Wellington film maker Sam Kelly has won the inaugural New Zealand International Film Festival best short film competition. His film, Lambs, which is set in the Porirua suburb of Cannons Creek, was awarded the $5000 Madman entertainment jury prize. Announcing the prize at Auckland’s Civic Theatre last night, juror and Madman Entertainment representative Michael Eldred [ Read More ]
New Zealand Film and Television Awards
August 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 9:34 am Press Release: Screen Directors Guild This press release discusses the concerns over the New Zealand’s Screen Directors Guild (SDGNZ) regarding misinformation about the Film and Television Awards. In 2005, as a service to the screen industry, the SDGNZ decided to run the film and television awards after several years [ Read More ]
NZ feature film Mr Pip to be shown at international film festival
July 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New Zealand feature film Mr Pip is to premiere in a special presentation section of the Totoronto International Film Festival. Hugh Laurie, the star of the award-winning television series House, plays Mr Watts, a teacher on war-torn island of Bougainville who reads children Great Expectations. The novel written by New Zealander Lloyd Jones was short-listed [ Read More ]
WORLD PREMIERE IN BERLIN FOR ROBERT SARKIES’ TWO LITTLE BOYS
January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Robert Sarkies’ latest feature film, Two Little Boys, has been selected in competition at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, which will run February 9th – 19th this year. The film will screen in the Generation section of the Festival and will be judged by two juries: a young person’s jury which awards the prestigious Crystal Bear [ Read More ]
New Zealand short film to premiere in international competition
January 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
NEW ZEALAND FILM TO PREMIERE IN COMPETITION IN FRANCE New kiwi short film, LAMBS, has been selected to screen at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – widely regarded as the world’s premiere short film event. LAMBS was selected from over 5,000 worldwide submissions. Funded through the New Zealand Film Commission short film funding initiative, Fresh Shorts, LAMBS tells the [ Read More ]
THE ORATOR (O LE TULAFALE) IN SUNDANCE’S SPOTLIGHT
December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Debut writer/director Tusi Tamasese’s Samoan language film, The Orator (O Le Tulafale), has been selected to screen in the Spotlight section of the 2012 Sundance International Film Festival. The 2012 Sundance Film Festival runs from 19th – 29th January in and around Park City, Utah. The Festival is widely regarded as the premiere US showcase for [ Read More ]
Weta Workshop update – Adventures of Tintin and The Hobbit
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Adventures of Tintin has launched in Europe and there have been loads of reviews and articles in international media – The Daily Mail described it as “Spellbinding”. See the best bits at the Weta website and on Facebook. The Art of The Adventures of Tintin book has also been released alongside the film. The [ Read More ]
OPERATION 8 DOCUMENTARY TO SCREEN ONLY ON MAORI TELEVISION
October 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Maori Television is presenting the free-to-air exclusive premiere of the critically acclaimed New Zealand documentary OPERATION 8 – which looks into the 2007 anti-terror raids. The documentary screens on Sunday, 30 October at 8.30pm, four years after the nationwide raids that resulted in 18 arrests and just weeks after the Government passed controversial covert surveillance [ Read More ]
Kiwi Flyer wraps up filming in Nelson
September 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Inspired by the Nelson Trolley Derby and shot entirely in Nelson KIWI FLYER is a feel-good movie for the whole family. Twelve year old Edward Hall stars as Ben who sets out to win the derby in memory of his father. Tandi Wright is his mother Karen, trying to keep that memory real, while fending off [ Read More ]