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The TV Personality of the Year award is the only publicly voted category within the New Zealand Television Awards. Previous winners include: Bree Tomasel (2022), Nicola ‘Nix’ Adams (2021), Hilary Barry (2020), Matty McLean (2019), Hayley Holt (2018), and Toni…

The New Zealand Television Awards also today reveals Oscar Kightley as the 2023 Television Legend.  Kightley, whose full name is Vai To’elau Osa Isa’ako Mase, is a Samoan-born writer, director, show creator, playwright and actor who has been instrumental in creating critically…

When COVID hit in 2020 and Hollywood screeched to a hard stop, small businesses that service the film and TV industry didn’t know what to do or how long it would last, but they had places to turn. Local governments…

Who should own the intellectual property (IP) of a creative project, and who has the right to earn profits from it?  Those were some of the questions tabled this afternoon on the first day of AGORA series — the Thessaloniki…

Artificial intelligence can do incredibly wonderful tricks for filmmakers that can make the process of getting the film done so much easier and without breaking the bank. But, like any great new thing, there are some dubious elements to AI…

For decades, New Zealand cinema has been defined by three words, conjured up by actor Sam Neill during his time shooting Jane Campion’s 1992 film The Piano – “beautiful, gothic, unique”. These badges of distinction apply to New Zealand’s cinema…

As more than a thousand striking actors and supporters united Wednesday at a massive rally in Los Angeles, the performers union, SAG-AFTRA, and the major Hollywood studios appeared to make progress on key issues and inch closer to a deal.…