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From writer, director, executive producer, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, Don Jon), Mr. Corman follows the days and nights of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. Things haven’t been going his way...

The decisions for the November round of Early Development, Documentary Development, Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support  and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Funding will be made by 5pm.

The decisions for the June round of Early Development, Documentary Development, Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support  and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Funding will be made by 5pm.

The decisions for the August round of Early Development, Documentary Development, Hāpaitia I te Kaupapa Kiriata: Māori Feature Film Support  and Tuhinga Reo Māori: Te Reo Māori Development Funding will be made by 5pm.

Brittany is a thirteen-year old girl with autism, a keen football fan and a supporter of Melbourne’s Western Bulldogs. When she spies a real bulldog sitting outside her window, she slips out of the house. She unwittingly embarks on a strange...

The CE's expenses 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021

Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has...

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) today confirmed that no Government money has been given or promised to the They Are Us project, and the NZFC has had no role in the development of the concept or script. The NZFC...

Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who respects his uncle and doesn’t mind the physical work. However he finds the spiritual side of...

Judgment Tavern is a dark coming-of-age film, about a father and daughter on a dangerous adventure in a world where magic is feared and hunted. Lucia is an innocent child who is forced to take care of her father after his head mysteriously and magically...

Left alone with just her spiritual guides, a young girl upholds the prestige and sovreignty of the tribe in order to protect the land for generations to come. Due to her brave deeds, she is immortalised forever.

Starring, produced and written by New Zealand’s gender diverse community, Rūrangi follows transgender activist Caz Davis as he heads home to the isolated, conservative dairy town of Rūrangi - where no-one’s heard or seen from Caz since before...

FRANKIE JEAN is 8 years old and she is obsessed with rugby. She is woken early one morning by her dad to watch the All Blacks play South Africa in the final of the Rugby Championship. When they unexpectedly lose, Frankie is distraught. Afraid the kids at...

Ten screen storytellers have been matched with experienced New Zealand mentors in the 2021 round of Hunga Taunaki ā Rorohiko, the New Zealand Film Commission’s online mentorship programme.  Hunga Taunaki ā Rorohiko refers to working with others and...

The deadline for applying for the Jane Campion & See-Saw Masterclasses is 1pm.

Apron Strings, the debut feature from Sima Urale, is a parallel story of two families and two cultures set in suburban Otahuhu, South Auckland. At the heart of the story are three women whose lives and livelihoods revolve around food. Hard working...

Supported by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, the Harriet Friedlander Residency sent Florian to New York for as long as $80,000 would last him. The film, shot over three months in New York City, plays with the idea of pick-a-path stories from the...

Assistant Principal Mr Peach is the back stop for kids with truancy and behavioural problems, when none of the other teachers can deal with them. In an environment where the morale of both the students and teachers is at an all time low, Mr Peach...

19 screen projects have been offered a total of $1.5 million of development funding in the first round of Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi – The Premium Development Fund. The successful projects represent a broad array of ideas with the potential to engage both...

The deadline for Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi – The Premium Development Fund is 1pm.

The submission checklist for Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi – The Premium Development Fund.

This is the Film Commission's Statement of Performance Expectations for the year ending June 30 2022.

Congratulations to the six recipients selected to receive Boost funding this year. Boost funding supports the growth of producers and screen businesses who have a strategic vision in a fast-changing environment and a plan to deliver on this....

Funding Decisions for Screen Sector COVID-19 Capability Funding will be made the week beginning 16 August 2021.

The deadline for applying for Screen Sector COVID-19 Capability Funding is 1pm.

Based on Eleanor Catton's debut novel.

Eight female Māori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver. The vignettes are all subtly...

Learning that her daughter is serious about a Christian boyfriend, a mother fears it will threaten a spiritual gift both women have inherited. She takes her daughter back to her own tragic past to show how loneliness, hope and faith can turn love into...

Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life in space on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples the craft and  seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to...

Helmut Makes a Quilt is a dark comedy about a prison inmate who falls in love with a quilter through the prison pen-pal scheme. Told without dialogue, the story unfolds through a series of narrated letters. The prisoner is Helmut, a simple but gentle...

Fragments from a 1996 TV documentary uncover Theo Velasquez's abandoned research into and unexplained "hum" in the Rangipo Desert, and the mysterious circumstances surround its participants. Meanwhile, the desert terain begins to tell its...

Blue is a hard working waiter in an Asian restaurant trying his best to keep his job. He always keeps a smiley face on as he serves the food. Blue is different than other people. He used to have a life working as a fluffy TV mascot from a children’...

While hiding from his brother, Billy drops his grandfather’s precious war medal through a crack in their apartment floorboard into the bookshop below. At first, Billy’s mission is simply to get down to the bookshop to retrieve Koro’s...

No matter how hard Will tries, he can't make the grade in the local rugby team. When he discovers giant eggs soaking in the team's changing rooms, he realises there is a final sacrifice awaiting him