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The government will press ahead with a revised version of the Digital News Bargaining bill, and tweak SPR provisions to allow more TV shows, including Shortland Street, to access it. Read on RNZ.…

Te Māngai Pāho turns 30 Te Māngai Pāho celebrates three decades of te reo Māori creativity, innovation and excellence in the Māori broadcasting sector. Established in 1993 but operating since July 1994, our original mandate was to fund content which…

A new Wellington queer film collective has a mission – to completely take down the film hierarchy. The New New film collective was formed in November last year. It was co-created by Stevie Goodwin who had just completed his master’s…

Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has rolled out its full line-up for 2024: 86 feature films and 19 shorts. The full line-up, schedule, and ticket info is now on the festival website, along with a downloadable pdf…

Artificial intelligence can be used as a tool, with relatively few limitations, under the agreement struck last week between the major studios and the union representing film crews. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees released further details of its…

Blackmagic Design has done it again by launching an Android version of its extremely successful camera app. It’s not just about the advanced camera features the Blackmagic Camera for Android gives you. Still, it connects to the whole ecosystem like…

Award-winning Wānaka freelance documentary maker Ben Wallbank struggled to keep up with the Rab Wahine adventure racing team around Fiordland during the GodZone World Adventure Racing Championships in 2023. But there was a reward for his hard slog, trying to…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff It’s been 31 years since a teenage Angela Bloomfield first stepped onto the set of Shortland Street, but those early days on the iconic New Zealand soap are still imprinted on her…

TVNZ says social media images of an executive excursion to Los Angeles were “inappropriate”, as it reveals the full, almost $30,000 cost of the business trip amid a range of job losses, axed shows and a forecast operational loss of…