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Application Round dates: Open: Monday 14 July 2025. Close: Monday 4 August at 1PM Please read the funding guidelines for the application criteria, and how to apply. Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) invests in talented...

Minor updates have been made to the NZSPR Criteria for both New Zealand and International Productions, effective from 1 July 2025:   International Criteria   changes to the PDV Exception clause to make it easier for vendors to act as the...

Response to Official Information Act (OIA) request outlining questions around the NZFC’s international engagement, including the global trade mission and beyond. As an organisation, we welcome questions around our strategic direction, investment...

  Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) provides core operational funding for New Zealand screen guilds and industry organisations. This funding helps support these organisations to build networks, develop capacity and deliver...

Directed by Curtis Vowell (Baby Done, The Outlaws, Seize Them!, Fantail) and written by Sophie Henderson (Baby Done, The Justice of Bunny King, Fantail), Workmates is a funny, heartfelt love story starring Sophie Henderson (Human Traces, Fantail) and...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is doubling down on their global trade mission in 2025 by attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s business marketplace, Mifa, and solidifying its treaty partnership with Ireland.  This...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) announced today its plan to launch an International Placement Initiative giving local filmmakers the opportunity to apply for internships at selected global film companies in New Zealand, Australia, UK, and Ireland...

He Kauahi Catalyst aims to support New Zealand filmmakers to progress their talents to the next stage and make exceptional narrative short films that will ignite the flame and be the catalyst for change in their career. Round open: Friday May 30th...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) has announced they are accepting applications for the latest round of their He Kauahi Catalyst fund today.  The He Kauahi Catalyst supports New Zealand filmmakers keen to progress their talents to the next...

Siaosi resents Katherine’s presence and is resistant to her speech therapy sessions. Anxious for progress, Katherine enlists her Tongan boyfriend Maka to translate. During this exchange, Katherine unwittingly offends Siaosi, who sternly tells them...

Revenge of the Word Processors  is the story of a man who, while playing video games in his office computer, is attacked by creatures from it. He escapes and bumps into his boss in the corridor. She does not believe his story and returns to his...

A documentary showing the undertaking of a ten hour celebratory canoe voyage by the Tai Tokerau people of Northland. 100 paddlers journey from Waitangi to Whangaroa in a giant war canoe on a voyage of discovery and fulfillment. 

The brains responsible for (and subsequently seen in) Bad Taste belong to Peter Jackson - weaned on home movies, he became writer, director, actor and cinematographer. Then there were his mates - from their various different jobs, they...

Today's the day that the custody of Clare's son will be decided. Her son loves gorillas, but lawyers think they belong in a zoo. So does Clare's estranged husband, but he's the man who's ordered a singing valentine for his computer....

Waves have measured your arrival From the mirrored hearts in the moon Where the shores lap the skin Gods And all heaven cries in tune For blue Gods of mornings past Shall tonight dance in waters of fire Shattering veins of golden lust Sustaining...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Eel  is the story of a teenage boy who learns about the bush and old Maori ways from his great uncle while he's skipping school. This experience prepares him for life in ways traditional schooling may never have...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, in Variations on a Theme, actor and Play School presenter Rawiri Paratene adapts three short scripts to suit a marae audience.  In one a bored schoolboy exchanges verbal barbs with a teacher.  In another a...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Roimata tells the story of half-sisters, one raised in a rural area, the other in the city. The pair recoonect when the country-born sibling arrives in the city.  Before long, she has learned some harsh life lessons...

In a seedy waterfront bar, sometime during the '70s, a sideburned, bellbottomed singer begins his song. Sheltering from the rainy night, a man and a woman meet for the first time.  Or is it? Who are they? What brought them here? What bizarre...

A common garden sanil sets off on an epic adventure to claim a faraway lettuce. Many difficulties await him but nothing will stand in the way of his lunch... A quirky action comedy showing the world from a snail's perspective. This film uses time-...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Thunderbox tells the story of a boy learning about hypocrisy through his unusual relationship with his father. This was the film debut for director Lee Tamahori after a long career in television commercials. Tamahori...

It's the 1870s, and charismatic Māori leader Te Wheke is fed up by brutal land grabs. He takes up arms and leads a bloody rebellion against the colonial NZ Government. In the process he provokes everyone affected by his actions — threatened...

"Here's a film about a place you've probably never been to; possibly never heard of. A place of peace and beauty surrounded by the South Pacific Ocean.It has snow-covered mountains, lakes, sub-tropical beaches and a modern economy. Its 3...

Death Warmed Up was a grand prize-winner at a French fantasy festival, David Blyth's splatterfest marked the first of many horrors funded by the NZ Film Commission. It was also the first local showcase of the smoothly-flowing Steadicam camera.