Archive Oct 2021

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Te Papa Museum

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Play Creative

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Auckland Unlimited

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Sky TV

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Wellcom

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A44

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Hansa Chippers

Morag Brownlie's short film Perfect Storm premieres this week at two Oscar qualifying festivals. It was the opening film ahead of 36 hours of films in Greece's Thessaloniki Short Film Festival and will screen at the A-list Warsaw Film Festival tomorrow. It has also been…

The contested Auckland seat for the WIFT NZ board saw a very tight race between Kelly Martin, Jill Macnab, Irene Gardiner and Samantha Jukes. Kelly Martin and Jill Macnab kept their seats however, so the WIFT NZ Board remains: Vicky Jackways (President), Kelly Martin, Jill…

Here's more great home-grown viewing involving WIFT NZ members! The Pact screens from Monday 18 October on TVNZ OnDemand. The was created by Natalie Medlock and Harry McNaughton, and co-produced by Jo Raj with Harry under his Koha production company. It stars Irene Wood, Ian…

Written and directed by Matthew J. Saville (Hitch Hike, Dive), Juniper is Saville’s debut feature film starring Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling, Márton Csókás and newcomer George Ferrier. 

Sam (17) has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home…

A round of applause to the cast and crews of Rūrangi and Creamerie for their shows' nominations in the 2021 MIPCOM Diversify TV Excellence Awards.

Rūrangi was produced by Craig Gainsborough and is one of three finalists in the LGBTQIA+ / Scripted category. Season 1…

NZ On Air says it has been successful in securing access via the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to unspent funds from last year’s Screen Production Relief Fund. These funds are available through until end of June 2022, acknowledging that we may ping around alert…

Here's a new initiative from two of our valued members. Amanda Jenkins and Jackie Clark have teamed up as freelancers to help and enable you to shoot your projects down south. Spurred by the difficulties that come with filming in these Covid times and Auckland’s…

Jan Bieringa is the creative producer for this documentary on mercurial artist Theo Schoon, set to screen in the New Zealand International Film Festival. Directed by filmmaker and art historian Luit Bieringa (Ans Westra: Private Journeys/Public Signposts NZIFF 2006, The Man in the Hat NZIFF…

We're cheering for Celia Jaspers and her short film Milk, a short film about kindness, produced by Juanita Deely and Auriga Martin, which has been nominated for Best Screenplay in the 2021 Show Me Shorts Film Festival Awards. Winners will be announced on 17 October.

At the last WIFT Awards in 2020, South Pacific Pictures' CEO Kelly Martin (pictured) was announced as the Great Southern Film & Television Award for Outstanding Contribution to the New Zealand Screen Industry.

Who will receive the award in 2022?  It's up to you to…

Here's a shoutout to WIFTers who are receiving NZFC funding for their projects. The Letting Go, produced by Nadia Maxwell and Joika, co-produced by Belindalee Hope both receive production funding, while feature film Balance of the Five Elements, written by Marilyn McFadyen, receives funding from…

We were thrilled to see that INSiDE, a Sky New Zealand Original Production, was nominated for a 2021 International Emmy® Award in the category of Best Short-Form Series. INSiDE was the only Kiwi nominee - in fact, the only Australasian nominee - across all categories.…

Congratulations to producer Maddy Maxwell whose short film Blue Lake premiered at the Show Me Shorts Festival in Wellington last week and was online as part of Weird and Wonderful. Blue Lake, which stars Chris Parker and his sister Olivia Parker, will also screen in…

This will be the first one in a series of Sustainability Conversations WIFTI will be hosting the coming winter. President Helene Granqvist will be in conversation with Copenhagen-based creator Valeria Richter on love as a force and why conscious confusion is essential for cultural learning.…

Congratulations to those members whose feature film projects will be developed at the upcoming Script To Screen Story Camp Aotearoa 2021. We've listed you and your projects below.
This year Script To Screen received 76 applications which had to be whittled down to just nine! The…

Rebecca Tansley’s film of New Zealand Opera’s live production of Handel's Semele is opening in selected cinemas from 28 October, bringing the national company’s work to audiences across the country.

In particular the release enables the NZO production to be seen in the regions. 

And…

Congratulations to the team behind Blood & Gold. The locally shot short film from The Hot House in association with the NZFC will have its premiere at Show Me Shorts Festival. Set in the South Island in 1861, the film follows a woman on the…

Linda Niccol has shared some links to international festivals screening Poppy, the film she wrote and directed and which was released earlier this year. 

Produced by Robin Laing and Alex Cole-Baker, Poppy is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who refuses to…

This is an OPEN CALL! Hot Docs and Netflix are looking for your funniest, short, non-fiction story! Five filmmakers will receive $20,000USD to make a short doc, as well as mentorship from Netflix’s documentary team and other film professionals. They'll also receive a world premiere…

Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival has revealed its full programmes for the major cities and the regions, except, of course, Auckland. In case you missed the disappointing news, the Auckland leg of the NZIFF, due to open 28 October, has been cancelled due…

The 2021 Doc Edge Clinics programme comes to a close on Saturday 16 October, with a session about negotiation.

Hear from the people who’ve seen and done a truckload of deals, and know what works and what doesn’t.

The sessions are also available on-demand to…

The 2021 Aesthetica Film Festival programme is now available. Find over 300 films, 100 industry events and 100 speakers from across the globe. To read the programme, click here.

Aesthetica will take place live in the UK's York from 2-7 November and continue virtually until…

Sadly, but unsurprisingly, these two much-anticipated Awards gala parties have been postponed, the NZCS until further notice, and the NZTV Awards until February 2022.

The country needs to be at Alert Level 1 to hold such full-on events. What's more, the good people at the…

No matter how great your story is, if you don’t have a strong marketing campaign that sparks immediate interest, the project won’t get the amount of bums on seats or the eyeballs it deserves. A poster or trailer is an audience’s first introduction to a…

The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated the best of 2021 on television - and that means a celebration of writers!

Script Competition organiser and website BlueCat has compiled this year's award-winning writing, including The Crown, I May Destroy You, and Hacks.

Click here to read…

Movies give us shared stories which entertain, inspire and soothe us, and in trying times, this function becomes ever more essential.

In the 1940s, musicals provided a colourful escape from war, stories of rebellion in the 1970s gave hope to audiences losing faith in political…

Producer Desray Armstrong has been one busy wāhine. Her feature film Coming Home in the Dark was released in August and a second feature Juniper, directed by Matthew Saville and starring Charlotte Rampling, is due for release 28 October, having been delayed from August due…

It’s exciting to see that Kāinga has received funding from NZ On Air and that WIFTers are involved in this project. Following the success of feature films Waru and Vai, Kāinga will be an anthology of short films led by Pan-Asian filmmakers that celebrates the…

At the 2020 WIFT Awards, Annabelle Lee-Mather won the Images & Sound Award for Success in Television and Digital. Annabelle won for The Casketeers and her powerful work crafting and sharing award-winning indigenous stories and perspectives.

Who will it be in the 2022 Awards?

Nominations…

Tune in tomorrow from 7-8pm to this Pan Asian Screen Collective webinar on the topic of MoUs (Memorandums of Understanding) with Rūrangi producer Craig Gainsborough-Waring. It's part of the Episode One: Web Series Pilot Programme run by PASC and designed by screenwriter Shuchi Kothari.

A big woop woop! to the team of Juniper, produced by WIFT member Desray Armstrong and involving a number of other WIFT NZers. The feature film starring Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (45 Years, Hanna) has landed a number of key international sales, according to The…

Set the alarm clock because you just might like to rise early for this! It's free!

The prestigious Nostradamus Report, presented by media analyst Johanna Koljonen (pictured), is coming online to Copenhagen in this collaboration of WIFT International, Danish Film Directors and Copenhagen Web Fest.…

Spicing up enews this week is the Zoe McIntosh-directed music video Better Daze for new Kiwi band Hoss. Tammy Williams is on cinematography.

Check it out here - yeeowww!

Well done to the team at Hex Work Productions which received six NZ Web Fest nominations for its three documentary series, Scratched, The Single Object, and 100 Year Forecast. Each show was nominated under the Best Show (NZ Factual) category. 

WIFT member Madeleine Chapman (Sāmoan,…

Tickets are selling fast to this event so Wellingtonians, be in quick to get yours! Congratulations to director Lula Cucchiara whose feature documentary on artist Fiona Clark will premiere in Wellington on 18 November, as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. Lula also…

Bettina Hollings produced this story of a remarkable struggle over adversity. World-premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival and due for release in New Zealand cinemas in December, Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life reveals one man's battle, from a challenging childhood, to…

Here's a great incentive to film your project in Canterbury! The Screen CanterburyNZ Production Grant is the first of its kind in New Zealand, and will provide just under $1.5 million over the next three years to domestic and international productions that meet eligibility requirements.

RVK Feminist Film Festival has a simple aim: to strengthen female and non-binary film directors/makers. Held in Reykjavík, Iceland, the RVK FFF is now seeking submissions for its Sister Awards. If you identify as a woman, and have a short film, send it in now!

Boost Funding supports the growth of producers and screen businesses who have a slate of strong projects to develop, along with a strategic vision and a plan to deliver on it. The New Zealand Film Commission funds a slate of up to four projects, including…

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Glasgow this November, and has the potential to be one of the most pivotal moments of our lifetime.

Join albert, BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, STV and Natural Capital Partners in a series of events live…

There are just five days left to apply for this programme! Strength In Numbers is designed to teach screen practitioners about growing a sustainable and profitable business while doing the work they want to do. It aims to cultivate a community of savvy business people…

Kiwi students like watching and learning from short, funny and homegrown audio/visual content, according to new research commissioned by NZ On Air and the Digital Media Trust.*  

The study, conducted by Waikato University Associate Professor Geoff Lealand, found that 95% of Aotearoa’s teachers use New…

Hey filmmakers, VFX-ers, technical creatives! Here's a competition to spark your creative juices!

Nerdeo, Escape Studios, Autodesk and Wacom have launched a global VFX competition, inviting teams of junior creative professionals from across the world to publish a two-minute short film featuring VFX, using pure…

That's right folks, until midnight on 31 October, you will be able to find the entire programme on the Show Me Shorts On Demand platform for your viewing pleasure.

This is possible thanks to the financial support of the New Zealand Film Commission and the…

This event is the essential, free-to-attend, networking and conference event for all the screen industries. It’s live in London on 7-8 December with a virtual option 7-10 December.

Schedule 1-2-1 meetings (virtual or in-person), attend a packed conference programme and join live and digital networking…

Seats are filling fast for this workshop so  register now to get yours! Running from 18-21 January, 2021 this online workshop offers the chance for you to develop your sound design skills with one of the most in-demand and qualified sound teams for film in…