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This paper includes gender information based on short films offered funding from the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) between 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2019.

This paper includes gender information based on feature films with financing offers of discretionary equity investment from the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) between 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2019.

A report outlining the aggregated results of a pulse survey of stakeholders undertaken in December 2019.

In this disturbing drama, a group of tough young men walk down a deserted street at night.  They're drinking and boasting about a fight. Kev, the younger brother, is sober and is clearly uncomfortable with everything that is going on.  When...

Joan lives in an isolated convent in rural New Zealand where she finds comfort in the simplicity of routine and the promise of redemption. However - on the eve of her consecration - Joan’s world is challenged when one of the girls is dangerously...

The answers to additional questions asked during the live webinar on 28 October 2020 relating to the $50M Premium Production for International Audience Fund.

A discussion document relating to the Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund which is part of the Screen Sector Recovery Package announced on 1 July 2020.

Director’s Statement: Sima Urale “On reading Coffee & Allah, I was immediately attracted to the main character Abeba, a Muslim Ethiopian woman, and her journey in a strange new land. Beingan immigrant myself, I could easily relate to the...

Gerry is young and restless and unemployed. He lives in an isolated small town in the far north of New Zealand, so when the car gives him the chance to head to a big city, he moves fast and starts looking for excitement. John is older and slightly...

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. In Chinese 

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. In both English and Chinese.

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. This version is in English only.

Here are the criteria for productions applying for the New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG) - International 1 July 2017. 

Pete's Dragon Uplift Statement.

This is the New Zealand Film Commission's Statement of Intent for the years 2013-2016

The document outlining Te Rautaki Māori in Te Reo

The document outlining Te Rautaki Māori in English

This is the New Zealand Film Commission's Annual Report for 2017/18

A guide to working with the Māori screen industry.

A guide to working with Māori in the screen industry.

Ngā Aho Whakaari's document on Working with Māori in Screen Production

Siblings in a colonial New Zealand household discover one snowy night that they are orphans. Henry, the impressionable middle child is haunted by the ghost of their abusive father. He resists his cross-dressing older brother's attempt to mother the...

A social commentary watching the lives of five 15 & 16 year olds as each “slice of their life” is revealed on the hour from 12 midnight until 5am. Sometimes real life needs no verbal explanation. Sometimes life gets in the way of...

A couple searches the West Coast bush for a wasps’ nest. He is a tracker of signals, but can’t seem to read what she wants. She cuts back a fallen tree to keep the fertile natural world at bay but when she comes across a dying mouse on her...

Dean returns to his small town home where he finds the tight-knit community is still against him. When his live-wire older brother Jon ignites local tensions the brothers retreat into the wilderness with their hunting gear.  As an old animosity...

This urban coming-of-age story begins when Leke (14) runs away from home after yet another beating from his frustrated father. Alone in the early hours of the morning outside a shop in Manurewa, Leke is approached by a young accolyte who takes him to...

We follow a writers’ meticulous morning routine as he prepares to conceive a great work of art. His list of preparations grows longer and more specific, revealing his love and obsession with writing, until finally, he sits down to write, feeling...

Shadow Cut is a poignant and lyrical drama centred on the intimate relationship between Boy and Girl, two teens drawn to a world beyond the restrictive walls of rural New Zealand. Boy and Girl decide to take the long way home after school. When Girl...

Set in the misty mountains of Lake Waikaremoana another generation is poised to inherit the land. With a heavy heart the old matriarch Nanny Oriwa sends for her grandson pinning all her hopes for the land and family on him.  Without hesitation...

The Old Man, The Budgie, & The Flea is the touching tale of 80-year-old Perry Smyth, who near the end of his life, is forced to confront his demons as his dreams slowly turn into regrets. He's been building a plane since the second world war...

Grey William is the story of Margie, a tour operator providing uniquely intimate NZ tours in her company van ‘Grey William’. But it’s a new, modern world which offers independence for travelers and, teamed the newer, larger tour...

This is a story about fear and fate, explored through the experience of both the victim and the perpetrator. A young woman home alone receives a call from a stranger, a young man asking her to the pictures.  She declines but later finds the man...

Louie and Darius are young practitioners of classical arts, living together in a small flat. Louie is a still-life painter, whose obsessive compulsive nature is reflected in his too-neat environment and slow progress. Darius is a zealous violinist in the...