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NZ On Air is delighted with the celebration of local content at tonight’s NZ TV Awards, with approximately three-quarters of the awards won by NZ On Air funded content. 

One of those winning shows is After The Party, which took home…

The American Society of Cinematographers presented a discussion about artificial intelligence, focused on how it’s being used today in filmmaking and its legal implications, during cinematography festival EnergaCamerimage. To the latter, there were a lot of questions for panelist Angela…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced the launch of “Veo in Dream Screen,” AI-generated backgrounds in YouTube Shorts. This feature was unveiled at this year’s Made on YouTube event. Veo in Dream Screen is powered by Google DeepMind’s newest model, offering…

There’s a view Netflix isn’t paying enough attention to New Zealand’s screen industry.  The movie and TV streaming corporation is setting up an office in Sydney to take care of Australia and New Zealand.  So far, the content and commissioning…

Following its world premiere at the Terror-Fi Film Festival, Doug Dillaman’s one-of-a-kind sci-fi/comedy/documentary hybrid Gut Instinct is hitting the road. The film will tour cinemas across Aotearoa this summer with live introductions, Q&A sessions, interactive elements, and surprises. A limited…

Long hailed as the beating heart of the entertainment industry, Los Angeles is losing its grip on film and TV production. Once the undisputed leader of Hollywood magic, Southern California faces a dismal reality: plummeting production levels, industry layoffs, creative…

Top figures in the cinematography world took on what they described as “a really critical issue that we all know about in our industry” on Tuesday, sharing war stories from the ongoing fight for greater diversity and inclusion. The broader…