A lot of words, little meaning
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Ness Patea & Joel Tempero – 48Hours
Ness Patea and Joel Tempero talk this year’s Vista Foundation 48Hours competition, which opens its doors for registrations on Monday (1 June).…
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BSS names first speakers for 2026
This year’s Big Screen Symposium has started rolling out the names of speakers who’ll be presenting at the event in early July. The first announcement has a strong focus on domestic talent.
Last year’s attendees will be happy to hear…
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Bruce Hopkins – Action Actors
Bruce talks about selling Action Actors, which has been supporting actors in Auckland for many years by providing temp work.…
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Eloise Veber – Proud Voices on Screen
Eloise talks about the three initiatives Proud Voices On Screen is running this year, and the Queer Screen Development Toolkit resource. See who’s been selected for the 2026 Queer Producers Incubator here and Queer Writers Incubator here.…
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Au Re:voir – TVNZ pulls plug on Youth Brand
Tomorrow (Friday 29 May) sees the end of Re: News, TVNZ’s youth-focused news platform, which made it to nine years old.
In an appropriately youth-focused approach, the news didn’t arrive via a media release, but via a post the Re:…
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Kevin & Co. – Please Don’t Break Anything
Producer Lealani Siaosi and show creators Max Griffin & Donald Mackenzie Mayo talk about bringing proof-of-concept teen drama series Please Don’t Break Anything to the internet with Kevin & Co.
Enjoy the series here.…
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LOMU drops trailer, heads home to Tonga
The official trailer has been released today for LOMU, a powerful and compelling portrait of the man behind the legend, Jonah Lomu, the most adored son of the Pacific, a legendary All Black, who transcended the game with his immense power…
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Leanne Pooley – Choir Games
Leanne Pooley talks about Choir Games, a double winner at SeriesFest, and the challenges facing factual content in the current environment.
(In 2009, Leanne directed Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. This interview was recorded before the new of Dame Jools’ death…
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NZ Box Office Report: 24 May 2026
Nobody will be surprised that The Mandalorian and Grogu took over the top spot this weekend. On 110 screens, it took $932,358. In less good news, it also achieved the unwanted record of becoming the mega-franchise’s worst opening weekend. Ever.…
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NZ titles among New York Festivals winners
The New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, handed out last week, gave wins to of the five NZ titles nominated for awards.
Taking away Gold Towers were South Pacific Pictures’s Live and Let Dai, in the documentary category; and…
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ImagineNATIVE names plenty of NZ titles
One feature and a truckload of shorts head to Canada for next month’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which plays in person and online.
Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama, coming off a successful trip to the Seattle International Film Festival, is…
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South African Film Festival sets line-up and ANZ dates
The eighth edition of the South African Film Festival will present 33 short and feature films online across both countries, supported by a small programme of cinema screenings.
Auckland is the only NZ centre getting a cinema outing, and that’s…
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RIP Jools Topp
Entertainer Jools Topp, half of the Topp Twins, the subjects of Leanne Pooley’s award-winning doco Untouchable Girls, has passed away, aged 68.
Read more on The Herald.…
Beyond Tariffs: Why the New Zealand–India Trade Deal Matters for Culture and Screen Production
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