Archive May 2021

Skydive Auckland have kindly offered to give the Screen Sector a special discount offer on a Skydive*. Take a leap of faith yourself or give it away - it could be a great gift idea for the adventurous person in your life!

This offer is…

Animated short film Trap has been scooping up awards at festivals around the world. Written by Kahra Scott-James (who also did the sound design), Trap has screened in more than 130 film festivals, and taken home more than 30 awards including Best International Animation at…

Our sympathies are with the family, friends and colleagues of former Rocket Rentals director, WIFT NZ member Aaron Hughes, who died in a motorcycle accident last week. For those of you who wish to attend, Aaron's funeral service will be held this Friday 14 May,…

The Artist’s Wife, is in cinemas 20 May, 2021, and we have five double passes to give away!

It follows Claire (Lena Olin), who lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising…

We're pleased to see WIFT members among the five successful screen projects selected in the first round of the New Zealand Film Commission's $50 million Te Puna Kairangi Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund.

Conditional offers have been made to:

Better the Blood (Drama Series,…

If you’re stopping work to have a baby, we will waive your membership fee for a period of up to 12 months while you're unavailable for work. This will operate by trust – let us know how long you are intending to be off and…

It’s great to see our members among those being funded by NZ On Air in its latest funding round for HEIHEI. NZ On Air has funded almost $2m worth of Aotearoa’s most-loved children’s shows in this round including news, creepy crawlies and a quirky local…

We're delighted to hear that Bayley Broome-Peake is shadowing DP Aaron Morton NZCS on an attachment on The Lord of the Rings Series. The three-week attachment is through the New Zealand Cinematographers Society's Cushla Lewis Gender Diversity Programme which aims to place women into short…

A big congratulations to all the winners of this award! You all did a wonderful job, and you all get a wonderful prize - a complimentary one-year WIFT NZ membership!  

We've listed you all below. 

Wellington

WIFT member Kathleen Winter for Jebivetar, one of the…

NZ On Air has greenlit 11 innovative new youth projects to be distributed through a variety of online platforms used by young audiences.

Up to $2.4m has been invested in content that will focus on youth voices, perspectives and issues in Aotearoa.

The projects were…

We bring you this award-winning short as a tribute to former WIFT NZ member Stephanie Sinclaire who died in Wellington last month.

Directed by Stephanie's daughter and WIFT NZ member Katherine Wyeth, who also co-wrote and co-produced the film with her mother, Goblin Market is…

Take note of this free event! Learn about scoring, songwriting and licensing your music globally at the inaugural Aotearoa Sync-Posium conference and workshop.

Organised by WIFT NZ member music supervisor Karyn Rachtman and music producer Greg Haver, this event will cover all areas of music…

The deadline for this round of feature film script development grants is 12 noon this Friday, so get those applications in people!

​The goal of these New Zealand Film Commission-funded grants is to create an opportunity for writers to create the feature film scripts they…

NZ On Air has announced the appointment of journalist Raewyn Rasch (Ngāi Tahu) as Head of Journalism, to lead the delivery of the new $55m Public Interest Journalism fund. 

The Head of Journalism role has been newly created to add specialist journalism industry knowledge to…

Having completed the jigsaw puzzle of scheduling screenings, the Doc Edge team has now released the Festival's full programme! 

There's been so much interest from Wellington that the festival has had to let out its belt a few notches and expand. The festival will now…

Director Chloe Zhao's humble and inspiring acceptance speech at the 93rd Academy Awards has likely won her many fans. Zhao, who won Best Director at the Academy Awards for her film Nomadland, which also won Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, is the first Asian…

Here’s your chance to hear accomplished cinematographer Alex Disenhof discuss his craft and approach to the collaborative work environment. In New Zealand shooting The Lord of The Rings Series, Alex has lensed over a dozen feature films and television shows spanning diverse genres.

Highlights include…

The Māoriland Tech Creative Hub has put out a call for rangatahi aged 18 – 24 for its M.A.T.C.H Intensifier Pathway to the Tech Creative Industry programme.

The tech creative industry is one of the fastest growing and includes animation, gaming, VR/AR/XR, film, marketing, architecture…

Here's a reminder from the Screen Industry Guild about working hours and weekends for production crews. 

The Blue Book contains the standard conditions for the engagement of screen production crew in New Zealand. This guideline document of best practice has been agreed to and endorsed…

Access media throughout Aotearoa are celebrating a milestone - turning 40 and launching a book about their history.

The grassroots network of 12 NZ On Air-funded community access radio stations has evolved over four decades years into an alliance of broadcasters that transmit daily in…

One week before the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, on Monday 17 May, the Mobile Film Festival has shared a selection of 13 short films from previous editions of the Mobile Film Festival that approach LGBTQ+ themes. 

Click here to watch

Image from…

Women’s Work - the free exhibition celebrating the work of 24 women photographers that we mentioned last enews – will now run from 29 May 29 - 1 June at the Ellen Melville Centre, Cnr High St & Freyberg Place, Auckland.

What it's all about
Saatchi…

Get in quick for the latest acting classes with acting coach Vicky Yiannoutsos. Her bi-weekly block of screen acting classes, combining cold reading and memorised techniques has proved so popular she is running another block in late May-July. There will be 10 classes over five…

The team at Doc Edge has been busy prepping for its fabulous festival – have you got your ticket yet?

The festival runs from 3 June – 11 July 2021.

Click here for information on ticketing

To get you in the mood, here are a…

Bluecat's Script Library is a wonderful resource and it has just added the Academy Award-winning Nomadland the film which helped make Hollywood history as Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour and second woman overall to win Best Director. 

Also available is  Promising Young…

This Zoom-based programme is aimed at boosting the knowledge and contacts of entertainment industry creatives and producers. Called Limelight – Accelerating through the International Film and TV Business with Angus Finney, it aims to help expand your knowledge of the changing industry, to accrue new…

What happens when the process of taking your film to market, securing international sales, attending festivals and ensuring an audience sees your film is disrupted by a pandemic?

Find out in Script To Screen's Taking Your Film to Audiences in a Covid World.

Georgina Conder…

Book your seat now for the second in the DEGNZ/PASC Director Takes Series, this time with Kiel McNaughton on 22 May. Director Takes puts a spotlight on leading Pan-Asian New Zealand directors, who share insights about the director’s role in the creative process, the delivery…

A big congratulations to all those who made it to the Grand Finals of this year's Vista Foundation 48Hours! We hope you've recovered from the filming weekend! WIFT NZ member Kathleen Winter's film Jebivetar will screen with 14 others on 22 May at the Grand…

Sharpen your technical knowledge of screen directing with this weekend-long course led by Shortland Street directing treasure, Jacqueline Nairn.

Kickstart your skills in screen arts through fuss-free, hands-on exercises. Participants will learn about shot coverage, shoot planning and the shaping of scenes with actors. Jacqueline…

Sit down with your favourite brew and have a read of this excellent article by The Spinoff. Duncan Grieve interviews TVNZ head Kevin Kenrick who reveals that the state broadcaster is "planning a major reimagining of its TVNZ OnDemand platform that will ultimately lead it…

Show Production Crew Coordinator
Weta Digital

Engineer- IT Devops/Automation Engineer
Weta Digital

Senior Creative
TVNZ

Multimedia Journalist -Māori Specialist
TVNZ

Video Editor
Glory League Stats

Senior Video Editor
Eyes and Ears

Producer
RNZ

Operations Manager 
Weta Workshop

Digital Media Support – Video
AUT

Podcast Engineer / Studio Manager 
The Spinoff

Broadcast and Production roles for…

The Write Room is seeking applicants for a producer internship position on the The Write Room programme, for emerging producers interested in up-skilling in feature film development. The internship runs part time from 10 June - March 2022, and is in Wellington.

A stipend of…

Funding Executive (Fixed Term) 

New Zealand Film Commission

Videographer 

Auckland Live | Auckland Unlimited

Real Estate Photographer 
Wide Photography

Video and Multimedia Producer 

University of Canterbury

Cinematographer / Editor 

Pure Productions

Real Estate Videographer 

Howling Wolf Media

Video Editor 

Glory League Stats Ltd

Videographer 

Gravity…

Weta Digital is looking to hire a Contracts Manager to join our Talent and Culture team.

As a Contracts Manager you will be responsible for facilitating the management of our crew contracts. Working in a fast-paced environment, we need someone with great interpersonal skills and…

Incentives Executive
NZ Film Commission

Incentives Coordinator
NZ Film Commission

Talent Development Team Coordinator
NZ Film Commission

Promos Producer Newshub / The Project
Discovery

Projects Specialist 
Tourism New Zealand 

On Air Coordinator (freelance contractor)
Discovery

Animation Director
A44 

Creative Content Specialist
Halter

Local History Curator (one year fixed term)

Technical & Production Coordinator
NZ Opera

Drama Tutors
Tim Bray Theatre…