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Kelsey's magazine approves her article about a sceptic's take on horoscopes and love. She's teamed up with astrology guru, Carter, to write about a local meteor shower festival, and through fate they discover that love can be written in the stars....

Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas and skies. Format  Mini series Production companies Apple TV+, BBC Studios Series Producer Tim Walker Directors Andrew R. Jones, Adam...

An aged woman lives with her fully grown and wholly dependant son. This Vincent Ward film is a rare view of an enclosed world where an 82-year-old woman, alone, is 'The Burdened One'. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, this emerges as...

Our staff come from a variety of backgrounds, but are all passionate about getting New Zealand films watched by even more New Zealanders, and onto the world stage. You can read more about our team on the About Us page. We are an Equal...

The CE's expenses 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022

It struck me, that the conditions in which I was given a true opportunity to be a filmmaker are not available today and have never been in Aotearoa. In 1981 I was lucky enough to attend film school in Australia where everyone was not...

The trailer for this year’s opening night film of the Sydney Film Festival, We Are Still Here, released today ahead of its New Zealand premiere at the Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand International Film Festival. The film will also screen in the state of...

Now in it’s fifth week of release, Whina has taken over one million dollars at the New Zealand box office and remains in the top ten chart of films currently in theatrical release. Written by Paula Whetu Jones, James Napier Robertson and James Lucas,...

Four wāhine Māori drama producers and one Takatāpui have been announced as this year’s New Zealand Film Commission 2022 Gender Scholarship recipients. Under the patronage of Producers Ainsley Gardiner and Desray Armstrong, five...

The conspiracy plot is mostly an excuse for chases, capers and crashes galore, all imbued with plenty of pell-mell shenanigans (this time heading north in a red Falcon) by Goodbye Pork Pie director Geoff Murphy. The movie marked Temuera...

White Lies is a story about the nature of identity:  those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman.  She is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people – she believes in life....

20 New Zealand cast 350+ New Zealand crew 800+ Extras Shot June – August 2021 31 Shoot days: 9 days South Island, 22 days Auckland...

We want to increase the number of people seeing New Zealand films, in cinemas and on other screens, both here and overseas. Audience research Ongoing audience research helps ascertain who is watching New Zealand films and where and how they watch them...

Aotearoa New Zealand has a globally competitive and thriving screen sector.  We are renowned for our creativity and innovation, our diverse and accessible landscapes, and our highly skilled and experienced crew. We produce world class productions...

A report on the economic impact of the screen sector commissioned by the NZFC from Olsberg SPI, one of the leading international consultancies specialising in the global screen sector.    

Riven is the dark fantasy tale of a warrior's struggle to accept loss. Anguished by the death of his wife, he journeys into the darkness of the forest to seek redemption in bringing her back from the dead. Lost in the mist of his grief, he must face...

Fiji: In a modest dwelling in Fiji a 7 year-old girl with boundless energy tries to understand why she has to say goodbye to her home country and extended family as her mother prepares her to leave Fiji. Tonga: Vai, now 13, dreams of going to NZ to sing...

A family’s idyllic outing descends into terror when high school teacher Alan ‘Hoaggie’ Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon go exploring an isolated coastline. But an unexpected meeting with a pair of murderous...

New Zealand, South Island, 1861. Bridget O’Casey, a hardened 35-year old grog seller, has just fought for her life. Injured and alone, Bridget takes a life-changing gold nugget, steals a horse and runs. Not far behind her, a pack of men with dogs...

Blake travels from the city to rural New Zealand to check on her father after a health scare. They haven’t spoken in some time and Blake is battling a serious diagnosis of her own. With the pleasantries over and health talk...

Separation City is a comedy-drama about the complications that ensue as two marriages collapse. Men's groups and midlife crises in contemporary Wellington make up the world in which the multi-national cast explores, in screenwriter Tom Scott's...

There are a number of industry organisations that support the careers of filmmakers. We work with these organisations to provide training, career development and networking opportunities for filmmakers.These industry organisations include:...

Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly is set to star with Ben Whishaw in Bad Behaviour, Australian/New Zealand actress and filmmaker Alice Englert’s directorial debut. The film is a dark comedy about Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress who...

This is the Film Commission's Statement of Performance Expectations for the year ending June 30 2023.

100+ New Zealand cast and crew 200+ locals hired as background talent 7 weeks filming in Hokianga and Waitangi, Northland    New Zealand Open set so community members...

Aleki, a master car thief who dreams of navigating by the stars, crosses paths with rebellious teenage girl Spit and faces his future. Rugby league star Tama saves the life of desperate Gunge - an act of heroism that brings tragedy to his own family....

Givenchy, Lagerfeld, Chanel, Dior Gaultier…. It is perhaps the most exclusive club in the world. 21.  Mostly men.  European. Now there may be another name added to that list. Guo Pei grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution,...

Dawn Raid is the story of two Manukau Polytechnic students, Andy Murane and Tanielu Leaosavai'i (aka Brotha D) who turned a bootleg t-shirt business and Hip-Hop night at a local bar in Otara into the influential Dawn Raid Entertainment empire....

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission sadly acknowledges the passing of director Luit Bieringa (10 September 1942 - 21 June 2022). Originally from The Netherlands, Luitjen Hendrik Bieringa spent most of his life in Aotearoa New Zealand and...

From writer and director Tearepa Kahi, Muru will release in nationwide cinemas on 1 September. On the eve of Matariki, the trailer for new action-drama film Muru has today been unveiled ahead of its nationwide general release on 1 September, 2022...

When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-...

A Woman of Good Character is based on the pioneer novel by English author Elizabeth Gowans. The film is director David Blyth's second feature, following his debut Angel Mine.  The film was adapted to tele-movie length in 1983, with...

Fast Facts 100+ New Zealand crew 33 New Zealand cast 21 shoot days in Makarora and Cardrona 8 shoot days in Auckland Nude Tuesday stars Jackie van Beek (What We Do In...

Jane Campion, Academy Award®-winning Best Director for her latest film The Power of the Dog, has announced a new project, A Wave in the Ocean, a popup intensive course for New Zealand’s emerging film directing talent. The independent...