Archive 2023 News Archive

Executive Assistant to Producer
Firefly Films 

Senior Studio Manager/Content Producer 
AE Live NZ

Production Manager
Academy EX Education

Videographer
Whitebait Media

Content Researcher/Writer
Whitebait Media

Chase Producer
DISCOVERY NZ 

Director
The Arts House Trust

Videographer
Open2View

Video Producer
NZ Network

Marketing & Communications
Te Pou Theatre

Actors for contemporary comedy
Howick Little Theatre

The early bird gets the worm... BSS Early Bird Tickets are available now!

This 2-day event is an incredible line-up of local and international conversations, workshops, panel discussions and case studies sure to inspire and educate. This year's theme is Stepping Into the Unknown.

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Proud Voices on Screen is seeking script readers and actors with lived queer experience as part of their support for queer voices:

Actors will read the script, take part in an in-person table read and then a feedback discussion with filmmakers. The total commitment is…

Proud Voices On Screen is accepting expressions of interest from teams developing queer screen stories who are keen to take part in a table read or panel as a part of their development process!

Projects applying should be shorts, features or TV pilot episodes containing…

In this study of popular films and television, between the years of 2010 to 2020, conducted by Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, they found that on-screen ageism does exist. One of the many important findings is that “50+ women who are on-screen are…

The winners at the New Zealand Television Awards 2023 have been announced! Of the 37 categories, 20 WIFT members production companies are winners. Congratulations on all your hard- mahi!


Best Comedy
Educators: Season 3 Episode 1
South Pacific Pictures / TVNZ + and TVNZ 2


Best Factual Series
When…

A massive congratulations to the entire team of Lea Tupu’anga/Mother Tongue, directed by Vea Mafile’o, written by Luciane Buchanan, produced by Alex Lovell and Eldon Booth, for their selection into Sundance Film Festival 2024! The film will screen in competition in the International Fiction Short…

The NZ production of Miles from Nowhere has been very well received by audiences at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where it premiered as part of their TV series competition. Congratulations to the entire team of this production, directed by Ghazaleh…

Someone’s been busy, and it isn’t Santa (we assume, as he didn’t send a press release), it’s Robin Murphy! She has been producing Punch and Lowdown Dirty Criminals and managing the locations for TV series’ After the Party, The Gone, Sweet Tooth and One of…

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, written and directed by Jordan Mark Windsor & Sean Wallace, has closed the gap in their feature film funding with NZFC! This follows a trip by producer team Morgan Leigh Stewart, Alix Whittaker, Ilai Amar to the 37ºSouth Market in Melbourne…

The exhibition of GUO PEI: FASHION, ART, FANTASY is on until May 2024 at the Auckland Art Gallery, and back in 2018, Pietra Brettkelly made Yellow is Forbidden, an extraordinary documentary whose subject was Guo Pei! The film was the New Zealand selection as Best…

There’s this hot little event taking place next year, that you won’t want to miss…

This little event is the... WIFT AWARDS 2024!!! Last week the judges gathered to review the nominations.

29th February 2024 is the date of the awards, so put this in…

The end of 2023 comes with changes for the NZFC:

After 18 years Jasmin McSweeney has resigned from Head of Marketing and will be taking on a new role in the industry! Katie Baker is also leaving NZFC as the Legal and Business Affairs Manager…

We want you to enjoy your holidays...and we want to remind you that these funding opportunities are just around the corner.

Documentary Development Fund, which supports the development of documentary films that have the potential to become compelling cinematic releases.

Monday, 15 January 2024 -…

NZ On Air has allocated $23.5m for this upcoming round where applications across Scripted, Non-Fiction and supported Content Development will be considered. Also, in this round are opportunities for Capability (Industry skills and training initiatives) and Discoverability (industry events and awards). This funding is open…

The team at The Sugarworks Postproduction (Birkenhead) is offering a comprehensive half-day workshop in Avid.

The focus of the course will be on documentary projects and looking in depth at how a productions material (rushes in particular) can be managed and ingested for smaller budget…

NZFC has released new information on what is to come for 2024. At the SPADA Conference in November they spoke to these changes. This presentation is accessible through this audio recording, see here.

Outlined below are some details of the projected changes:

They will be…

Season 10 of Loading Docs has its doors open for Expressions of Interest!

The theme this year is ‘Te kimihanga, te hahaunga’  –  ‘Attention’ challenging you to uncover and showcase the unseen beauty and potential in our complex surroundings.

For submissions they are asking for…

Kai Whakatairanga (Marketing Manager)
Māoriland Charitable Trust

Partnership Manager
Letterboxd

Line Producer
Kevin & Co

Executive/Office Assistant
Eyes & Ears

Photographer
Wētā Workshop

Digital Content Creator
Garage Project

Production Assistant
Storymaker

Production Manager
Tai Huri Films Aotearoa

Creative Producer
Wētā Workshop

Executive Producer
Discovery NZ Ltd.