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Writing for Television Masterclass
2023-10-17 10:30 - 2023-10-31 12:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
Join NYWIFT for our inaugural Masterclass Series: Writing for Television with critically-acclaimed writer Amy Fox.
Powerful television can shape hearts, change minds, and expand worldviews with memorable characters and riveting plots. You have your story idea – but how can you translate it to the screen? This series of three masterclasses focuses on building the foundation for you to write an original narrative TV pilot.
Writers at all levels will walk away from this course with marketable skills and renewed passion, from those writing their first script to more experienced writers looking to dive into their next project and refresh their approach.

British & Irish Film Festival
2023-10-17 - 2023-11-05
The festival runs 17 October – 5 November across several venues. Visit the website for full info.

SXSW Sydney
2023-10-15 - 2023-10-22
– From live showcases to massive parties – experience the worlds of Music, Screen and Games all around the city.
– See the next generation of tech, innovation and games disrupters.
– Connect with inspiring speakers, panelists and mentors.

Gaylene Preston writing workshop: application deadline
2023-10-14
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 Us and My Year with Helen. She is deeply committed to telling New Zealand stories for New Zealand audiences – and equally dedicated to helping upcoming filmmakers realise their own vision.
This interactive workshop will investigate the space between the page and the screen and help you translate the idea in your head into a pitch-worthy document. Established and aspiring filmmakers in all genres are welcome, from documentary to drama and everything in between.

The Filmmaker as Shooting Director
2023-10-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Click Studios, 525 Rosebank Rd, Avondale, Auckland
There are many reasons these days why a filmmaker may find themselves shooting their own footage: think Dame Gaylene Preston following Helen Clark at the United Nations, Briar March for Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold or Rachel Currie on the TVNZ docuseries Unbreakable.
Come along to this event, bring your camera and join our panel of Dame Gaylene, Briar and Rachel as they discuss the pros and cons of directing as the camera person with broadcast quality in mind. This is an interactive workshop. FUN and instructive!!! Clips will be screened!

Māoriland Film Festival: final deadline
2023-10-11 08:00 - 17:00
Māoriland exists to uplift the perspective and stories of Indigenous peoples.
Māoriland considers film, video, digital and interactive media work and artwork (all mediums) made by Indigenous creatives.
To be eligible for your work to be presented or displayed by Māoriland, an Indigenous creative must be credited in a key role such as director, producer or screenwriter.
The 11th Māoriland Film Festival – MFF2024 will take place from 20-24 March, 2024.

Someday Stories: application deadline
2023-10-11 08:00 - 17:00
This Request for Proposals (RFP) invites;

funding applications from emerging young filmmakers under 29 years old in Aotearoa to make their first funded short film with urgent themes that matter to them

AND / OR

applications from aspiring young filmmakers in Aotearoa to take on an unpaid New Filmmaker Placement to shadow one of the commissioned Someday Stories productions

You are welcome to apply for both of these.
The deadline for Someday Stories 8 applications is 5pm, Friday 20th October 2023

MDGNZ Coffee Catchup
2023-10-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Bestie Cafe, St Kevin’s Arcade. K’ Road, Auckland
Pop in on your way to work and grab a coffee with some fellow motion practitioners.

Show Me Shorts Industry Day
2023-10-08 12:00 - 21:00 | The Hollywood Avondale, 20 Saint Georges Road, Auckland
Calling short film makers, students and anyone interested in learning more about what goes on behind the scenes in making movies. Join us for a full day of interactive professional development workshops, filmmaker talks, networking and screenings of short films. Presenters will be available for informal meetings throughout the day. Tickets provide entry to all of the following events, plus access to the garden bar and networking cafe.

Show Me Shorts Film Festival
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-29
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!

ShowNews Academy - Wings Of Desire
2023-09-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Academy Cinema, 44 Lorne St, Auckland, New Zealand
Each month we have a film picked by a special film industry guest. This month we have the legendary German director Wim Wender’s poetic ode to Berlin, WINGS OF DESIRE! Specially chosen by production designer Ashley Turner.
Tickets only $10!
Happy Hour drinks from 7pm.
Screening 8:15pm.
127 mins | Rated PG (Coarse language) | Classic
Directed by Wim Wenders | Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
WINGS OF DESIRE is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
