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Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople continues to break box office records, taking the number two slot in the list of highest grossing local films at the New Zealand box office.  At the close of business on Wednesday 27 April, ...

25 April will screen in competition at the highly regarded Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June. It will join eight other films in the competition line-up, only one of which is also a documentary. Directed by Leanne Pooley and produced...

NZIFF continue to appoint prominent NZ filmmakers to select the latest and best in NZ short films with Lee Tamahori confirmed as Guest Selector for the 2016 New Zealand’s Best competition. Five to six selected New Zealand shorts will premiere in...

An acclaimed documentary about the design and construction of a unique cultural building for the Tūhoe iwi will be be screened in Venice this month at the beginning of the city’s famous Architecture Biennale.   Ever the Land tells...

Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople has cemented its place in the record books overtaking the 2010 Kiwi classic Boy (which Waititi also directed) to become the largest grossing local film at the New Zealand Box office. Already...

The Directors & Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) is delighted to announce its year-long Women Filmmaker Incubator with financial assistance from the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC). The Incubator, launching in the second half of 2016, will...

Six short films have been selected by Lee Tamahori (Mahana, Once Were Warriors) as finalists for the New Zealand International Film Festival’s annual New Zealand’s Best Short Film Competition. The New Zealand’s Best finalists will compete for a total of...

NZIFF is thrilled to present the World Premiere of Alison Maclean’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s debut novel The Rehearsal. The film stars James Rolleston in the role of Stanley, a naive newcomer drawn to the city by his passion to...

The theatrical trailer of The Rehearsal, Alison Maclean’s vibrant screen adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s debut novel has been released online. The Rehearsal Trailer The Rehearsal will have its world premiere at the Civic Theatre on 23...

Former Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has been appointed chair of the New Zealand Film Commission, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry has announced. “Mayor of the capital from 2001-2010 and now chair of both the Environmental...

Filmmakers Adam Luxton and Summer Agnew worked across oceans and time zones to complete their second collaboration, On an Unknown Beach, for this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF). The film documents a scientist, a musician and...

Transmission Films is proud to launch the official Chasing Great film trailer. The trailer is available now here. This emotive and explosive trailer gives New Zealanders their very first look into this highly anticipated film. Chasing Great takes...

The Directors & Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) is delighted to announce the ten emerging women directors who will participate in its inaugural Women Filmmakers Incubator. They are: Catherine Bisley Nathalie Boltt Abigail Greenwood Kirsty...

On your marks, get set, GO!  PORK PIE announces cinema release date. STUDIOCANAL and FOUR KNIGHTS FILM are all geared up to distribute their modern reimagining of the kiwi classic Goodbye Pork Pie to New Zealand Cinemas nationwide. PORK PIE will...

The Hollywood premiere of Disney’s Pete’s Dragon on 8 August has provided another spectacular opportunity to showcase New Zealand as the ultimate film destination. The reimagining of the Disney classic was filmed entirely in New Zealand, with...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Gaylene Preston Directors’ Award. Armagan Ballantyne, Alyx Duncan and Gillian Ashurst will each receive $25,000 to further their commitment to feature filmmaking....

Movie reaches $1 million at NZ Box Office.  Soundtrack reaches No 4 on Music Charts The film about the origins of the song now referred to as New Zealand’s unofficial National Anthem, Poi E: The Story of Our Song, crossed the $1 million mark in...

Chasing Great has soared to the top of the New Zealand box office overnight, opening at number one spot ahead of Bad Moms. The opening day figure was $89,186 off 97 screens, a record breaking opening day for a NZ documentary. The cumulative gross box...

New Zealand box office figures show New Zealanders are going to local films in record numbers. In the last 12 months, New Zealand films have boosted the box office at local cinemas, breaking records and reaching larger numbers of people in more cinema...

New Zealand Film Commission staff are saddened by news of Brent Chambers’ death from a heart attack over the weekend. Brent was the founder and creative director of Flux Animation, one of the major animation and production companies in...

Christchurch feature documentary The Art of Recovery has taken top awards at two separate films festivals the US and Europe this past weekend. The film, directed by Peter Young, opened the New Urbanism Film Festival in Los Angeles where it won 'Best...

It is with much sadness that the NZFC acknowledges the death of writer and director Michael Firth on 9 October. Firth started his filmmaking career as a teenager, experimenting with an 8mm camera to make a documentary about a tribe of Brazilian Indians...

At the Ngā Aho Whakaari Hui on 7 and 8 October, NZFC CEO Dave Gibson announced the details of a third gender scholarship, following the awards supported by Jane Campion in 2015, and Gaylene Preston earlier this year. The 2017 scholarship is to support...

Congratulations to Gaylene Preston on being named one of New Zealand's Women of Influence. Presented by Fairfax Media and Westpac, the New Zealand Women of Influence programme recognises and celebrates women from all walks of life who make a difference...

Get ready for a rollicking, hilarious, heartwarming length-of-the-country-road-trip…. Pork Pie is coming! Kiwis get their first peek at the accidental outlaws better known as the Blondini Gang today, with the launch of the official trailer for the film...

The Vista Foundation in partnership with the The New Zealand Film Commission are proud to announce the feature film Pecking Order as the winner of the annual Vista Film Marketing competition. The award contributes $75,000 to the marketing budget of a NZ...

Impassioned! Unleashed! Hellbent! Desperate Remedies Re-Premieres on November 28 Book at Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.co.nz Aucklanders will have a one-off opportunity to see Desperate Remedies, the New Zealand film from 1992 that remains...

Richie McCaw is still setting records long after leaving the field, as his documentary Chasing Great today becomes the highest grossing New Zealand documentary of all time at the local box office.   The cumulative gross box office in New Zealand...

With much sadness, the NZFC and the New Zealand screen industry farewells producer, distributor, exhibitor and former NZFC Chair, Barrie Everard.   Barrie’s film industry career began in Australia in the 1960s. Upon moving to New Zealand, he...

They’re baaaaaaaaack. After a self-enforced hiatus The Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (aka The Moas) are back from the edge of extinction once again and ready to showcase the brilliant cinema that kiwis have created since their last awards....

New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) CEO, Dave Gibson, revealed today the details of the development fund for Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and gaming announced at the Big Screen Symposium in Auckland.  Called the Interactive...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) Annual Report 2015/16, tabled in parliament on Friday, emphasises what a great year it was for New Zealand films. Releasing the report, NZFC Chair Kerry Prendergast said, “It’s thrilling that this, my first annual...

The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ (DEGNZ) is thrilled to announce Peter O’Donaghue as the recipient of our 2017 International Editor Mentorship with Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American documentary editor Doug Blush. “I’m thrilled at...

Two new members have been appointed to the New Zealand Film Commission Board, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry has announced. Pania Tyson-Nathan and Tom Greally will replace outgoing Board members Cameron Harland and Charles Finny. “It’...

The Blondini Gang hit the road as they "Take Their Bloody Cars to Invercargill" A road trip of epic proportions will take place this summer as the cast of Pork Pie hit the road in their Blondini Mini, leading a convoy of other Minis all the...

Audiences will get their first look at the hilarious new comedy from thedownlowconcept (7 Days, Hounds) today with the release of the trailer for their debut feature film Gary of the Pacific. Staring Josh Thomson, Megan Stevenson, Dave Fane, Matt...