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Story Camp: application deadline
2023-11-13 23:59 (Pacific/Auckland)
Story Camp Aotearoa is a residential feature film workshop that cultivates exceptional filmmaking by fostering voice, honing craft, and clarifying vision and kaupapa. Selected storytellers workshop their film project with esteemed advisors from here and abroad.
Story Camp 2024 seeks feature film projects ready for a in-depth development process. Projects can be at any stage from a well-developed treatment through to a script in advanced development. Up to eight selected writers or teams will participate in a rigorous four-day experience designed specifically to meet the development needs of their project.

Gaylene Preston Writing Workshop
2023-11-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Te Atamira, Queenstown
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.

Waves
2023-11-11
Short film Waves is crowdfunding on Boosted, until 11 November.

Post-Production Drama Lab: applications close
2023-11-10 16:00
The Post Production Drama Lab is a one-of-a-kind mentoring lab for Producer/Director/Editor teams working on drama projects that include short or feature drama films and series.
Up to five selected Producer/Director/Editor teams will converge in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland for a mentoring weekend, led by editor Annie Collins.
The two days will cover:

Introductions, approach, and expectations
Before you get started
During the shoot
During post
Receiving and dealing with feedback
Handovers

The lab will also cover:

Post scheduling
Post technical requirements and equipment
Handling VFX
Pickups and found footage, including archival

Follow-up Mentoring:
Each team will receive one x 1.5-hour post-lab mentoring session with Annie Collins. This must be used within 9 months of the lab. Meetings can be in person or online. DEGANZ is unable to cover travel costs for mentoring sessions.
Kaupapa:
The Guild’s kaupapa is to strengthen director-editor teams in our screen industry and see an increase in long-lasting, creative collaborations.
To support director-editor teams, we aim to deepen participants’ understanding of the editing process and ways to manage it (and troubleshoot effectively). Do consider applying if your project is facing problems.
A key focus of the Lab will be how the process supports both the project and the relationships between the creative team.
Eligibility:
The Post Production Drama Lab is aimed at emerging/mid-career directors, producers and editors.
This workshop is open to all members of the film industry, however there is a ticket price for non-DEGANZ members.
To be eligible:

Producer-director-editor teams must be working on their first drama together OR working together for the first time on a drama
All three team members must commit to attending the full Lab in November

When:
Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 November 2023, 9 am to 5 pm
Where:
TBC, Auckland
Cost:
DEGANZ Member (Team member or observer) – Free
Non-member (Team member or observer) – $75*

Applications Close: 4 pm, Friday, November 10, 2023
Please complete the application form

NZWG Seed: application deadline
2023-11-10 12:00
NZWG Seed and Seed Advanced grants offer support for scripts to which the writer(s) hold the rights.

Local Lens, Global Reach: The Power of Place in Filmmaking
2023-11-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Christchurch
Join director Thaddeus D. Matula (“Into the Spotlight”) as he unravels the art of storytelling and the architecture of narrative structure.
Discover how compelling stories thrive on the foundations of “but,” “therefore,” and “meanwhile.” Thaddeus, a storytelling vessel, compares his approach to carving out the transcendent truth hidden within reality, much like Michelangelo’s pursuit to free the angel from marble.

Blue Book Changes
2023-11-08 18:00
Join us for an evening to learn everything you need to know about The Blue Book. This book – which contains the standard conditions for crew working in film and TV production in New Zealand – has recently been updated for 2023. We’ll explain these updates and how they will affect your contracts and work on set.
Guest panellists from The Screen Guild Sally Cunningham (Wellington Branch Chair) Christian Gower (Auckland Branch Chair) and Adrian “Wookie” Hebron (National Executive Committee) will walk through what the changes mean for you.
We’ll also cover The Screen Industry Workers Act (SIWA) which came into force on December 30, 2022, which allows screen industry contractors to bargain collectively.
So come along for food, beverages, and to familiarise yourselves with things like Mandatory Terms or Minimums, The Screen Industry Workers Act, the new Screen Guild rate cards and more.
Don’t miss this chance to learn and ask questions of this great panel of people working on behalf of all New Zealand film and television crew.
Seats are limited so be quick to register for this event.
Free for NZCS and Screen Guild Members. Non-members $40.

Kinetic 001
2023-11-07 18:30 - 20:30
A new series of events for the MDGA, Kinetic looks to give experienced motion designers the chance to share their knowledge and process with the community. Our 3 speakers from across the spectrum of motion disciplines will share their insights, experiences, and the secrets behind their captivating work. We’ll explore the latest trends and innovations in motion design, and you’ll have the chance to delve into some awesome motion design projects.
We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and interact with our speakers to gain a deeper understanding of the work.
So, whether you’re a seasoned motion designer, a curious novice, or simply someone interested in the art of storytelling through motion, this event is for you. Seats are limited so make sure you grab a ticket below.
Our speakers for Kinetic 001 are:
Timo Lenton – How to make a Houdini Piñata
Ryan Bird – Animated Faces on Inanimate Objects
Sean Kothe – Dance of Pixels

Pollywood
2023-11-07
The Pollywood Pasifika Film ‘twenty1’ collection has seven films representing The Cook Islands, Samoa, Hawaii & NZ – 90 minutes of mythical, inspiring, curious, confrontational and honest stories. Pollywood twenty1 will serve as a guide through grass roots to award winning film and multi-media art.
Screenings are rated M due to offensive language and drug use.

Pollywood, 7 Nov, Auckland (Mangere Arts Centre)
Pollywood, 18 Nov, Auckland (Auckland Art Gallery) (opens in a new tab)
Pollywood, 23 Nov, Auckland (Te Uru, Titirangi)

Kōpere Hou Fresh Shorts: application deadline
2023-11-06 13:00
Kōpere Hou – Fresh Shorts identifies and nurtures the next generation of New Zealand filmmakers. Script to Screen is working in partnership with NZFC to deliver the Kōpere Hou – Fresh Shorts programme.

NZ Web Fest
2023-11-05 - 2023-11-13
The NZ Web Fest runs online 5-13 November. Register here (it’s free!) to enjoy the podcast, shorts and series selections.
This year’s awards for NZ finalists run in-person in Auckland on Sunday 12 November.

Story, Character and Execution: with Pip Hall
2023-11-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Dunedin
Spend a day with Pip Hall (One Lane Bridge, Jonah, Why Does Love?) as she guides participants through her process when developing story ideas for TV series.
Throughout the day Pip will look at character and character function, theme and story engine as well as constructing an outstanding pilot script and pitch document. This workshop will be craft based and combines practical elements, presented content, group work, discussion and case studies.

Night Freaks: NZ Premiere
2023-11-02 20:00 | Auckland
Join us down the rabbit hole for the NZ premiere of Night Freaks, a multi genre mashup musical.
During the COVID pandemic ordinary citizens Jules and Lucy are abducted by grey aliens, taken onboard a UFO where they’re given a message of hope for the world in these fractured times. Back on earth, both Jules and Lucy go on a journey of discovery, grappling with the tear in the fabric of their everyday reality from being abducted in the COVID lockdown.
David Blyth’s film stars Yvette Parsons (Ruby Tuesday, Educators, What we do in the Shadows.), Andrew McLennan, musician/composer (Coconut Rough, Pop Mechanix, The Swingers, Another Life) and introduces Jemma Pollock. Guest stars include Geeling Ching, Ian Mune, and Tom Sainsbury.

VFX Guild Launch, Auckland
2023-11-02 19:00 - 22:00
We have assembled some top notch VFX professionals for the evening. Tobias Wolters, VFX Supervisor and VFX Producers Max Serges and Will Reece who will all be joining us to talk about the evolution of the VFX production department, interdepartmental collaboration and onset workflows including emerging technologies.
We welcome local screen industry, VFX academic staff and students on Thursday the 2nd of November to the Media Design School for a networking event, doors open at 7PM.
We are launching our ‘Join Now’ Campaign which offers members who sign up on the night and receive 25% off of their annual membership fee. RSVP here.

Remote Collaboration
2023-11-02 08:00 - 17:00
Date: Thursday 02 Nov 2023
Location: Park Road Post Production, 141 Park Road, Miramar, Wellington
Time: 5:30 – 8:30pm
5:30-6:00pm Welcome drinks and food (come hungry!)
6:00 pm-7:00 pm Remote Collaboration live demonstration with Chicago, Toronto & Colombia

During this live presentation you’ll see how to work remotely with any kind of timed-based media, covering topics such as ADR, Review & Approval and more.

7:00 pm-7:30 pm Question time
7:30-8:00pm Drinks, food, conversation
Nibbles, tapas and drinks will be provided.

Spaces will be limited so register now! REGISTER HERE

Table Read Four: submission deadline
2023-11-02
NZWG and DEGANZ are once again offering Virtual Table Reads for 2023.
A core cast – max. six actors – together with a writer + director team OR writer/director will collaborate on each script-in-development table read. The script must have a director attached and have been through a development process.

Film Auckland AGM and Catchup
2023-11-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Longroom, 114 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
It’s time for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and opportunity to catch up with everyone.
With a couple of challenging years of lockdowns, weather events, writer and actor strikes, funding reviews and a stalled public broadcasting merger, and now a change in government, it is a great time to get involved and help steer the future of our industry to be the best it can be!
The AGM is open to all FAI members. You can ask questions, make your suggestions, nominate someone for the board, or stand yourself.
Come along and hear from Matt Horrocks about the Screen Taskforce and Clayton Tikao on the Sites and Places of Significance to Mana Whenua.
If you aren’t already a member, this is an excellent chance to join and get involved.
If you are not attending, you may still register your apologies, and/or appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf. Simply follow the registration process and fill in the relevant fields.
If you’d like to make a nomination or propose an agenda item, please email eo@filmauckland.com Nominations can also be accepted from the floor but only if the nominee is present or has given consent.

Australian Film Forum
2023-11-01 08:00 - 2023-11-02 17:00 | Virtual Streaming
The Australian Feature Film Forum is for everyone in the business of making, distributing or exhibiting and investing in Australian feature films.

ShowNews Academy
2023-10-31 19:00 - 21:30 | Academy Cinema, 44 Lorne St, Auckland, New Zealand
Watch Out! They Get You While You’re Sleeping!
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.
Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman’s brilliant update of the 1956 classic is a rare and memorable exception. Transposing the action to the heart of San Francisco allows Kaufman to retain all the suspense of Jack Finney’s original story while adding caustic social commentary about the selfishness of the 1970s ‘me generation’ that remains all too relevant today.
But it’s a paranoid thriller first and foremost, based on one of the most psychologically terrifying of all premises – what happens when you can no longer trust not just the authorities but even your nearest and dearest?

Māoriland: regular submission deadline
2023-10-31 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.

American Film Market 2023
2023-10-31 - 2023-11-05 | Los Angeles
Every November, the entire global film industry converges in Santa Monica for the American Film Market.
AFM is the premier film acquisition, development and networking event where more than $1 Billion in distribution and film financing deals are closed each year on completed films and those in every stage of development. More business-oriented than any other motion picture event, thousands of professionals from all corners of our industry come together at AFM to develop, showcase, discover, finance and license 1000s of independent films and projects destined for the world’s audiences.
At AFM, participants can also attend The AFM Sessions – 30+ world class conferences and panels, and connect with the independent film community’s decision makers, all in one convenient location.
AFM is the only sales market produced by the Independents for our industry.

PISA Fresh Shorts drop-in
2023-10-30 17:00 - 20:30
We have an opportunity for Pacific Islands Screen artists who are applying for the Kōpere Hou Fresh Shorts 2023 Fund to attend our Drop-in session on Monday 30th October. Each session will provide 30-45mins with experienced Filmmakers who can provide guidance on your application.
We have limited sessions available between 5:15pm – 8:30pm, so be sure to secure your spot today as these will be allocated on a first-in first serve basis.
If you have any questions, please email info@pisa.org.nz

WIFT Awards: nominations close
2023-10-30 17:00
You do not have to nominate someone in each category, but you can if you like. If you don’t have a nominee for a particular category, please just skip to the next one.
NOTE: You can come back and edit your responses later provided you use the same device.
The Award categories are:

South Pacific Pictures Award for Achievement in Film
Images & Sound Award for Success in Television and Digital
SAE Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Hinterland Woman to Watch Award
Imagezone Entrepreneurship Award
Professional Lighting Services Award for Unsung Heroine of the NZ Screen Industry
The Queenstown Camera Company Craft Award
Wētā FX Creative Technology Award
Te Māngai Pāho Te Reo Māori Champion Award
Warner Bros. Discovery Award for Moana Excellence
Great Southern Film & Television Award for Outstanding Contribution to the NZ Screen Industry

How to Become a Script Supervisor
2023-10-29 13:00 - 14:30
I’m Jennifer Carriere and in the last 15 years I have script supervised literally hundreds of episodes of network television and dozens of films. I created, out of sheer necessity, the most efficient, fail-proof script supervising system possible. This enabled me to work far more shows per year than is standard (or even conceivable). Being an outstanding script supervisor led me directly to becoming a high-volume tv associate producer. Now I apply the same efficiency and focus to educating about the powerful, misunderstood role of the script supervisor, and training and mentoring future script supervisors straight into their own impactful film careers, in record time.

Production Designers Muster
2023-10-28 18:00 - 22:00
An evening meetup for all New Zealand production designers, art directors, set decorators and prop masters. Welcome drinks and food.
Introduction by Grant Major about the goals of the International Production Designers Week and the Production Designers Collective. Brief talk from two production designers about recently completed projects. Zoom link available for those who can not attend in person.

Contact nz.productiondesigners@gmail.com for more info.

Unscripted TV Development
2023-10-28 - 2023-10-29 | Tauranga
Got an idea for a reality Tv show and want to learn how to take it through to fruition? This is the workshop for you.

Whether you are an aspiring or experienced producer join Emmy Award-winning television producer Jon Kroll (Amazing Race, Gordon Ramsay Unchartered) as he takes you through the ins and outs of the diverse world of unscripted television.

The Relationship Between Cinematographer & Colourist
2023-10-25 18:30 - 21:30 | Images & Sound, 113 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auckland, 1010
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 which lends itself to the story. But how do Cinematographers work with Colourists?
With no hard and fast rules about how to get from A to B, and with these unique types of collaborations usually happening in dark grading suites behind closed doors, how does it all happen? And how do you best tackle a grade?
Join us at Images & Sound for a panel discussion where we’ll hear from experienced guests about how this specialised relationship works. Panellists include Colourists Alana Cotton and Paul Lear and Cinematographers David Cameron NZCS ACS and Tammy Williams.
Join us from 6:30 PM for pizza and refreshments with the event kicking off at 7:00 PM, to better understand the dynamics and evolution of the grading process, as well as the intricate relationships formed.
Seats are limited so be quick to register for this event.
Free for NZCS Members. Non-members $40.
NOTE: Student membership is $46, so if you’re a student interested in coming along, why not become a member for an extra $6 and get entry to this event as well as free entry to our other events throughout the year.

Terror-Fi
2023-10-25 - 2023-11-14
From ‘Looney Tunes’ to ‘Lunatics’, Terror-Fi 2023 sees the festival’s best and most diverse line-up yet!
This year’s programme has been carefully curated to include award-winning and audience favourite genre films from festivals like Sundance, SXSW, Fantasia, Toronto, Sitges, and Fantastic Fest… with some incredible hidden gems and two retro classics thrown in for good measure!
Terror Fi runs in
Wellington: 25-29 October + 31 October (Halloween Screening)
Auckland: 25 October (Opening Night Screening) and 2-6 November
Christchurch: 25 October (Opening Night Screening) and 9-14 November

Workshop with James Napier Robertson: How to Write a Great Film Script
2023-10-21 09:00 - 17:00 | Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland, 1021
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 explore structure and how this can continue to take shape throughout development and how all these elements combine and contribute to ‘the larger truth’ of your story. James will also devote some time to talk about career progression and approaches to developing your own work.
Promising to be both interactive and engaging, this is a terrific opportunity to spend a day focusing on your craft as a writer. Bring a notebook or device and be ready to take notes.
Who is it for: Anyone 17+ with a story idea they want to develop into a film script.
When: Saturday 21st October, 9am – 5pm
Where: Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021
Wheelchair access is available. If you require special assistance, please let us know.
Cost: General Admission $28.00 (incl. GST) via Humanitix.
What to bring: Notebook & pen or note-taking device, water bottle and lunch. Snacks, tea and coffee will be provided. 1hr lunch break – cafes within walking distance.
Parking: Limited parking is available, allow adequate time to find a park; using public transport is recommended.
Post Workshop: After the workshop, you are invited to relocate (location TBC) to socialise and buy your own drinks.

Someday Stories: application deadline
2023-10-20 17:00
Someday Stories 8 (in production 2024) 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
