ShowNews

Crescendo, campaign closes
2024-04-09
A virtuoso pianist at a prestigious music conservatory struggles to reconcile her relentless pursuit of perfection with her father’s rigorous standards, leading her on a journey of self-discovery and a quest to redefine success on her own terms.

Film Worker Freedom Well-being Webinar
2024-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | online
A deep dive into how we, as film/TV workers, can make meaningful change towards our well-being – no matter what our current personal experience of the industry is. Hosted by holistic life coach (& costumer), Crystel Tottenham.
Come explore what’s holding you back from better well-being by looking at your whole picture with powerful mind, emotions and energetics coaching tools.
Please feel free to share with your film friends who need to give themselves a bit of T.L.C.
Sign up here with the link below or via the Linktree.
https://forms.gle/JP1k7WU61dvrcsdD6

Casting Intensive with Anousha Zarkesh 2
2024-04-07
Equity Foundation NZ is thrilled to be bringing the renowned Australian casting director Anousha Zarkesh to Aotearoa for one weekend of work with Equity NZ members.
If you are selected (there are very limited spots) you will spend one day in an intimate setting with Anousha, learning from the notes she gives you and your peers. You will need to prepare one scene. There will be opportunity at the beginning and the end of day for Q&A.

Casting Intensive with Anousha Zarkesh 1
2024-04-06

How We Got There: Idea to Impact with Flat 3, Auckland
2024-04-03 18:30 - 20:30
Pan-Asian Screen Collective presents How We Got There: from Idea to Impact. Join us for an engaging and informative discussion where we delve into the creation of a successful series from its inception to delivery!
PASC members JJ Fong, Perlina Lau, and Ally Xue, the creative and producing team behind Flat 3, reunite to share insights on how an independently sourced $1,000 investment and a promising idea propelled their project to three successful series.
Register here.

Day One: Launch Party and Fundraiser
2024-04-03 18:00 - 21:00
Running since 2007 (formerly known as the Someday Challenge), Day One Challenge has evolved to include wrap-around support with year-round educational content, a series of events and an annual cinema showcase.
Day One Hāpai te Haeata is having a party and and a fundraiser in Tāmaki Makaurau! We want you to come so we can share this exciting chapter with you.
Scout talent, rub shoulders, meet your next collaborator. We’re bringing together funders, screen partners, educators, young creatives, and supporters at Te Pou Theatre, Henderson, Auckland
Tickets cost $25 with proceeds helping us to create a How to series for rantagahi in schools.

An Introduction To Narrative Design
2024-04-03
Narrative Design is the process of understanding story as a system. This understanding allows storytellers to better connect to both play and interactivity, for games, XR and live choice-driven experiences. It also gives a look “under the hood” at how story functions on a meta and micro structural level, which can help linear storytelling move away from rigid conventions.
This practical workshop will introduce three validated processes of narrative design that can be used across a wide range of media.

The high concept formula can be used to break down any story into its important elements, regardless of source media.

Narrative design patterns are a way of understanding how the story unfolds over time, detailing the dramatic relationships between the different elements.

Designing valuable choices requires its own process. Not all choices are created equal, and while choices can be created for aesthetic reasons, their story value to the audience should still be understood.

These result in clear and simple diagrams that can be used to clarify ideas, facilitate discussion and communicate to stakeholders.
The workshop runs in Auckland.

Show Me Shorts, earlybird deadline
2024-04-01
Show Me Shorts is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival. Our mission is to connect New Zealand audiences with short films and share New Zealand short films with the world. We celebrate the short film art form and champion short film makers!
During October 2024 Show Me Shorts will put on 100 screenings in 35 cinemas across New Zealand. The festival will also include screenings of many of the short films through our on demand platform – these films will be geo-blocked to allow only New Zealanders to watch them.

MDGA logo competition - submission deadline
2024-04-01
The MDGA 2024 Logo competition is a way for local Motion Designers to show off their creativity and compete for some sweet prizes, provided by our very generous sponsors. It is open to all Aotearoa New Zealand based Motion Designers, students or professionals and will be judged by some of the top Motion Designers and Animators in the country.

Simply create a 5-10 second animation, starting and ending on the MDGA logo.

NZ Web Fest, earlybird deadline
2024-03-31
Since 2015 NZ Web Fest has curated and celebrated online entertainment. Since 2017 the festival has been a proud participant in the Web Series World Cup. In 2023 the festival became a participant in the inaugural edition of the Audio Fiction World Cup.
The festival selects podcasts, short films and web series.

Interference - campaign closes
2024-03-30
1980s New Zealand, where being gay means hiding in plain sight and local homophobes, backed by the Far Right churches of Reagan’s America, are hell bent on destroying any liberal fantasies of change. With money and power behind them, they wage open warfare on New Zealanders fighting for their right to be different.
It was brutal, it was dangerous, at times it was funny as hell … and it changed our nation forever.
There’s no director in the country who can tell this story with more passion and authenticity. Welby Ings (Punch, Sparrow, Boy) knows the story intimately. In the early 80s, he started his small town’s three person pressure group, Gay Rights of Taihape. Arrested several times and with his teaching career under threat, he threw himself into the national campaign, protesting, infiltrating and interfering as much as possible with the opposition.

NZIFF - International Submissions Deadline
2024-03-28
This year’s festival will take place in July/August.
You should include a press kit with a brief synopsis or description of your film and the key credits for your film along with an online screener. We will only accept submissions online, via an online screener.

ShowNews Academy - TOUCH OF EVIL
2024-03-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Academy Cinema, 44 Lorne St, Auckland, New Zealand
Each month ShowNews presents a film at Academy Cinemas picked by a special film industry guest. For March, director Gregor Nicholas has chosen an Orson Welles classic TOUCH OF EVIL
Tickets only $10!
Happy Hour drinks from 7pm.
Screening 8:15pm.
111 mins | Rated PG | Drama
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies (Joseph Calleia), are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), in jeopardy.

South Shorts, application deadline
2024-03-25 13:00
During this six-month mentorship programme, successful applicants attend a series of one-day hubs and are led through focused script development under the guidance of Briar Grace-Smith. Briar brings considerable experience and knowledge to the room for group mentorship, and each participant also gets one-on-one feedback. The hub days involve script read-throughs, writing exercises, and hearing from guest speakers about their experiences making films.
On completion of the programme, you will leave with new skills and tools to develop your work, a great new network of like-minded practitioners, and a completed short film script.
This initiative is intended for people who live in South Auckland or are connected to the South Auckland community

Night Waves, campaign closes
2024-03-24
Raising funds for post-prod on drama short Night Waves

Beyond Improv, Christchurch
2024-03-24
The word “improv” has come to define a style, a tone, a genre. Let’s move beyond that word and investigate the tools available to an actor looking to create something new, whether the words are written down for them or not. This active, fast-paced workshop is about acknowledging your creative agency and learning to “write” using tools specific to the actor: action, games, and the endless surprise of your scene partners.
Led by actor, director, and teacher, Jonathan Price

Top of the South Screenwriting Seminar
2024-03-23 - 2024-03-24
The Top of the South Screenwriting Seminar 2024 is now open for registrations so be in quick!
With world class screenplay consultants and teachers Kathryn Burnett and Steve Barr facilitating, this promises to be an amazing weekend, March 23 and 24 in Whakatū/Nelson.
The course outline, Kathryn and Steve’s bios, and a link to register are within the event.
See you there!

Beyond Improv, Wellington
2024-03-23

Casting Intensive with Anousha Zarkesh 1, application deadline
2024-03-21
Equity Foundation NZ is thrilled to be bringing the renowned Australian casting director Anousha Zarkesh to Aotearoa for one weekend of work with Equity NZ members.
If you are selected (there are very limited spots) you will spend one day in an intimate setting with Anousha, learning from the notes she gives you and your peers. You will need to prepare one scene. There will be opportunity at the beginning and the end of day for Q&A.
The event runs Saturday 6 April in Auckland.

Specialty: campaign closes
2024-03-21
James Ladanyi’s Specialty – is a Wellington-set doco series about the city’s dozens of roasteries, hundreds of cafes serving specialty coffee, and thousands of people partaking in the ritual of daily consumption.
This four-part documentary series will explore Wellington coffee genesis, its history, and its present-day culture.

Casting Intensive with Anousha Zarkesh 2, application deadline
2024-03-21
Equity Foundation NZ is thrilled to be bringing the renowned Australian casting director Anousha Zarkesh to Aotearoa for one weekend of work with Equity NZ members.
If you are selected (there are very limited spots) you will spend one day in an intimate setting with Anousha, learning from the notes she gives you and your peers. You will need to prepare one scene. There will be opportunity at the beginning and the end of day for Q&A.
The event runs Sunday 7 April in Auckland.

Maoriland Film Festival
2024-03-20 - 2024-03-24
Each March the Indigenous world comes together in Ōtaki, Aotearoa (New Zealand) to celebrate Indigenous screen storytelling at Māoriland Film Festival, the largest Indigenous film festival in the Southern Hemisphere.
Located on New Zealand’s Kāpiti Coast, Ōtaki is a vibrant seaside town where Māori culture and language thrives. Māoriland is celebrated for its manaakitanga and community spirit. It is a place where creatives come to heal.

Screen Forever 2024
2024-03-19 - 2024-03-21
Uniting the pillars of entertainment, media and technology, SCREEN FOREVER is one of the largest congregations of screen industry professionals in the Southern Hemisphere and attended by The Who’s Who in Australian screen business – the leading Australian and international industry practitioners involved in all aspects of producing, creating, writing, directing, distributing and financing screen content across film, television, games, interactive and online.

Queer Producers Incubator, application deadline
2024-03-19
The Queer Producers Incubator is a two-day intensive workshop taking place on Fri 9th and Sat 10th May in Tāmaki Makaurau. The workshop will support and upskill 5 emerging queer identifying producers who have at least one project in development.
Sessions from guest speakers will be tailored to the group and include the following topics:
– Supporting a team through story development
– Upskilling in pitching, funding and financing
– Creating safe spaces in development, production, and marketing.
After the workshop, the 5 participants will receive mentoring in the form of 2 x 1 hour Zoom sessions with a producer mentor, to be completed by the end of June 2024.
The aim is to upskill queer producers, offering tailored support and a network of peers as they progress further in their careers.

Queer Producers Incubator: application deadline
2024-03-19
The Queer Producers Incubator is a two-day intensive workshop taking place on Fri 10th and Sat 11th May in Tāmaki Makaurau. The workshop will support and upskill 5 emerging queer identifying producers who have at least one project in development.
Sessions from guest speakers will be tailored to the group and include the following topics:
– Supporting a team through story development
– Upskilling in pitching, funding and financing
– Creating safe spaces in development, production, and marketing.
After the workshop, the 5 participants will receive mentoring in the form of 2 x 1 hour Zoom sessions with a producer mentor, to be completed by the end of June 2024.
The aim is to upskill queer producers, offering tailored support and a network of peers as they progress further in their careers.

Applications close 19 March.

Vista 48Hours, registration period
2024-03-18 - 2024-05-15
To compete in the 48Hours you need to register a team in your local region. Teams can be any size. We’ve had solo operators and teams of over twenty. You can be an industry veteran or have never made a film before, the competition is open to everyone.
Earlybird registrations run March 18 – April 17 – $199 per team.
Full registrations run April 18 – May 15 – $260 per team.
The shoot weekend is May 17 – 19.

Beyond Improv, Christchurch, application deadline
2024-03-18
The word “improv” has come to define a style, a tone, a genre. Let’s move beyond that word and investigate the tools available to an actor looking to create something new, whether the words are written down for them or not. This active, fast-paced workshop is about acknowledging your creative agency and learning to “write” using tools specific to the actor: action, games, and the endless surprise of your scene partners.
Led by actor, director, and teacher, Jonathan Price
Workshop runs 24 March in Christchurch
Applications Close 18 March

Beyond Improv, Wellington, application deadline
2024-03-18
The word “improv” has come to define a style, a tone, a genre. Let’s move beyond that word and investigate the tools available to an actor looking to create something new, whether the words are written down for them or not. This active, fast-paced workshop is about acknowledging your creative agency and learning to “write” using tools specific to the actor: action, games, and the endless surprise of your scene partners.
Led by actor, director, and teacher, Jonathan Price
The workshop runs 23 March in Wellington
Applications Close 18 March

Southern Pilots – applications close
2024-03-18
Script to Screen, in partnership with Film Otago Southland, launches an exciting new development opportunity called Southern Pilots, for Otago and Southland based screen creators.
Script to Screen and Film Otago Southland are looking for new and emerging filmmakers with compelling, bold series story ideas suitable for development and viable for future production. Southern Pilots offers both talent and project development for three teams. The teams will have one-on-one advisor sessions and hear from industry speakers over a three-day development workshop, which aims to create outstanding pitch documents to present to potential producer partners and funders.

PISA Writers Room
2024-03-16
PISA’s Writers Room in Wellington will be led by accomplished academic and filmmaker Marina McCartney (Milk & Honey, Vai, My Life is Murder).
This Writer’s Room will be focusing on Short Films – Story Creation and Loglines.
Free, but registration required.
