• Our Flag Means Death Season 2

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    Issue date: 1 Sep 2023

    Our Flag Means Death is based (very) loosely on the true adventures of 18th century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). After trading the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became captain of the...

  • NZSPR Template - Expenditure Statement for New Zealand Productions

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    Expenditure Statements are required with all New Zealand Screen Production Rebate applications.

  • NZSPG Criteria for New Zealand Productions (1 July 2017)

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    Download the New Zealand Screen Production Grant Criteria for New Zealand Productions dated 1 July 1 2017:

  • Far North

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    Issue date: 23 Aug 2023

    Far North is a 6 x one-hour scripted series telling the (mostly) true story of how the most comically inept gang to ever join forces got half a billion dollars’ worth of meth to New Zealand shores – and nearly to market. And they would have got away with...

  • NZFC Interactive Budget Template

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    Issue date: 18 Aug 2023

  • NZFC Response to 2023/2024 Letter of Expectations

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    Issue date: 7 Aug 2023

    NZFC Response to 2023/2024 Letter of Expectations.

  • Minister's Letter of Expectations 2023/24

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    Issue date: 7 Aug 2023

    Minister's Letter of Expectations 2023/24.

  • CE Expenses 2022/23

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    Issue date: 1 Aug 2023

    The CE's expenses June 2023.  

  • Acting CE Expenses 2022/23

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    Issue date: 1 Aug 2023

    The Acting CE's expenses 1 July 2022 - 30 June 2023

  • Strategic Training Fund Guidelines

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    Issue date: 25 Sep 2020

    The Guidelines for the Strategic Training Fund.

  • Board Governance Manual

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    Issue date: 1 May 2023

  • Anti-Piracy Guidelines for Producers

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    To help producers reduce the risk of piracy, we have developed guidelines that must be implemented in the post production of a feature film funded by the Film Commission.   We also strongly recommend these guidelines be implemented...

  • Best Practice Guide - A Guide for Screenwriters and Producers Working Together

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    Issue date: 7 Jul 2023

  • The Brown Book Māori in Screen - By Melissa Wikaire & Dr Ella Henry

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    Issue date: 7 Jul 2023

  • Working with Māori in Screen Production

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    Issue date: 7 Jul 2023

  • Urutahi Koataata Māori - Working with Māori in Film & Television

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    Issue date: 7 Jul 2023

  • Screen Capability - Business Innovation Programme Guidelines June 2023

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    Issue date: 26 Jun 2023

  • The Tank

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    Issue date: 23 May 2023

    Luciane Buchanan and Matt Whelan in The Tank Fast facts 100% shot in New Zealand 16 New Zealand cast 75% New Zealand crew Shot in Auckland “As a kiwi coming home...

  • The Tank

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    Issue date: 23 May 2023

    Oregon, 1978. Ben Adams and his wife Jules are in for a surprise when they inherit an abandoned coastal property that Ben’s recently deceased mother never told them about. Not knowing what to expect, the couple travel to the secluded home with their...

  • Choose Love

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    Issue date: 31 Aug 2023

    Cami has it all, the perfect job and boyfriend but she feels that something is missing, and that feeling begins to grow when she meets Rex and an old love returns to her life. Format  Film Production companies Netflix Producers Melanie Turner...

  • The Gone

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    Issue date: 17 May 2023

    When a young Irish couple vanishes from a small town in the North Island of New Zealand, Irish Detective Theo Richter teams up with Kiwi Detective Diana Huia to find them. Starring Richard Flood and Acushla-Tara Kupe.  Format  TV Series...

  • The Beatles: Get Back

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    Issue date: 25 Nov 2021

    The Beatles: Get Back is a Disney+ original docuseries from three-time Oscar-winning New Zealand Director Peter Jackson. Made entirely from never-before-seen footage restored at Park Road Post Production in Wellington. Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get...

  • Demographic Template for Industry Organisation Core Support Fund

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    Issue date: 9 May 2023

  • Evil Dead Rise

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    Issue date: 17 Apr 2023

    Fast facts 10 New Zealand cast 280 crew 6,500 litres of fake blood Shot in Auckland The iconic horror franchise returns with, Evil Dead Rise, written...

  • Evil Dead Rise

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    Issue date: 20 Apr 2023

    Evil Dead Rise is a terrifying new instalment in the iconic horror franchise created by Sam Raimi in the 1980s. A new group of young people uncover the Necronomicon, inadvertently unleashing the mother of all evil. Moving the action out of the woods and...

  • Sweet Tooth Season 2

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    Issue date: 27 Apr 2023

    As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for...

  • Pearl

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    Issue date: 13 Sep 2022

    Fast facts 215 New Zealand crew. 9 New Zealand cast. 124 New Zealand extras. X, Pearl and Mr. Corman  bundled under the NZSPG – International criteria. Written...

  • Punch

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    Issue date: 30 Jul 2022

    Seventeen-year old Jim is a small-town boxing hero who carries the hopes and dreams of his father Stan on his shoulders. His growing relationship with local boy, Whetu, forces him to confront the truth about his sexuality, and choose his own future....

  • Under the Vines Season 2

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    Issue date: 23 Feb 2023

    Under The Vines follows Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards as two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand. Format  TV Series Production companies Libertine Pictures, EQ Media Group, Hardy White Pictures...

  • M3GAN

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    Issue date: 19 Jan 2023

    (from left) M3GAN and Cady (Violet McGraw) in M3GAN, directed by Gerard Johnstone. Fast facts 15 New Zealand cast 245 New Zealand crew The lobby of the Toy Company was filmed on campus at the Auckland...

  • Annual Report 2021/22

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    Issue date: 8 Dec 2022

    This is the New Zealand Film Commission's Annual Report for 2021/22.

  • One of Us is Lying Season 2

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    Issue date: 20 Oct 2022

    Detention brings together five disparate high schoolers, but a killing — and secrets — keep them together as a cat-and-mouse murder mystery unfolds. Based on a Karen M. McManus novel, a series from “Elite” co-creator Darío Madrona. Format ...

  • M3GAN

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    Issue date: 25 Nov 2022

    She’s more than just a toy. She’s part of the family. From the most prolific minds in horror—James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Blumhouse, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The...

  • Avatar: The Way of Water

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    Issue date: 25 Nov 2022

    Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, "Avatar: The Way of Water" begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles...

  • Being Heard Report

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    Issue date: 20 Sep 2022

    A report on a 2019 survey on gender, diversity and inclusion in the Aotearoa New Zealand screen industry.

  • Feature Film Finishing Fund Submission Checklist

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    Issue date: 28 Mar 2022

    The submission checklist for the Feature Film Finishing Fund