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The Filmmaker International Travel Fund supports directors and producers to travel to international festivals and markets. What we fund Travel to key international festivals and markets to advance the packaging and financing of film projects. Grant...

The Distribution Fund helps distributors of NZFC-funded New Zealand films maximise the domestic theatrical audience. What we fund Financial assistance for domestic distributors of  NZFC-funded New Zealand feature films to help maximise the New...

We certify productions as New Zealand films for tax purposes.  You will require this certification if you are seeking an accelerated deduction under section EJ6 of the Income Tax Act 2007. A film will be certified as a New Zealand film...

In the throes of World War II, on a rainy morning in Auckland, New Zealand, a group of Allied soldiers prepare to take to the air in a B-17 Flying Fortress dubbed Fool’s Errand. The all-male crew is caught off guard by Flight Officer Maude Garrett...

Feature Film Post Production Investment helps exciting projects to get over the finishing line. What we fund Post production financing to help finish films for the big screen. This is in the form of equity investment, or a grant award, up to $500k....

Feature Film Production Investment supports our filmmaking community to make films that are loved by their intended audiences.  You can apply for a Production Investment of up to $2.5million for your film.   Full information can be...

What is discovered in these stories is emotion that has been long repressed in pain, smothered in shame, or disregarded as insignificantly personal in the context of the international disaster of war. The film begins with a tale that is almost familiar,...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Costa Botes "I originally conceived this idea around 1990 and sketched out most of the main sequences and narrative threads. About a year later, I mentioned it to Peter Jackson, and he was keen to get involved. Together...

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 NZ Film Commission supports filmmakers to develop their skills and projects in different ways, including grants for Placements and Project-based Development for Filmmakers. Placements NZFC Placement Grants support writers, directors and producers...

The New Zealand Screen Production Rebate is a government-backed screen incentives scheme, first introduced on 1 April 2014. Eligible productions can access a 20% cash rebate on Qualifying New Zealand Production Expenditure. A Post, Digital and...

We assist filmmakers to travel to key international festivals and markets where they can advance the packaging and financing of their film projects.

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As a Crown Entity, the New Zealand Film Commission is committed to transparency of government and the principles of freedom and availability of information under the Official Information Act (OIA) 1982.  Accessing Official Information The OIA...

“In uncertain times, in an age of increased mediation and synthetic storytelling, we will lean into the human. The medium of filmmakers is film, but the medium of the film industry is people. The value of the work is created in its meeting with the human...

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...

New Zealand in the 1830s is a Māori world, dominated by tribal wars. Seeking redemption from a dark past, lay preacher Thomas Munro (GUY PEARCE) is on board a trading vessel heading to the newly established town of Epworth, a British settlement at the...