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This letter is not meant as a complaint, but a stark and sobering reality check on what it truly means to be an Australian filmmaker today. I want to pull back the curtain on the perceived glamour surrounding people like…

Mark Beesley’s gripping documentary recounts the harrowing 119-day ordeal of four men trapped in an upturned trimaran. Mixing raw interviews with spare reenactments, it captures their fight for survival. The epic tale won Best Documentary at the 1997 NZ Television…

By now everyone in Hollywood knows YouTube is a dominant player in the video ecosystem, but a prominent Wall Street analyst argues that YouTube still has a long period of growth ahead of it. MoffettNathanson’s Michael Nathanson writes in a…

One year after Video Ezy opened its first store in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Broadcasting Act 1989 was introduced. It established frameworks and funding for local content that largely still exist. But in 2025, New Zealanders’ viewing and listening habits…

High-profile backlashes against the use of AI in film and TV suggest the industry underestimates the audience’s negative attitudes toward the technology. Film and TV companies must either reduce or be transparent about their use of AI or risk reputational…

Creating not just a whole new fantasy adventure world but one fantasy adventure world per episode was the herculean task set by Taika Waititi, Iain Morris and Jemaine Clement for AppleTV+ series Time Bandits and not least for colorist Damian McDonnell who…

Nintendo’s live-action The Legend of Zelda movie could be part of a planned trilogy, as production prepares for shooting later this year. According to Production List, as tracking service run by the Film & Television Industry Alliance, Zelda will shoot…

Producers should embrace artificial intelligence to navigate the ‘existential’ challenges facing the film and TV industry, according to Erik Barmack, the founder of Los Angeles-based production and distribution outfit Wild Sheep Content. Barmack, who headed international originals at Netflix until…