Author name: Mark It

Sometime earlier this century the long-suffering travelling companion and I were frog-marching ourselves around Paris. We saw the Arc de Triomphe, ate snails and marvelled at Notre Dame. At some stage we made our way to the Louvre. Now here…

Director Vincent Ward’s powerful debut Vigil recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. This 1989 piece from arts show Kaleidoscope looks at Ward’s first two features, Vigil and The Navigator. Ward talks about the madness of the Cannes Film Festival, echoes Jack…

Deloitte has made its predictions for 2025 and the bits concerning the adoption of genAI and Hollywood make for some interesting reading. Giant accounting firm and professional services network Deloitte produces one of the most interesting annual reports looking at…

Kiwi screen legend Cliff Curtis has been honoured at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for his decades-long career spent in front of and behind the camera. At a star-studded ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast on Saturday night, the prolific Māori film-maker received…

They made their business fortune when their ready-to-eat food empire sold for $A125m. This Queenstown couple are now pouring their “blood sweat and tears” into their own feature film. An extraordinary story – perhaps worthy of its own film –…

Sales of British shows to the U.S. hit a record high last year as American buyers looked to stock the shelves with content, according to Pact‘s latest UK TV Exports Report. UK distributor revenues from the U.S. shot up by 13%…

David Farrier is used to getting in over his head. When his 2016 documentary Tickled screened at True/False Festival in Missouri, two private eyes were thrown out, suspected of filming with cameras hidden in Starbucks cups. A trick that Farrier…

Director Gaylene Preston documents the making of Utu, Geoff Murphy’s ambitious Western set during the 1870s land wars. Murphy likens filmmaking to football—“set up the event and cover it”—but the process proves far more complex. From remote set construction to…