Author name: Mark It

Sustainability in filmmaking isn’t advancing fast enough, and real progress will require structural reform, cultural change, and mandatory standards — that was the blunt consensus from filmmakers across Japan, Spain, Australia and India at the International Film Festival of India’s…

Taika Waititi has closed a new first-look deal with 20th Television, FX Productions and Hulu — all divisions of Disney where he has a long history, both on the TV and the feature side. Under the pact, he will develop…

For more than two decades, New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro has built a career that has swung between breakout indie success and the upper echelons of studio filmmaking. She first drew international attention with Whale Rider, a small, community-rooted drama…

Christchurch filmmaker Kenta Lord’s WWII drama follows American soldiers through Normandy in this technically accomplished short. Winner of the 2025 OnScreen Student Filmmaking Competition, judges praised its technical mastery and emotional depth, with Kate Rodger calling it.…

Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on a new level of importance, as the form is…

Josh Williams has a story that anyone building the future of artificial intelligence might want to pay attention to. A visual-effects student at Bournemouth University in the U.K., Williams always wanted to make movies but kept slamming into the same…

Jennifer Ward-Lealand, President of Equity New Zealand, has been elected to the top ranks of the Fédération Internationale des Acteurs (FIA) at the organisation’s World Congress in Birmingham. Ward-Lealand joins five other vice-presidents from Canada, Sweden, Uruguay, the UK and…

Australia has always been Baz Luhrmann’s greatest muse. No honour speaks to that bond more perfectly than his new AACTA ambassadorship, alongside his wife and creative partner, Catherine Martin. The visionary director, whose films have long defined Australia on the…