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The decision date for Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award is 6 December 2021.

In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her...

The owner of a quaint New Zealand yarn shop, Sophie Markham, gets her world flipped upside down after learning her top supplier of yarn, King Farms, is stopping production. Much to her surprise, the charming yet stuck-in-his-ways Samuel King has traveled...

Marketing whiz Lara Thompson is living a fast-paced life in the big city when she's summoned to the sleepy town of Kissing Falls to settle the affairs of her late Aunt Vivienne who owned a tea shop. Screen Incentives  New Zealand Screen Production...

The deadline for Catalyst He Kauahi is 1pm.

Set in small town New Zealand in the 80’s, Midnight Till 8 follows Cam, a 10-year-old boy who’s having trouble connecting with his father. He joins his dad on the Midnight Till 8 shift where home rules don’t apply. Cam helps with the...

As two Irish workmen scale the scaffolding of a London high-rise, their jovial storytelling, kindly lessons imparted and joke sharing rapidly descends into distrust, as the boss suspects his young apprentice of being involved with his wife. Upset and...

New Zealand audiences are able to experience Coming Home in the Dark at home early with a fast-tracked digital release to rent and buy now on  NZ Film On Demand, Apple TV and Google Play. Following its World Premiere at the...

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) welcomes the $37.5 million in Delta support for the arts and culture sector announced today by Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage (MCH), Hon. Carmel Sepuloni. As part of the support package...

In a world where a deadly virus is wiping out humanity, a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome is left in the care of her survivalist uncle. Frank, at ease with a gun and living off the land, has little sympathy for a kid like Izzy. The frosty...

3 Māori cousins. Mata, introverted, watchful, a seer of spirits, the child of a Māori mother and an abusive Pākehā (white) father. Makareta, raised to be the princess of her tribe, spoilt and educated in both worlds. Missy, cheeky, insecure and often...

Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi – The Premium Development Fund (‘Premium Development’) is designed to support projects that are ambitious and bold with significant international appeal and should represent a step change to support high quality productions...

On Wednesday 15 September the NZFC hosted a live webinar about Te Puna Kairangi - Premium Productions Fund Interim Production Round. The speaker was New Zealand Film Commission Co-Head of Te Puna Kairangi - Premium...

Round 2 of Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi -The Premium Development Fund opens today, Thursday 23 September with a deadline of 1pm, 14 October 2021.  Applications will only be accepted if they are submitted through the portal on the funding page of...

The deadline for Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi – Premium Development Fund is 1pm.

Honk if You’re Horny is a ribald comedy about tall stories and our bizarre need to pretend to be something we’re not, as well as the folly of being too quick to judge a book by its cover. On a rainy night in Auckland city, an enigmatic...

Inspired by a true story, Hot Mother is a is the tale of a single mother and her contemptuous daughter, who go to a spa retreat to spend time together. Set over the course of one afternoon, the pair seem unable to connect; the divide between them is too...

When arborists, Zoe and Tim find out they are having a baby, they resolve to not let parenthood change them. Tim runs towards being a Dad, while Zoe runs away from being a mum - trying to live out her long-deferred dreams. Terrified that her life won...

Hello, Here at the New Zealand Film Commission we fund the development and production of New Zealand films and we administer the New Zealand Government’s incentive scheme. We also support and encourage official and non-official co-productions to be made...

Growing the New Zealand film industry We support a diverse range of New Zealand and international stories to be told here and seen everywhere. We promote our talented individuals and our industry’s reputation for creativity, innovation and superb...

Tēnā koutou rau rangatira ma,  Kia tau iho rā ngā tauwhirotanga o te runga rawa ki a koutou katoa.   An extra opportunity for funding for the screen industry...

The deadline for Te Puna Kairangi - Premium Fund Interim Production Funding Round is 1pm.

  An extra opportunity for funding for the screen industry, supported by the guilds was announced on 30 August by funding agencies Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC), Te Māngai Pāho and Irirangi te Motu (NZ On Air). ...

The deliverables, by format, for the Premium Fund Interim Production Round.

The submission checklist for the Premium Fund Interim Production Round.

Join the New Zealand Film Commission and Script to Screen for a live webinar on Thursday 16 September at 5:30pm to hear about what's needed for Whiringa Tauatahi - Stage One and how to make your 2021 Kōpere Hou - Fresh Shorts ...

Zoe and Ollie are in love, freshly engaged, and long distance. A couple of goofy creatives doing things their way. With two cold beds to fill and vows of undying commitment looming, both agree to cheat on the other. A risqué experiment in love and a...

Woodenhead is filmmaker Florian Habicht's first feature, in which he was not only director but also writer, producer, co-cinematographer and co-editor. The entire dialogue and soundtrack for Woodenhead was pre-recorded. The visuals...

An intimate story of the birth of indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son Hepi Mita. The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010 led her son on a journey to uncover a story of a mother’s love that...

Sir Edmund Hillary’s incredible achievement remains one of the greatest adventure stories of all time; the epic journey of a man from modest beginnings who overcame adversity to reach the highest point on Earth. Both a classic triumph of the...

Acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog will have its world premiere in Venice on Thursday and has just been announced to premiere at Telluride Film Festival which runs 2 to 6 September. The much-anticipated film...

Tēnā koutou rau rangatira ma,  Kia tau iho rā ngā tauwhirotanga o te runga rawa ki a koutou katoa.   The CEOs of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga (NZFC), Te Māngai Pāho...

Up and coming Aotearoa New Zealand actor, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, was named today as a TIFF Rising Star at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Schuster-Koloamatangi stars as Will ‘Ilolahia in New Zealand mini-series The...

The deadline for He Ara Development is 1pm

The last light of a cold winter’s day sees Isaac, a 17-year old boy, traversing the vacuum of industrial wasteland and empty suburbia. Meanwhile a young mother worships in the warm sphere of a Sikh Gurdwara; her husband Navraj stuck working at the...

A gang member wakes up one morning and decides he needs a day off. Inspired by a newspaper advertisement he impulsively decides to take a short ferry trip between islands. With his tattooed face, black leather clothing, and prominent gang patch, the...