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The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is pleased to release its Statement of Intent (SOI) outlining the organisation’s strategic objectives for the period 2017-2021 and its Statement of Performance Expectations (SPE) which reflects the organisation’s...

Waru has been selected to open the 2017 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest presenter of indigenous screen content. Waru, produced by Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton, is an anthology feature film made up of eight 10-...

The NZFC has scholarships available to attend the Big Screen Symposium in Auckland on 30 September and 1 October. Each scholarship will include a ticket to the two-day event and if you live outside the Auckland region, a travel grant of up to $250 is...

Kia hiwa rā! Kia hiwa rā! Kia tū, kia oho, kia mataara ki a tātou te hunga waihanga kiriata Māori. Nau mai, piki mai ki tā tātou hui kōkiri i ngā kaupapa here Māori a Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga. Last month Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga the New Zealand Film...

Tusi Tamasese’s One Thousand Ropes is New Zealand’s submission for the best foreign language category of the 90th Academy Awards. Each year the Academy invites countries to select and submit their best foreign language film for consideration. ...

At last weekend’s Big Screen Symposium held in Auckland, Dave Gibson gave his final address to the industry as NZFC CEO. In his speech, he announced the organisation’s gender policy would add new objectives to help progress the careers of...

Change and Challenge. New Zealand Film Commission CEO, Dave Gibson, talks about recent changes in the film business and suggests some challenges for the future. The following is a transcript of Dave Gibson's speech given on Saturday, 30 September 2017...

Kerry Prendergast, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) Chair, is pleased to announce Annabelle Sheehan as the next Chief Executive of the NZFC. Sheehan replaces Dave Gibson, who will depart the role in early January 2018. Making the announcement, Ms...

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy is one of the largest and most sophisticated movie undertakings in the world. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle...

This is a project which demanded location - We knew early in the process we wanted to look in New Zealand. There is a richness of culture, a richness of architecture and a richness of landscape. We are very lucky. Jeffery Clifford - Producer Cape...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday between the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) and the Regional Film Offices of New Zealand (RFONZ), the organisation representing regional film office members. The MOU outlines key commitments...

The New Zealand Production Fund Trust is pleased to announce that the Trust has been repurposed to become Te Puna Ataata, the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust. Filmmakers can appoint the charitable trust to act as guardian of their films, ensuring they...

The Interactive Development Fund, a Film Commission grant designed to facilitate the development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and gaming projects, is now open. The deadline for applications is 16 March 2018. The funding will be made...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Moll in the new role of Investment Executive. The formerly UK-based Moll is a BAFTA award winning producer and highly regarded senior film executive with over three...

We are committed to ensuring the voices and perspectives of women are seen and heard through film. We have recently updated the information we collect and publish relating to women in the industry and one of the key highlights is that 62% of people...

Daffodils, a soon-to-be produced New Zealand musical feature film won the annual Vista Film Marketing competition. The prize, which was awarded at the final session of the Vista marketing programme, contributes $75,000 to the film’s marketing budget...

The New Zealand Film Commission’s Annual Report 2016/17 was tabled in Parliament on Thursday. Releasing the report, Film Commission Chair Kerry Prendergast said, “We are farewelling Dave Gibson at the end of the calendar year, and this annual report...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) today released key economic highlights which reinforce the screen industry’s value to the New Zealand economy. Economic modeling undertaken by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), based on the...

Following a general election or change of Minister, as a Crown Angency, we provide Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIMs) to introduce the work of the New Zealand Film Commission and summarise key areas of interest in relation to the industry and policy...

Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami’s comical feature film The Breaker Upperers has been announced today to receive its world premiere at the prestigious SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. A hilarious comedy about two best friends who run a business...

The New Zealand musical feature film based on the much-loved and critically acclaimed stage play Daffodils begins shooting in this week.  Daffodils is a bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of the most iconic New Zealand songs...

Yellow is Forbidden, directed by Pietra Brettkelly is to be the first New Zealand film to screen In Competition at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.  The film’s world premiere will also feature in the festival’s prestigious Opening Weekend. Yellow...

New Zealand’s marine locations are featured prominently in the epic, action-packed 3D adventure The Meg, the first major motion picture to be filmed on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, as well as at the city’s new Kumeu Film Studios.  Audiences got a first...

The New Zealand extras and New Zealand in general were great. The level of interest and enthusiasm were consistently high, in part I think due to the shared ANZAC legacy between Australia and New Zealand but also just down to the people involved....

At the National Library of New Zealand tonight, Annabelle Sheehan, CEO of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission announced a new investment fund to celebrate 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote, promoting New Zealand’s...

Waru was awarded the Grand Jury Award for an Outstanding International Narrative Feature at the 34th Asia Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles on 10 May. On awarding the film, festival organisers said, "Waru is an intelligent and honest...

A research paper released today by the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) outlines the way in which young people engage with film and cinemas and offers suggestions for ways exhibitors could better meet the needs of this young audience. Born between the...

Eight feature-length New Zealand films have been announced to screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) in 2018. Five documentaries will have their world premieres in the programme. New Zealand stories are represented on screen with...

The latest trailer for Mortal Engines has revealed another world created in New Zealand.  Mortal Engines is set thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of...

Six films have been offered funding in the January Fresh Shorts round, two at the $10,000 level,  three at the $30,000 level and one at $15,000. At the $10,000 level: The Sauna Writer/director: Lucy Knox, Producer: Evie Mackay At an idyllic spa...

We are excited to announce the successful applicants for this year’s Interactive Development Fund. The programme supports concept development of original, narrative-focused, interactive and games content delivered on any platform (including mobile,...

The Meg is a large-scale science fiction action thriller starring English actor Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award-winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformer: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message), and also...

Mortal Engines is set thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved.  Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction...

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. Format Feature Film  Production Company Paramount Pictures Producers Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Dana Goldberg, J...

The 125 Fund opened to applicants today. The fund, which will make an investment of up to $1.25 million into up to two dramatic feature films, led by women, is open to dramatic features in any genre (not documentaries). The deadline for...

From visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, an epic adventure based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and,...