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Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has unveiled details of seven additional international guests attending SCREEN FOREVER 39, all actively seeking collaborations with Australian producers. Set to take place on the Gold Coast from Tuesday, May 6 – Thursday, May 8, 2025,…

The programme is out for the 12th annual Māoriland Film Festival. The festival offers 130 films and digital works from 86 Indigenous nations. This year’s festival theme, Ko te mauri, he mea huna ki te Moana, reflects the life force…

The Anime Awards, the highest animation-focused honour in the industry, ran over the weekend, with little in the way of surprises. Favourites Arcane and The Wild Robot were very successful at converting nods into wins. The Wild Robot was the biggest winner of the evening…

Netflix’s Boy Swallows Universe swept the AACTA Awards on Friday, February 7, securing six wins and bringing its total tally for the week to 12. The coming-of-age drama claimed Best Miniseries and Best Screenplay in Television for John Collee, while…

This week brought the annual bunfight that is Waitangi Day, a source of pride and prejudice, acknowledged, celebrated or avoided depending on how you feel towards it and what it represents. It is what it has become over the years:…

This 1982 Contact episode takes viewers behind the scenes of one of New Zealand’s most ambitious commercials. The big-budget Crunchie bar ad, masterminded by Colenso Communications and commercials king Geoff Dixon, involved gruelling 12-hour days filming inside the Waitomo Caves.…

Yesterday, we lost David Lynch from this plane of existence, and the world feels a little less weird. Lynch was a singular voice whose work on screen came from some of the most inventive and engaging screenplays I have ever…

Wellington-based Wētā FX has earned two nominations at the BAFTAs for their groundbreaking visual effects work on Better Man and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Better Man, a biopic of Robbie Williams directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest…

A classic of American literature is being adapted into a Netflix series, starring Florence Pugh, and with parts of New Zealand as its backdrop. The seven-part series East of Eden, based on John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel and set in the Salinas…

Dutch Merrick fought to save his house for hours on Tuesday night and well into Wednesday morning. As one of the wildfires currently ravaging the L.A. area, the Eaton fire, charged toward his neighborhood in Altadena, California, the veteran prop…

Barry Barclay — director of landmark TV series Tangata Whenua and feature film Ngati — was one of the first to bring a Māori perspective to the screen. This feature-length portrait features extensive interviews with Barclay and those who knew…

Screenwest, the Western Australian screen agency, has secured a record-breaking A$10.7m (NZ$11.4m) funding boost for 2024/25, courtesy of the state government’s Lotterywest program. The new allocation surpasses last year’s unprecedented A$9.2m grant and aligns with the state’s strategic focus on…