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The board of the NZ International Film Festival has disestablished positions of three of its key staff: Sally Woodfield, Michael McDonnell and Kristen Dowsett. The board, led by its chairperson Kaine Thompson, has restructured the festival’s team to “support our…

When more than 200 players from Auckland’s $8 billion creative economy answered an invite to discuss turbocharging Henderson’s film, theatre and performance industry, planners knew they must be on the right track. The result is the Te Puna Creative Hub,…

California’s program that provides tax relief to film and TV productions is potentially looking at a major revamp amid an increasingly tit-for-tat race to host Hollywood. Lawmakers, in a revised version of a bill that aims to increase the cap…

To mark 10 years since Netflix began operating in Australia, we and our colleagues at the Streaming Industries and Genres Network have published a report that looks at the state of Australia’s streaming industry today – and back at the…

More people in the Australian production industry believe demand for features will fall in the next three to five years than those who think demand will increase, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 industry professionals conducted by government agency…

The NZFC took the opportunity of last weekend’s Wellington Animation Film Festival to announce a couple of initiatives targeting animation. NZFC CE Annie Murray introduced the initiatives, which include a return to Annecy in June, and ring-fenced funding for animation…

Ten years ago, streaming video broke like a tidal wave over New Zealand. Global giant Netflix introduced its streaming service to Aotearoa in March 2015, and how we watch what we used to call just plain old “TV” has never…

YouTube hit a record 11.6% of all TV viewing in February, according to the latest edition of Nielsen‘s Media Distributor Gauge Report. That put the Google-owned video giant in the No. 1 spot, ahead of Disney. The 11.6% stat had…

When OpenAI unveiled technology called Sora last year that lets people instantaneously generate hyper-realistic videos — like a movie trailer of an astronaut traversing a barren desert planet — in response to a text prompt of just a few words,…

This late 70s studio sitcom, penned by Gloss creator Rosemary McLeod, lampooned gender politics with sharp wit. Starring Ginette McDonald and Bruno Lawrence, it was filmed at Avalon Studios. Lawrence’s larrikin turn caught the eye of Roger Donaldson, leading to…

Last week during GTC 2025 the global advertising giant, WPP released a video showing a project in partnership with Boston Dynamics where its humanoid robot, Atlas, appeared to be working as a camera operator on an LED volume filming test…