New Zealand Film Commission News

On your marks, get set, GO!  PORK PIE announces cinema release date.

The Directors & Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) is delighted to announce the ten emerging women directors who will participate in its inaugural Women Filmmakers Incubator. They are:

Transmission Films is proud to launch the official Chasing Great film trailer. The trailer is available now here.

Filmmakers Adam Luxton and Summer Agnew worked across oceans and time zones to complete their second collaboration, On an Unknown Beach, for this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF).

Former Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has been appointed chair of the New Zealand Film Commission, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry has announced.

The theatrical trailer of The Rehearsal, Alison Maclean’s vibrant screen adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s debut novel has been released online.

NZIFF is thrilled to present the World Premiere of Alison Maclean’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s debut novel The Rehearsal.

An acclaimed documentary about the design and construction of a unique cultural building for the Tūhoe iwi will be be screened in Venice this month at the beginning of the city’s famous Architecture Biennale.  

Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople continues to break box office records, taking the number two slot in the list of highest grossing local films at the New Zealand box office.  At the close of business on Wednesday 27 Apri

25 April will screen in competition at the highly regarded Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June. It will join eight other films in the competition line-up, only one of which is also a documentary.

Approximately 12 months ago we launched the NZFC gender policy as part of developing a wider diversity policy.

The New Zealand Film Festival was launched in Shanghai on Thursday 21 April.

Ten New Zealand films are being screened at a biennial showcase of New Zealand cinema in China that should reach a theatrical audience of over 10,000 people in 42 screenings across three major cities.

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Leanne Saunders as Head of Production and Development. Leanne replaces Lisa Chatfield who recently left the NZFC for a role at Pukeko Pictures.

Taika Waititi’s adventure comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople has broken New Zealand box office records by opening with largest opening weekend ever for a New Zealand film with a box office take of$1,300,000 NZD.

The next generation of “Blondini Gang” have been announced.

Kiwi audiences will get their first look at the hotly anticipated documentary Tickled with the release of the films official trailer.

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) and China Film Co-Production Corporation (CFCC) are delighted to announce the joint approval of 3D animated family film, Beast of Burden as the first official feature film co-production between the two cou

The trailer for The Light Between Oceans has been released and showcases some stunning landscapes from New Zealand’s South Island.

A film co-production agreement between New Zealand and Israel was signed at the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) in Wellington earlier this week by New Zealand’s Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Hon.

Audiences got a tantalising first peek at Disney’s Pete’s Dragon with the release of a teaser trailer today.   

New Zealand films will be in the spotlight at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (GZDOC) which runs 7-10 December.

Human Traces has begun its second block of principal photography this week on the wild and remote Catlins coast on the southeastern South Island.