New Zealand Film Commission News

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has finished for another year with the New Zealand contingent having racked up a number of successful screenings.

Congratulations to all the finalists in this years WIFT NZ 2014 Awards

What We Do In The Shadows finished its reign of Sundance and Berlin, winning over audiences and critics alike and has now moved on to South By Southwest

NZFC POSITIVELY PASIFIKA IN WELLINGTON

Important New Zealand film UTU Redux (pictured), new short Eleven and the highly anticipated What We Do In The Shadows have all been selected to screen in the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.  The

The New Zealand Film Commission is pleased to announce the first recipients of the Professional Development Services Programme.

We'd like to congratulate the following filmmaking teams shortlisted for Premiere Shorts 2013 by the Executive Producer groups.

PRODUCTION FUNDING

We are pleased to be able to support individual filmmakers as well as work alongside industry organisations to provide valuable training opportunities.  

Film New Zealand is delighted to announce Z for Zachariah, a film being produced by Hollywood star Tobey Maguire, and his production company Material Pictures along with Palomar Pictures and Zik Zak Filmworks, is be

The New Zealand Film Commission and Film New Zealand welcome changes to the structure and level of support for New Zealand screen incentives bringing more financial assistance for mid-budget level New Zealand productions and encouraging more internation

The Government today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation that will see the next three Avatar films made in New Zealand.

The New Zealand Film Commission is pleased to release its Annual Report 2012/13.

This year the NZFC supported a record 13 feature films, 22 short films and administered grants for a further 25 film and television productions.

Congratulations to all the nominees, finalists and winners at the Rialto New Zealand Film Awards.

Here is the list of those who took home Moas:

American film crews visited New Zealand and rubbed shoulders with their Kiwi counterparts without even having to leave home when they were guests at a special event at “The Book of New Zealand,” hosted by Film New Zealand. 

Congratulations to the team behind New Zealand film Tatarakihi: The Children of Parihaka, which has won the Special Recognition Award at the 2013 Balinale Film Festival.  

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