WIFT NZ News

The winners are:

Shrutika Gunanayagam, Micheala Rooney, Jacqueline Owens, Sacha Campbell.

You'll have a blast at this movie! We have five double passes to Red White & Brass thanks to our friends at Madman. RW&B has four wonderful WIFT members behind it: Georgina Allison Conder and Morgan Waru produced, while Ainsley Gardiner and Carthew Neal…

The Auckland Council’s proposed budget cuts will have a significantly detrimental effect on Auckland’s screen industry.

Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, the CCO that oversees the city’s major events, cultural activities and economic development would lose $44m of funding.

Screen Auckland is funded by Tātaki Auckland Unlimited and is therefore at serious risk.

Screen Auckland manager Matt…

On a more positive note, we congratulate Mark Westerby on his new role as Head of Attraction for Screen Wellington. It's a newly created role and Mark has been tasked with networking with the industry and lobbying on its behalf.  

Mark is the managing director of Kilbirnie's Taia Studios (the home of many a WIFT…

Many of contributed to the Greenlit survey and we hope you'll be interested in these comprehensive results. This is Greenlit's first industry survey on environmentally sustainable production practice in Aotearoa’s screen sector.

Click here to read the report

Greenlit

Congratulations to Clemenger BBDO Wellington chief creative officer Brigid Alkema who has been appointed the chair of Clemenger Group’s global Creative Council. M+AD reports that Brigid will continue in her role at Clemenger Wellington while now supporting and mentoring the group’s creative leadership across Australia and New Zealand.

“We are excited to see Brigid’s creative…

These workshops are fully funded and we encourage everyone in a position of responsibility to make the most of them and upskill accordingly.

This course will address predominately sexual harassment and also includes bullying, harassment, definitions, disclosures, and respectful behaviours in the workplace.
Be a part of this screen sector culture change and help make…

Here's something to add to your watchlists. Catch Not Even, a six part comedy drama series co-directed by Ainsley Gardiner (Ngāti Awa, Te Whānau-a Apanui, Ngāti Pikiao and Whakatāhea). The brainchild of Dana Leaming (Ngā Puhi, Te Rarawa), who co-directed with Gardiner, it focuses on a bunch of Māori and Pasifika friends living in the…

Support a fellow WIFTie and check out Tanya Wheeler’s new stageplay which debuts at The Pumphouse Theatre from 22 to 26 March.

It’s the award-winning Tanya’s third stage play and is based on events from her own life.

My Year With Lorraine is about two very different women who meet and become lifelong friends.

Two…

In our video slot this week is a film by Angharad Gladding.

Full of excited anticipation, a poet plans to go to a book party. Then along comes depression. A film about yearning simply to be able to clean your teeth and leave the house.

Based on the poem “I was going to go to…

Congratulations to our winners! 

1x Special Prize Pack (double pass, a coffee mug and tote bag)
Tracey Morley-Hall

3x double passes:
Amanda Evans
Ann Kidd
Renee Sheridan

Well you lucky members, we have a SPECIAL giveaway opportunity for you this week!

As well as a stash of double passes to see this acclaimed film, our friends at GDE…

Vanessa Vandy is a cinematographer and director who grew up in New Zealand and Finland. A former athlete who represented Finland in the 2008 Olympics as a pole vaulter, she fell in love with film while pursuing her other passion, composing music, which led her to compose several scores for short films.

Her directorial debut,…