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We support filmmakers to participate in international workshops, labs and training opportunities in order to progress their careers and forge useful working relationships. We have a number of partnerships with organisations offering such...

Fans will have the chance to buy exclusive tickets to join New Zealand’s biggest band at the Auckland and Dunedin premieres, before its nationwide release. To celebrate the release of the feature film Till the Lights Go Out, SIX60 are giving fans the...

387 Distribution is excited to release the first trailer for local feature film Dawn Raid ahead of its nationwide release on January 21, 2021. Directed by Oscar Kightley and from the producers of McLaren and The Dead Lands, Dawn Raid is the...

A discussion document relating to the Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund which is part of the Screen Sector Recovery Package announced on 1 July 2020.

Please join the New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand On Air and Te Māngai Pāho for a live webinar on Wednesday 28 October at 5pm for an update on the Premium Production for International Audience Fund (PKA the $50M premium drama fund). The Fund is...

The Kōpere Hou - Fresh Shorts Stage One applicants who will be invited to apply for Whiringa Tuarua - Stage Two will be announced the week beginning 16 November 2020.

Director’s Statement: Sima Urale “On reading Coffee & Allah, I was immediately attracted to the main character Abeba, a Muslim Ethiopian woman, and her journey in a strange new land. Beingan immigrant myself, I could easily relate to the...

Gerry is young and restless and unemployed. He lives in an isolated small town in the far north of New Zealand, so when the car gives him the chance to head to a big city, he moves fast and starts looking for excitement. John is older and slightly...

The following Terms and Conditions form the basis upon which you agree to use the NZ Film VOD Service and purchase NZ Film Products. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully.  By using the NZ Film VOD Service you indicate that you accept...

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. In Chinese 

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. In both English and Chinese.

Partnering for Success will tell you more about China-New Zealand screen collaboration. This version is in English only.

Here are the criteria for productions applying for the New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG) - International 1 July 2017. 

Pete's Dragon Uplift Statement.

This is the New Zealand Film Commission's Statement of Intent for the years 2013-2016

The document outlining Te Rautaki Māori in Te Reo

The document outlining Te Rautaki Māori in English

This is the New Zealand Film Commission's Annual Report for 2017/18

A guide to working with the Māori screen industry.

A guide to working with Māori in the screen industry.

Ngā Aho Whakaari's document on Working with Māori in Screen Production

Ngā Mihi Ka rere tonu ngā mihi a Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga ki ngā rangatira me ngā kaumātua o te ao whakaata, nā rātou i whakatū ngā pou taketake o tō mātou ahumahi. Ko mātou kei te whai i ō rātou tapuwae, ā, hei tūtohu tō rātou whakaaro nui me ā rātou...

If you have finished your film and need some help to get it across the finish line, you can apply for post production funding. Depending on the scale of the work needed to finish your film, there are several options. If you need more than $60,000,...

A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military’s newest agency – Space Force – ready for lift-off. Starring Steve Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz.   PDV supplier Weta Digital Format TV Series...

Jake Mahaffy’s Reunion will have its world premiere in the newly formed Nightstream Film Festival, an online collaboration between major US genre festivals Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights Festivals. ...

We want New Zealand films to be seen both here and overseas. We expect all the films that we fund to be seen in New Zealand cinemas but we understand that in a competitive market your film might need help to reach its audience. We...

March 2021 Board Meeting 

May 2021 Board Meeting

September 2021 Board Meeting

December 2021 Board Meeting

The decisions for the Strategic Training Fund - Stage Two will be announced.

Funding decisions for the Strategic Training Fund - Stage One will be announced.

The recipient(s) of He Ara will be notified the week beginning 30 November 2020.

Siblings in a colonial New Zealand household discover one snowy night that they are orphans. Henry, the impressionable middle child is haunted by the ghost of their abusive father. He resists his cross-dressing older brother's attempt to mother the...

A social commentary watching the lives of five 15 & 16 year olds as each “slice of their life” is revealed on the hour from 12 midnight until 5am. Sometimes real life needs no verbal explanation. Sometimes life gets in the way of...

A couple searches the West Coast bush for a wasps’ nest. He is a tracker of signals, but can’t seem to read what she wants. She cuts back a fallen tree to keep the fertile natural world at bay but when she comes across a dying mouse on her...