Festivals and Awards Programme

 This programme provides financial assistance to recognised industry individuals or organisations towards the cost of either:

  • Festivals which provide the public with a diverse selection of feature film programming to encourage informed debate and which give opportunities to new talent.; or  
  • Awards events which recognise excellence and reward achievement in all aspects of feature film production.

The following organisations have been supported by this programme:
New Zealand International Film Festivals
Wellington Fringe Film Festival
New Zealand Federation of Film Societies
Wairoa Maori Film Festival
Documentary NZ Film Festival
New Zealand Screen Awards
48 Hour Film Festival
Show Me Shorts
The guidelines for this programme are available for download below.

The deadline for applications is 5 January 2010.