WIN tickets to Red, White & Brass

WIN tickets to Red, White & Brass

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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

Auckland screen industry workers! Make your submission on the proposed budget cuts!

Auckland screen industry workers! Make your submission on the proposed budget cuts!

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

Wonderful Wellington: Westerby's new role

Wonderful Wellington: Westerby's new role

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

Greenlit industry survey results

Greenlit industry survey results

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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

Brigid Alkema steps up to chair Creative Council

Brigid Alkema steps up to chair Creative Council

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

ScreenSafe Professional Respect Training Workshop Auckland

ScreenSafe Professional Respect Training Workshop Auckland

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

Gardiner's comedy drama streaming now

Gardiner's comedy drama streaming now

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

Free tickets for a night at the theatre!

Free tickets for a night at the theatre!

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

VIDEO SLOT: On the couch with my depression

VIDEO SLOT: On the couch with my depression

Posted Tuesday 14 Mar 2023

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…

WIN double passes to Corsage

WIN double passes to Corsage

Posted Tuesday 28 Feb 2023

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…

Member profile: DOP Vanessa Vandy

Member profile: DOP Vanessa Vandy

Posted Monday 12 Dec 2022

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,…