• FACT SHEET Multipartite Co-Productions

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    Issue date: 10 Feb 2025

    Co-productions involving more than two territories are referred to as multipartite co-productions. This fact sheet provides advice and examples.

  • FACT SHEET Co-Production Certification - The Assessment Process

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    Issue date: 10 Feb 2025

    This document details the assessment process and criteria for Official Co-production Certification.

  • Co-Production Treaties & Arrangements

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    Issue date: 10 Feb 2025

    Below are New Zealand's current co-production treaties or agreements with Australia, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland, The Republic of Korea, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and...

  • Short Film Festival Marketing Guide 2025

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    Issue date: 10 Feb 2025

    The latest guide designed to help answer your most frequently asked festival-related questions and to support targeted release strategies for short films.

  • NZFC Statement of Intent 2024-2028

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    Issue date: 2 Jul 2024

    The NZFC's Statement of Intent for the years 2024 - 2028

  • Terms of Trade

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    Issue date: 3 Feb 2025

  • Feature Film Production Investment FAQs

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    Issue date: 3 Feb 2025

  • Feature Film Development Guidelines Scripted

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    Issue date: 31 Jan 2025

  • Feature Film Development Guidelines - Documentary

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    Issue date: 31 Jan 2025

  • NZFC Deliverables

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    Issue date: 31 Jan 2025

  • Māori Content Information Sheet

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    Issue date: 3 Feb 2025

  • NZFC Code of Conduct

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    Issue date: 31 Jan 2025

  • 5% Uplift – Sustainability Resources

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    Issue date: 18 Oct 2023

    The 5% Uplift now requires productions to submit a Sustainability Action Plan and report on their carbon emissions.   Productions can use the tools and resources developed by Greenlit and the Sustainable Production Alliance to draft these:...

  • Help, I'm Alien Pregnant

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  • Rochelle

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  • Bookworm

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  • My Friend Michael Jones

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    Michael Jones (MJ) is the ridicule of his high school peers. His obsessive compulsive need to fingertap doorframes before entering and avoid cracks in the pavement make him a target for relentless bullying. Chief among his tormentors is Selena. When MJ...

  • Collecting demographic data at the NZFC

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    Issue date: 27 Jun 2023

    Collecting demographic data at the NZFC High quality demographic data about the screen sector is vital for the NZFC to better understand the make-up and needs of the industry, and to help develop policies that will support a diverse and inclusive sector...

  • I See You

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  • Head South

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  • Dame Valerie Adams: MORE THAN GOLD

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  • Annual Report 2023/24

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    Issue date: 29 Nov 2024

    This is the NZFC's Annual Report for 2023/24.  

  • Milk of Dreams

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  • Never Look Away

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  • Kōkako

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    Isolated in the New Zealand wilderness, Ashley is an aspiring ornithologist in search of an extinct bird called the kōkako. When a brief moment of cell phone coverage connects her with home, she learns that her grandmother passed away and that the...

  • Whetū Mārama – Bright Star

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    For Māori, the canoe underpins our culture. “ If it wasn’t for the waka we wouldn’t be here today and that’s the long and short of it” (Hek Busby) We once built waka/canoes from giant trees and sailed the vast Pacific by...

  • Whale Rider

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    Set at the East Coast town of Whāngārā, Whale Rider tells the tale of a young Māori girl, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), who challenges tradition and embraces the past in order to find the strength to lead her people forward. Niki Caro's second...

  • The Whole of the Moon

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    One day while skating he suddently collapses and is rushed to hospital where a series of tests progressively disclose he is suffering from bone cancer. He is subjected to chemotherapy and watches as his friends shy away from him and his dreams of...

  • Kiwi Flyer

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    Kiwi Flyer is inspired by the Nelson Trolley Derby which takes place annually in February/March. The derby is an institution in the Nelson community and attracts a crowd of thousands every year. Eclectically designed trolleys of all shapes and...

  • Hunt For the Wilderpeople

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    Writer and director Taika Waititi first came in contact with the Hunt for the Wilderpeople project in 2005, when executive producer Charlie McClellan employed the then “writer for hire” Waititi to adapt the Barry Crump classic Wild Pork and...

  • Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara

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  • Statement of Performance Expectations 2024-25

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    Issue date: 2 Jul 2024

    This is the Film Commission's Statement of Performance Expectations for 2024-25.

  • 1. Statement of Intent 2022-2026

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    Issue date: 1 Jul 2022

    The NZFC's Statement of Intent for the years 2022 - 2026

  • Toitū carbonreduce certification June 2023

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    Issue date: 21 Jun 2023

    This document certifies that the New Zealand Film Commission is a Toitū carbonreduce certified organisation.

  • Poppy

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  • Example Transaction Checklist

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    Issue date: 1 Aug 2019

    This form is an example of a transaction checklist that can be used for the financial closing of a film that the NZFC invests in. Please note that some items included here may not be relevant to your film, and that additional items may be required. The...