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Advanced Development Fund
The Advanced Development Fund supports film projects that are at an advanced stage and are almost ready for market.
Feature, Documentary
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Boost and Boost Up Funding
Boost and Boost Up Funding supports the growth of producers and screen businesses who have a strategic vision in a fast-changing environment and a plan to deliver on this.

Feature, Series Drama, Documentary, Interactive and Virtual Reality
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Distribution Fund
The Distribution Fund helps distributors of New Zealand films maximise the domestic theatrical audience.
Feature
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Documentary Development Fund
The Documentary Development Fund supports documentary films that have the potential to become compelling cinematic releases.

Feature, Documentary
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Early Development Fund
The Early Development Fund supports early draft feature film scripts or treatments that have the potential to be great New Zealand screen stories.
Feature, Documentary
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Feature Film Finishing Fund
The Feature Film Finishing Fund helps independent filmmakers over the final hurdle of post production and into cinemas.
Feature
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Feature Film Production Investment
Feature Film Production Investment supports the making of diverse New Zealand feature films that are original, exciting and culturally significant.

Feature, Documentary
Equity Investment
He Ara Development Fund
The He Ara Development Fund supports established filmmakers to tell authentic and exciting Māori and Pacific Island stories on screen.

Feature
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He Pounamu Te Reo Māori Feature Film Initiative
He Pounamu Te Reo Māori Feature Film Initiative is an annual fund for the production of narrative feature films in Te Reo Māori.
Feature
Equity Investment
Hunga Taunaki ā Rorohiko Online Mentorship Programme
Talent Development funding supports the development of sustainable and successful career pathways. Mentorship is one of the most effective means to support filmmakers to progress their careers.
Feature, Series Drama, Documentary
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International Co-Development Fund
The International Co-Development Fund (ICF) provides a total of up to $400,000 per financial year to support New Zealand screen practitioners who are working with an overseas partner on developing feature films and series drama.
Feature
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Lower Budget Feature Films
The Lower Budget Feature Film Initiative is aimed at lower-budget projects that want to break boundaries.
Feature, Documentary
Equity Investment
New Zealand Screen Production Grant
The New Zealand Film Commission administers the Screen Production Grant on behalf of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Feature
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Post Production Fund
The Post Production Fund helps exciting projects to get over the finishing line.
Feature, Documentary
Equity Investment
Producer International Travel Fund
The Producer International Travel Fund supports producers to travel to international festivals and markets.
Feature
Grant
Raupapa Whakaari Funding - Drama to the World
Raupapa Whakaari Funding is a joint initiative between the New Zealand Film Commission and NZ On Air and has been designed to develop high-end adult drama series that will appeal to the international market as well as New Zealand audie
Feature
Grant
Seed Grants
New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) Seed grants offer an opportunity for writers to develop feature film scripts without a producer attached.
Feature
Grant
Te Rautaki Māori Feature Film Initiative
This unique investment initiative has been created to attract and encourage new and emerging Māori voices, as well as promote authentic representation of Māori characters, stories, places, history and culture and support high quality films
Feature
Equity Investment
Whakawhanake Kiriata: Māori Film Development Funds
Whakawhanake Kiriata: Māori Film Development Funds focus on different areas of project development, providing for Māori specific outcomes.

Feature, Documentary
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