Queenstown Writers Festival invites you to apply for a three-hour screenwriting workshop with acclaimed filmmaker and writer Dame Gaylene Preston. Dame Gaylene is a leading light of New Zealand cinema. She is both director and screenwriter of Ruby and Rata and Bread and Roses, and the director of the documentaries War Stories Our Mothers Never Told […]
Spend a day with James Napier Robertson (The Dark Horse, Whina) as he guides participants through his approach to screenwriting and developing story ideas for film. Throughout the day James will look at what makes a great story, discuss the stages of development, the fundamentals of character creation and connecting character to story. He’ll also […]
Colourists contribute to the feel and mood of a film or series by helping to define its look. Working with the Director and Director of Photography, they tune in a palette and tone; whether the look is contrasty and warm or cooler in the shadows, there’s lots of magic that happens in the grading suite […]
