Feature Film Production Investment
At the May 2023 Board Meeting, the NZFC Board approved a conditional offer of additional equity to one feature film.
Joika
Producers: Belindalee Hope, Tom Hern and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska
Writer/Director: James Napier Robertson
Extended Screen Production Recovery Fund
The NZFC approved grant funding for one new application:
After the Party (Series Drama)
Producers: Helen Bowden, Liz DiFiore, Peter Salmon
Director: Peter Salmon
Lead Writer: Dianne Taylor
The fund remains open for applications for direct costs due to COVID-19 events affecting productions before June 2023.
Premium Contingency Fund
The COVID-19 Subcommittee approved conditional equity to one application:
After the Party (Series Drama)
Producers: Helen Bowden, Liz DiFiore, Peter Salmon
Director: Peter Salmon
Lead Writer: Dianne Taylor
Feature Film Finishing Grant
Three applications to the Feature Film Finishing Grant have been approved:
Ms. Information
Logline: A polarising pink haired scientist reveals that being a woman, expert and leader can be a dangerous formula in dangerous times.
Producers: Alex Reed and Phillida Perry
Director: Gwen Isaac
Pacific Mother
Logline: Having fought hard to get the birth she dreamed of, free diver Sachiko Fukumoto connects with other ocean-women battling for a world where all people are supported in their birth choices.
Producers: Migiwa Ozawa and Shin Yamaguchi
Executive Producer: Alex Reed
Supervising Producer: Karin Williams
Writer/Director: Katherine McRae
Brown vs Brown
Logline: A son explores his late father’s mid-century, modernist architecture and the tension between the Regionalists – (looking at a New Zealand vernacular) and his group the Internationalists (looking at the best the world had to offer). Something even made him change his name. We find out what, and more about this fascination time in New Zealand’s architectural history.
Producer/Writer/Director: Simon Mark-Brown
(The fund remains open for independently financed films who meet the criteria including for distribution and reaching audiences).
Advanced Development Funding
Two applications to Advanced Development Funding have been approved:
Bad House
Producer: Sue Thompson
Writer/Director: Andrew Beattie
Holy Days
Producer: Emma Slade and Victoria Dabbs
Writer/Director: Nathalie Boltt
Boost Funding
Boost Investment Funding supports the growth and sustainability of mid-career to experienced producers and established screen businesses with a strong slate of long-form screen projects.
We received over twenty eligible applications for Boost 2023 with a total ask of over $1.5 million. The overall calibre of the submissions from producers and screen businesses was extremely high.
All applications were assessed on the strength of slate, track record and expertise of the key business personnel and the strength of the applicant’s business model, following the Boost funding guidelines.
Eight applicants were successful in receiving Boost funding this year, with a total award of over $580k:
Bloom Pictures — Alex Reed
Greenstone TV Ltd — Harriet Crampton
Kevin and Co Ltd — Cam Bakker
StellaFilm Ltd — Robin Laing
The Down Low Concept Limited— Nigel McCulloch
This Too Shall Pass Ltd — Chelsea Winstanley
Wheke Group/Jawbone Pictures — Reikura Kahi
Yalla Media Ltd — Alex Lee