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February Board Meeting (Strategy Day)
EventThe February 2022 Board Meeting is a strategy day only. There is no Production Financing round associated with this meeting.
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Do No Harm
FilmDo No Harm explores the first corruption of a woman’s moral code. It is the short film prequel to a feature film project, Black Lotus. The strand pulled under pressure in Do No Harm leads to a more dangerous unravelling of humanity in the larger...
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Early Development/Documentary Development/Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Fund (January Round)Decision Date
EventEarly Development/Documentary Development/Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Fund decisions will be made by 5pm.
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Early Development/Documentary Development/Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Fund Deadline
EventThe deadline for Early Development/Documentary Development/Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Fund is 1pm.
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Te Puna Kairangi - Premium Fund Deadline
EventThe deadline for Te Puna Kairangi - Premium Fund is 1pm.
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Board Applications due 1pm
EventApplications to the Board for production financing are due at 1pm.
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October Board Meeting
EventOctober 2022 Board Meeting
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Board Applications due 1pm
EventApplications to the Board for production financing are due at 1pm.
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August Board Meeting
EventAugust 2022 Board Meeting
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Board Applications due 1pm
EventApplications to the Board for production financing are due at 1pm.
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April Board Meeting
EventApril 2022 Board Meeting
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Board Applications Due 1pm
EventApplications to the Board for production financing are due at 1pm.
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Balance of the Five Elements
FilmEverything in the universe is in a state of constant change; dynamic and infinite. Time, the seasons, nature itself; all are part of an eternal cycle. This is the basis of the ancient Chinese teachings of the Five Elements or “Wu Xing”; a...
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Guns Akimbo
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Come to Daddy
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Wayne
FilmWayne is the near improbable true story of 1987 World Motorcycle Champion Wayne Gardner’s triumphant journey from riding a $5 dirt bike to the summit of his global sport. At its heart Wayne is also a love story, with girlfriend, Donna-Lee...
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6 Days
FilmToa Fraser's second English-set film (following 2008's quirky drama Dean Spanley) dramatises a real life siege at the Iranian Embassy in London, when gunmen held 26 people hostage in April 1980. Fraser and Dead Lands writer Glenn...
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Atomic Falafel
FilmIt’s hard enough being a teenager, working in the family falafel truck with her mother, who’s in the ninth year of grieving the loss of her husband, but fifteen-year-old Nofar Azrian sells falafel to soldiers perpetually ready for war,...
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Turbo Kid
FilmA Canadian/New Zealand co-production, Turbo Kid is the world’s first post-apocalyptic coming-of-age splatter actioner with a dash of romance. A bloody but sweet-natured love letter to 80s nostalgia and the tale of an orphaned outcast...
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Slow West
FilmThe story centres on 17 year old Jay who has travelled from Scotland to Colorado to be reunited with the woman with whom he is infatuated. He is quickly confronted by the dangers of the frontier and so teams up with a mysterious traveller named Silas (...
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The Vintner's Luck
FilmThe Vintner’s Luck is a story of love, wine and angels; recounting the life of Sobran Jodeau, a peasant winemaker and his life-long ambition to produce a great wine - a wine that has never before been tasted. Set in Burgundy in the years spanning...
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The Strength of Water
FilmReleased in Kiwi cinemas in August 2009 - after winning praise at festivals in Berlin and Rotterdam - The Strength of Water marks the big-screen debut of Māori playwright Briar Grace-Smith, and Pākehā director Armagan Ballantyne. The film centres on a 10...
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The Ferryman
FilmThe Ferryman, a classic horror film set in the South Pacific, commenced principal photography on March 31 and wrapped on May 13, 2006. Filming took place on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, Waiheke Island, Birkenhead Point and Kelly Park in Wainui north...
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Perfect Creature
FilmPerfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth, set in an alternate version of the 1960’s. Science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant, action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings...
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In My Father's Den
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Nemesis Game
FilmA co-production between New Zealand, Canada and the UK, Nemesis Game began as an idea by director Jesse Warn to write a screenplay around the idea that riddles are a metaphor for life. Warn and his producing partner Matthew Metcalfe teamed up with...
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Bonjour Timothy
FilmBonjour Timothy is a comedic teenage love story from director Wayne Tourell. Timothy Taylor is your average teenage whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a French Canadian exchange student. Because of a simple spelling mistake on a fax, the...
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Cops and Robbers
FilmJohn is having trouble with his ex-wife. He's also bankrupt. And he can't find buyers for his warehouse full of parrots. Because of all these troubles, he decides to blow his brains out. But his suicide attempt is interrupted by a cute young cop...
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Alex
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The Navigator
FilmA young boy is afflicted by apocalyptic visions in medieval Cumbria. Believing he is divinely inspired to save his village from the Black Death, he persuades a group of men to follow him into a tunnel. They dig deep into the earth and emerge ... in...
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Whakawhanake Te Ao Niko - Interactive Development Fund Deadline
EventThe deadline foir Whakawhanake Te Ao Niko - Interactive Development Fund is 1pm.
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Screen Sector COVID-19 Capability Funding Deadline
EventThe deadline for Screen Sector COVID-19 Capability Funding is 1pm.
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When We Were Kids
FilmJade has joined her best friend Michelle for a day at the pools. She is in the throws of puberty, and she desperately wants to be older than her young thirteen years. Jade talks to a reluctant Michelle about sex, revealing she has heard her neighbours...
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Flip
FilmWhen we meet Flip she is living in a cycle of abuse with a beastlike soldier, Helmet. She has managed to keep her daughter Plug relatively safe, fed, alive and so far Helmet has not turned his attentions towards her. Plug is the light in her life, the...
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Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award Decision
EventThe decision date for Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award is 6 December 2021.