Author name: Mark It

As the countdown continues for the world premiere of the Australian-produced, edgy, mystery-drama Anno 2020 – at a red-carpet event in Sydney on April 7 – attention turns to the film’s Tauranga-born author-director James Morcan. The Sydney-based 45-year-old made his…

When Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron was named best animated feature at the Oscars last month, it struck a blow for foreign-language cinema around the world at a time when box office and the number of releases is…

The Australian Film Institute (AFI), which runs the annual AACTA Awards, has failed to lodge its 2022-23 financial accounts with the regulator on time. The deadline to lodge its 2022-23 annual financial report and information statement with the Australian Charities…

Boy is Taika Waititi‘s second feature film. It returns to the subject matter of his Oscar-nominated short, “Two Cars, One Night,” which took a kids-eye perspective to life in a Maori community, but takes a more whimsical, comedic approach. The…

Twenty years ago today, or to be more culturally appropriate to this story, rua tekau years ago today, Whakaata Māori began broadcasting in Aotearoa.It had been a decade-long battle to get the station off the ground and on the air,…

This story uses the Taranaki mita when spelling maunga, which local hapū and iwi spell as mounga. Picture this: you’re doing some high-altitude camping on Taranaki’s Pouakai ranges, waking up just in time to crawl out of your cosy sleeping…

There’s a certain charm that so many films from New Zealand have, and the award-winning We Were Dangerous from SXSW is no different. The film is a period dramedy following a trio of friends, young women sent to an institution for delinquent…