An overview of the New Zealand Screen Production Industries including Film, Television, Gaming, Handheld and Internet.
The New Zealand International Film Festival 2011 (NZIFF) will screen 20 short works as part of the MIC Homegrown Short Film Programme. 2011 has been a successful year for NZ short films and many of the films selected have screened to acclaim at international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca in New York. [ Read More ]
Crazy Horses Merchandise on Native Vision: Its now or never – Native Vision are on their last print cycle of the Crazy Horses Range of clothing. Which means if you don’t get in quick you might not have another chance to get your patch and represent Crazy Horses in your area.
Pollywood Pasifica Short film Festival is now into its ninth successful year, this is an event to watch out for. With each year growing bigger and better, Pollywood has largely become a launching pad for Pasifika Film and multimedia art for the past 9 years. The core focus of Pollywood is to showcase and celebrate [ Read More ]
Manurewa, directed by Sam Peacocke, was awarded a Crystal Bear in the Generation 14plus Youth Section of the competition. The jury awarded the film the prize with these comments on the strength of the project: In a very short time this film synthesises and skilfully compresses independent story lines and characters, merging them together into [ Read More ]
Below is a listing of the top ten programmes on NZTV, recorded as of the 29th of January 2011 via Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.
At the HISTORY MAKERS AWARDS in New York on the 27th January 2011, Gaylene Preston’s feature film HOME BY CHRISTMAS, will be alongside a selection of many other promising historical films and television story telling produced last year.
If you loved the movie BOY, then you are going to love the merchandise even more. From the highly succesful NZ movie BOY, we bring to you the official Crazy Horse’s t shirts and merchandise. The totally unmissable movie of the year, director and star is the genius behind Eagle Vs Shark, Taika Waititi.
Ten finalists are waiting to hear if they have made the cut. Four teams will be chosen to make their low budget feature film with production finance of up to NZ$250,000. The four successful Escalator low budget feature film teams green lit for production will be announced next week via live stream from Wellington and [ Read More ]
Popularity and fame a definite surprise, but welcomed by all local NZ film makers debuting in the Doha Tribeca Film Festival . The visual effects supervisor for Weta does not usually get mobbed for autographs. Nor does he normally have people queuing to have their picture taken with him. That sort of crazed fan behaviour [ Read More ]
After days of uncertainty, John Key announced that the two Hobbit films would be produced in New Zealand after all. This came after 2 days of negotiations with the films producers who flew to New Zealand. Mr Key thought Sir Peter Jackson the film’s Executive Producer, would be a “happy camper” with the result of [ Read More ]