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The reappearance of Charlie Davies, an old friend and recently returned serviceman, marks a turning point. They marry and he devotes himself to her recovery. Reunited with Penny they become a family and set out to share in the new life promised after the...

The Feature Film Finishing Grant helps independent filmmakers to finish their fims so they are ready to be seen by cinema audiences. Read these helpful guidelines before applying for a Feature Film Finishing Grant. 

The Feature Film Finishing Fund helps independent filmmakers over the final hurdle of post production and into cinemas. What we fund The final stages of post production for feature-length films that require a theatrical digital finish (full HD or...

The New Zealand Film Commission provides grants, loans, and equity investment to New Zealand filmmakers and businesses to assist in the development and production of feature films and short films. Our aim is to support the New Zealand film...

Download the FAQs for the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate for New Zealand Productions here:

Use this template to declare non-arm's length expenditure in New Zealand Screen Production Rebate applications.

This document provides an example of the General Ledger requirement for New Zealand Screen Production Rebate applications.

Use this template to log cast & crew travel for your NZSPR Final (or Interim) application.

Promotional materials are required with all Final applications for the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate.

Download the current NZSPG-International Criteria here (Updated 2019).

All resources relating to the NZSPR and Co-Productions can be found here including guidelines, templates, FAQs and funding information.

Image above: NZFC Kaiwhakawhanake Hinonga | Māori Development Executive, Kathryn Graham, and producers, Desray Armstrong, Alix Whittaker, Morgan Leigh Stewart and Rachel Fawcett. What is MIFF 37ºSouth? MIFF 37ºSouth is a film market, attached to...

Use this Expenditure Statement Template for the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate for International Productions.

Recent Production Funding Decisions  Feature Film Production Investment   At the August 2023 Board Meeting, the NZFC Board approved conditional offers of funding to one new feature film and additional equity to one feature film. ...

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...

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...

From the director of Crush. Director's Statement "The story came to me in much the same way as events unfold for the woman in the film.  I could see this hair sticking out of the plughole and on closer inspection, the story began to...

Festival News:  Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF2023)  Image: Monro (Guy Pearce) The Convert 2023. Photo Kirsty Griffin The Convert, directed by Lee Tamahori, co-written by Shane Danielsen and Tamahori, produced by...

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is looking to recruit an Industry Executive, Kaiwhakahononga Hāpori – Māori and Sustainability - on a fixed term and/or contract basis for six months from late October 2023, to assist...

Image above: Guy Pearce in The Convert  Robin Scholes is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and respected screen producers. Her credits range from feature films: Once Were Warriors, Mahana, Mr Pip to television content: Magic...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) will keep this page updated with our response to COVID-19. Please click on the headline to read the full information on each release. NZFC Covid-19 Policy Lifted In August, the New Zealand Government announced...

This Transparency Statement (Statement) explains how the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC, our or we) manages information gathered about members of the public or other entities (directly or indirectly) in accordance with the Information Gathering...

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

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

Bala Murali Shingade graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA in screen production and since then has freelanced as a writer, director and actor both on stage and for screen. We connected with Bala to ask him about his...

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...

Kismet, in association with Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC), Firefly Films, Caravan Carpark Films and Kingston Productions are proud to release the trailer for the highly anticipated local feature film Uproar -...