Thomas Robins to Speak at Content London as Head of Originals, Sky NZ
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06/08/2025
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Mad Max director George Miller to judge Australian AI film festival
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06/08/2025
George Miller has been announced as a headline judge for the October 2025 edition of the OMNI AI Film Festival, adding star power and industry weight to Australia’s first dedicated showcase of AI-generated cinema.
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NZ On Screen – Tuesday Spotlight: CINEMA
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05/08/2025
This 1981 TV documentary blends history and future predictions for New Zealand’s film industry. Featuring interviews with Geoff Murphy, John Barnett, and NZ Film Commission’s Bill Sheat, it explores Kiwi film’s uncertain future.…
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NZ Screen Awards Entries – 3 Days to Go
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05/08/2025
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Australasian Creative Unions Call for Urgent AI Regulation
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05/08/2025
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Why is NZ On Air suddenly funding reality television?
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05/08/2025
This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Get in here you lot, because yesterday, NZ On Air announced its Round Tahi 2025 Non-Fiction Funding Decisions. It’s big news for those of us who love documentaries, factual series and podcasts,…
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Kiwis Shine at Australia’s Biggest TV Awards – Sam Neill and Guy Montgomery Win Big at the Logies
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04/08/2025
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Reboot of kid’s classic and return of popular series with NZ On Air funding
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04/08/2025
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NZ On Air secures another year of audience favourites and exciting new content
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04/08/2025
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Stan Tops Australian Drama Commissioning in 2024 – Leaving Global Streamers in the Dust
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04/08/2025
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Cinelease, Major Movie Lighting and Grip Rental Firm, Sold
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02/08/2025
Cinelease, a mainstay in Hollywood motion picture and television equipment rentals for nearly five decades, has been sold to a private investment firm.
The Mark Lamberton-led rental company — which is headquartered in Los Angeles but now has locations in…
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VFX industry warns NZ may lose opportunities and workers
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02/08/2025
The visual effects industry is warning without bigger tax breaks for the film industry New Zealand will loose major opportunities and highly specialised workers. Weta FX is considering axing a hundred jobs. It said various factors are driving the decision…
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How two ‘elderly aunties’, Robin White and Gaylene Preston, made a film together
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02/08/2025
This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
This Sunday a quietly powerful observational documentary, Grace: A Prayer for Peace, is premiering at the NZ International Film Festival. In the film, renowned painter and printmaker Robin White pours natural pigment…
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From Dunedin TV station to global powerhouse: the story of NHNZ
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02/08/2025
It’s hard to compare Dunedin to Hollywood.
However, for four decades, the small, academic city in New Zealand’s deep south was home to a powerhouse of global documentary filmmaking.
Born in Dunedin’s TVNZ studios in the 1970s, Natural History New…
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A Hawaiian epic made in NZ: why Jason Momoa’s Chief of War wasn’t filmed in its star’s homeland
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01/08/2025
Jason Momoa’s historical epic Chief of War, launching August 1 on Apple TV+, is a triumph of Hawaiians telling their own stories – despite the fact their film and TV production industry now struggles to be viable.
The series stars…
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Thomas Robins to Speak at Content London as Head of Originals, Sky NZ
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06/08/2025
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Mad Max director George Miller to judge Australian AI film festival
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06/08/2025
George Miller has been announced as a headline judge for the October 2025 edition of the OMNI AI Film Festival, adding star power and industry weight to Australia’s first dedicated showcase of AI-generated cinema.
Read on…
Read More »
NZ On Screen – Tuesday Spotlight: CINEMA
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05/08/2025
This 1981 TV documentary blends history and future predictions for New Zealand’s film industry. Featuring interviews with Geoff Murphy, John Barnett, and NZ Film Commission’s Bill Sheat, it explores Kiwi film’s uncertain future.…
Read More »
NZ Screen Awards Entries – 3 Days to Go
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05/08/2025
Entries close this Friday 8th August at 5pm, so make sure you don’t leave it last minute and miss out!
Enter here…
Read More »
Australasian Creative Unions Call for Urgent AI Regulation
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05/08/2025
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Why is NZ On Air suddenly funding reality television?
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05/08/2025
This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Get in here you lot, because yesterday, NZ On Air announced its Round Tahi 2025 Non-Fiction Funding Decisions. It’s big news for those of us who love documentaries, factual series and podcasts,…
Read More »
Kiwis Shine at Australia’s Biggest TV Awards – Sam Neill and Guy Montgomery Win Big at the Logies
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04/08/2025
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Reboot of kid’s classic and return of popular series with NZ On Air funding
Keith Barclay
04/08/2025
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NZ On Air secures another year of audience favourites and exciting new content
Keith Barclay
04/08/2025
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Stan Tops Australian Drama Commissioning in 2024 – Leaving Global Streamers in the Dust
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04/08/2025
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Cinelease, Major Movie Lighting and Grip Rental Firm, Sold
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02/08/2025
Cinelease, a mainstay in Hollywood motion picture and television equipment rentals for nearly five decades, has been sold to a private investment firm.
The Mark Lamberton-led rental company — which is headquartered in Los Angeles but now has locations in…
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VFX industry warns NZ may lose opportunities and workers
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02/08/2025
The visual effects industry is warning without bigger tax breaks for the film industry New Zealand will loose major opportunities and highly specialised workers. Weta FX is considering axing a hundred jobs. It said various factors are driving the decision…
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How two ‘elderly aunties’, Robin White and Gaylene Preston, made a film together
Mark It
02/08/2025
This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
This Sunday a quietly powerful observational documentary, Grace: A Prayer for Peace, is premiering at the NZ International Film Festival. In the film, renowned painter and printmaker Robin White pours natural pigment…
Read More »
From Dunedin TV station to global powerhouse: the story of NHNZ
Mark It
02/08/2025
It’s hard to compare Dunedin to Hollywood.
However, for four decades, the small, academic city in New Zealand’s deep south was home to a powerhouse of global documentary filmmaking.
Born in Dunedin’s TVNZ studios in the 1970s, Natural History New…
Read More »
A Hawaiian epic made in NZ: why Jason Momoa’s Chief of War wasn’t filmed in its star’s homeland
Mark It
01/08/2025
Jason Momoa’s historical epic Chief of War, launching August 1 on Apple TV+, is a triumph of Hawaiians telling their own stories – despite the fact their film and TV production industry now struggles to be viable.
The series stars…
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