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The New Zealand Film Commission is pleased to offer a scholarship opportunity to attend the 27th Annual SPADA Conference, which will provide four tickets for emerging talent in the screen sector. These delegates will attend the 2019 SPADA conference...

Please be advised that the NZSPG Criteria for International Productions dated 1 July 2017 has been updated. This is a minor technical update which will take effect on 1 December 2019 and will apply to productions commencing Principal Photography, or PDV...

The first look at the brand-new action-comedy film The Legend of Baron To’a featuring a stellar line-up of Aotearoa’s best local talent has been released today ahead of its theatrical release in early 2020. The...

The winners for New Zealand’s premier, international short film festival, Show Me Shorts, have been unveiled. The announcements took place at the festival’s gala Opening Night and Awards Ceremony in Auckland on Saturday 5 October. Kiwi filmmakers Sarah...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) today released new statistics on the gender of directors, writers and producers attached to short and feature films receiving funding over the last five years. In 2017 the NZFC set the target of funding 50% women...

Leading professional training and project development organisation European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) will run its acclaimed Ties That Bind Asia/Europe Co-Production Workshop in Singapore in early December 2019.  In addition, EAVE and the...

The New Zealand Film Commission and partners from the sector, including Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) have worked together to bring the Amazon Studios series based on The Lord of the Rings to New Zealand. New Zealand being...

Academy Award® winner Geena Davis has joined the ground breaking The Power of Inclusion summit.        Davis will speak alongside over 35 international and local history makers from the entertainment industry and beyond...

New Zealand funding agencies, the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) and NZ On Air have announced further development funding of $80,000 each to four scripted series projects. In June this year, the two agencies partnered on Raupapa Whakaari Drama to...

The Power of Inclusion summit is pleased to announce the Motion Picture Association Scholarship Programme, which will provide 150 tickets for people working or studying in the screen sector who are low or unwaged or belong to a community underrepresented...

The NZFC has 15 scholarships available to attend The Power of Inclusion Summit. This includes the cost of the ticket and a contribution towards travel and accommodation costs for those outside of Auckland. Five are available for Pacific Island...

Incredible actress and activist, Yara Shahidi has been added to The Power of Inclusion summit along with programme details. She joins over 35 international and local history makers from the entertainment industry and beyond, at this pivotal event in...

The New Zealand Film Commission in conjunction with the Asia New Zealand Foundation invites experienced screen professionals to apply for a professional development opportunity with CJ Entertainment and the CJ Cultural Foundation in South Korea. This...

The NZFC's Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Screen Industry Survey is live from 9 August and closes 30 August. This survey is part of wider research and discussion around gender, diversity and inclusion in the screen industry.  Click here to...

Featuring over 35 speakers from around the world, in a two-day programme that includes case studies, panels, conversations and keynotes. The Power of Inclusion summit has added more multi-hyphenate, courageous and inspiring speakers to its line-up, who...

China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea, but when sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector. Screen...

Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng: Hundred Flowers Winner Mr. Six, Guilty of Mind) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing...

Merata Mita’s seminal film, Mauri, has been selected to screen In Competition in the Venice Classics section of the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Venice will be the World Premiere of the newly re-mastered film.  Heperi Mita, Merata’s son and...

On the centenary of the end of First World War, Academy Award-winner Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) presents an extraordinary new work showing the Great War as you have never seen it. This unique film brings into high definition the human...

Koen, still learning to truly harness his powers as the Cleverman, is the only one who can stop the bloodshed between human and Hairy. Ranged against him is the full force of government, spearheaded by his brother Waruu, who is now empowered by Hairy...

I Am Mother is a sci fi thriller about a teenage girl (Clara Rugaard), who is the first of a new generation of humans to be raised by Mother (Rose Byrne), a robot designed to repopulate the earth fafter the extinction of humankind. But the pair's unique...

An all-star Pasifika and Māori cast whose international credits stretch across Alien: Covenant, Marco Polo, Star Wars, The Matrix Reloaded, Mortal Engines and Battleship have assembled in Tāmaki Makaurau for a brand-new action...

Malo lava to Samoan screenwriter Sima Urale who is the recipient of the New Zealand Film Commission’s (NZFC’s) 2019 Gender Scholarship.  She will receive a grant of $50,000 to help progress her filmmaking career. Application assessors said of Urale...

Straight Forward is an eight-part family crime drama: an unexpected love story, as well as a tale of revenge, danger and redemption. It is a sexy, dangerous ride that jumps across the entire planet coming to a bloody end at the bottom of the world in one...

A motley trio of fallen gods with magical superpowers and incredible martial arts skills escort a young girl disguised as a monk on a perilous quest to bring an end to demonic rule and restore balance to the world. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen...

This, the second series of 800 Words, continues the saga of George Turner, a man looking to make a new home for himself and his family, in the strangely beautiful town that is Weld, New Zealand. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen Production Grant (...

We pick up right after we left Lola reeling from the news that the man who has turned their lives upside down now has her son hostage. All he wants in exchange for his release is the key tag that was attached to their bag of cash. But he’s holding David...

6 Days is a taut thriller telling the incredible true story of six days of terror after six heavily-armed gunmen invaded the Iranian Embassy in Londons Princes Gate on April 30, 1980, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians and...

The third series of 800 Words continues the saga of George Turner, a man looking to make a new home for himself and his family, in the strangely beautiful town that is Weld, New Zealand. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG) New...

Cleverman tells the story of two indigenous half-brothers who join forces to battle an ancient mythological monster. In this not-too-distant dystopian future, an ancient species known as Hairypeople fight for survival on the fringes of society. A New...

Saban's Power Rangers Ninja Steel starts deep in space, where Galvanax is the reigning champion of the most popular intergalactic game show in the universe, and monsters battle to prove who is the mightiest warrior. ... The only thing standing in his way...

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool meets Russell, an angry teenage mutant who lives at an orphanage. When Russell becomes the target of Cable - a genetically enhanced soldier from the future - Deadpool realizes that he'll need some help saving the boy...

From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (Avatar) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), comes Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment, based upon the Manga graphic novel series by Yukito Kishiro. When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no...

Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity, and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this...

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-...

Cliffs of Freedom is the story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Twenty-year-old Anna Christina is...