New Zealand Film Commission News

Patsy Reddy, NZFC Chair, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dave Gibson as the next Chief Executive of the Film Commission.  He replaces Graeme Mason who recently left the Commission to become CEO of Screen Australia.

Applications for the next round of Fresh Shorts open on Monday 12 May 2014, with the deadline on Friday 27 June 2014.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival held in Toronto celebrates the latest works by indigenous artists at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media and this year the focus was on New Zealand.

Congratulations to all the nominees in this year's Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards.

The nominees are:

FEATURE FILM 

Rialto Channel Best Film

Congratulations to the Mr Pip team on the film taking more than a million dollars at the NZ box office.

The New Zealand Film Commission is proudly supporting a new collaboration with the New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) for early script development.

We are pleased to announce our Digitisation Project.

New Zealand feature documentary Antarctica: A Year On Ice by Anthony Powell is gaining acclaim at festivals across North America.

So far the film has won a string of awards, including:

Sir Edmund Hillary epic Beyond The Edge has knocked off a record of its own, achieving the highest grossing opening weekend for any documentary in New Zealand.

We were thrilled to support three feature films screening in Toronto International Film Festival this year; Giselle, White Lies and Beyond The Edge.  

The New Zealand Film Commission congratulates filmmakers Jane Campion and Dean Parker, winners at the 2013 Macquaurie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards.

We are delighted that this year the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto has turned its international spotlight on Māori artists.

We seek training and professional development opportunities that progress careers and help to grow our overall industry.

ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT FUND

Amchitka
Stellafilm Ltd, Principia & Cinefinance Italia
NZ Producer: Robin Laing
Writer: Aubrey Nealon
Director: Christine Jeffs
$12,000

Film New Zealand has just been awarded first prize for its marketing stand at an international screen industry tradeshow in South Korea.

As you know, my term as Chief Executive at the NZFC will come to an end at the start of November, when I leave to take up the role heading Screen Australia.  The Board has a recruitment process for my replacement underway and I understand that they

Congratulations to the team behind Beyond The Edge, which was named runner-up in the People's Choice Award for Documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival.  The People's Choice Award nod comes after a successful Toronto world pr

Film New Zealand is enhancing the in-house expertise and services it offers to the international screen industry through the appointment of a new Director of Business Development and Enquiries. 

White Lies (Tuakiri Huna), the New Zealand Film Commission funded Māori language feature film written and directed by Dana Rotberg, has been submitted as the official New Zealand entry for consideration for Best Foreign Language film for t

We are proud to be supporting Sally Tran to intern at leading indie film production company, Killer Films.

We are pleased to introduce our new Development Executive Sean Carley.

Sean has a varied background that spans script development, screenwriting and production for both film and television.  

Stalker-rom-com How to Meet Girls From a Distance has been selected to screen in the 22nd Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival by the China Film Association.

We are pleased to announce the 16 short films green-lit for the 2013 round of Fresh Shorts.

It was yet another success story for the New Zealand contingent at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of Te Whai Ao 2013.  Te Whai Ao is a documentary development fund for emerging or experimental documentary makers.

We seek training and professional development opportunities that progress careers and help to grow our overall industry.

Here are the latest funding decisions for July and August 2013

PRODUCTION FUNDING:

We congratulate New Zealand filmmaker Yamin Tun, who will be attending this year's Student Symposium at the 40th Telluride Film Festival (TFF) in Colorado.

Seventeen year old New Zealander Natasha Bishop, the youngest filmmaker ever to have a film selected for the Japan Wildlife Film Festival (JWFF), is celebrating today after winning two awards at the festival.

The New Zealand Film Commission is pleased to announce a three year programme, commencing in 2013/14, to help new and existing screen sector businesses grow to the next stage.

The NZFC is pleased to support Libertine Pictures through our business development scheme.