes Film…

You have just four days left to apply for the Script To Screen FilmUp Mentorship programme 2020, a nine-month professional development programme for practicing writers, directors and producers. A mentor for each filmmaker forms the cornerstone of the programme, along with six FilmUp Hub days…

If you're looking for something uplifting to watch, the Robyn Paterson-directed In The Zone, released in New Zealand cinemas last year, is now available via TVNZ OnDemand. The documentary film premieres in the USA next week with two screenings to honour Black History Month -…

NZ On Air said haere rā to its chief executive Jane Wrightson, who is leaving to become New Zealand's new Retirement Commissioner. For 12 years Jane has championed the creation of authentic media content that connects and reflects Aotearoa in all its diversity.

Can you offer accommodation to a third-year screen production student? Two Napier EIT students need a place to stay while they're interning in Auckland. One student will be working on Shortland Street in Henderson, and the other at Script to Screen in Sandringham. If an…

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If you're travelling in Europe this month, we encourage you to attend this WIFTI event, hosted by WIFT Germany at Berlinale, on 22 February from 10am-1pm, Meistersaal 39. The headline will be: How much Feminine Intelligence is in AI? Opportunities and risks of new technolo…

NZ Fringe is calling for submissions to its four-night Fringe Flicks event in Wellington. This is as an opportunity to showcase your short works (which should be less than 20 minutes long). They aim for a different line-up of shorts for each of the f…

We're glad to hear that last month's Sundance film festival showcased more works than ever from women. Now, reports The Guardian, a string of blockbusters is set to slowly level the playing field.

Fans of the Greta Gerwig adaptation of Little Women (in New Zealand cinemas now), can't stop talking about Marmee March's confession to her headstrong daughter Jo that "I'm angry nearly every day of my life." It's a line that had never been spoken on film,…

Emerging drama editors, here's your chance to work with editor Dan Kircher on feature film Millie Lies Low, directed by Michelle Savill, and produced by Desray Armstrong and Angela Littlejohn. This attachment would suit an experienced assistant editor/editor who has dramatic narrative editing experience on …

We hope you have your accommodation booked for the M?oriland Film Festival 2020! The full programme is now live online so check it out at the link below. This fabulous festival will open with producer Kerry Warkia's The Legend of Baron To'a, while f…

Check out this Screen Story Competition that Euroscript have just launched! To win �1,000 (about NZD$2000) and feedback from one of the UK's top literary agents, entrants must submit a prose summary of a feature length screenplay in no more than 750 words. Deadline for submis…

The Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) is looking for drama, documentary, animation or experimental short films by or about older women. Everyone is eligible to submit a film to Women Over 50 Film Festival - there's no upper or lower age li…

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Here's a sweet opportunity to win! Opening at selected New Zealand cinemas on 5 March, Honeyland is a portrait of a female beekeeper in the remote Macedonian countryside, and winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary. Filmmakers Stefanov and Kotevska filmed…

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One family. One weekend. One hell of a home video! It's wonderful to see Robin Murphy and Ness Simons' feature film Births Deaths and Marriages will be screening in local cinemas from 3 March! We were also pleased to hear that this independent Kiwi feature…

Screenwriters, sharpen your scripts! Online platform Filmarket Hub launches a new international screenwriting competition for English language TV pilots. The winner will be awarded with a cash prize (about NZD$1700) and will be offered a place in the final selection of projects chosen to pitch…

We were thrilled to hear that not only are all the Loading Docs teams are women, but four of them are members!  The filmmaking teams must first raise $2,500 on homegrown website Boosted.co.nz to unlock further funding from Loading Docs. It's an all or nothing…

It's fabulous to hear that feature documentary The Heart Dances, directed by Rebecca Tansley and produced by Tansley and Robin Laing, is an official selection in The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA - yes that's the correct acronym!) in Montreal next month. Now…

Kerry Warkia takes us through the fun and the odd frustration of producing her first action film, The Legend Of Baron To'a, on the eve of it's New Zealand release. The film is about a Tongan entrepreneur who returns to his old neighbourhood and inadvertently…

There was plenty of fury at the usual lack of female representation at the Oscars and Baftas this year, but how does that translate into positive change and diversity on screen? The Guardian's Kate Muir has five ways to encourage more women directors.

Excitement is building for the upcoming WIFT Awards! We announced the finalists for nine categories this week, and we've listed them below. Congratulations everyone!
Get your tickets now - don't miss out on this wonderful chance to celebrate women in the screen industry!