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Masterclasses – Day and Night
2024-05-20 10:30 - 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Webinar
Nightzone Productions Present – Masterclass – Day and Night
1030 – 1130 – Bob Buck Costume Designer
1200 – 1300 – Brendan Heffernan Production Designer
1330 – 1430 – Mark Ordesky and Jane Fleming Executive Producers
1500 – 1600 – Susie Glass Hair and Makeup Designer
All four masterclasses will run concurrently on the same Zoom feed.
Please click this link to join the webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85986189328?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Webinar ID: 859 8618 9328
If you have any questions that you’d like to ask, please send them to info@shownews.co.nz and we’ll pass them on.

The Art of Drug Theft, campaign closes
2024-05-20
‘The Art of Drug Theft’ is an 8 minute comedy/coming of age short film about two friends experiencing the highs and lows of friendship as young people. Their friendship is tested when one of them makes the other a willing accomplice in a small-scale drug heist.
The film is made by Victoria University 3rd year students as a part of our final Short Film Production paper. Our crew of creative and aspiring filmmakers are ready to make use of every drop of experience this opportunity grants us, and create a film that we can all be collectively proud of contributing towards.

Kōpere Ake webinar
2024-05-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-14 18:30 - 19:30
Applying for Kōpere Ake? Need help or advice?

Experienced TV creator and NZWG Vice President Rachel Lang can give you top tips about what to include in your series proposal (and what not to) and answer all your curly questions.

Rachel will cover tips and tricks in creating your best Kōpere Ake application, including:
– Title
– Logline
– How many hours / how many episodes / what genre
– If it’s adapted – where from?
– How your story begins / why it’s a great yarn
– Where your story might go
– A description of the characters
– The world of the show
– Tone and Style

Online Workshops
6.30pm -7.30pm, Tuesday 14 May and 10am – 11am, Sunday 19 May

RSVP through the link below for your preferred workshop: https://forms.gle/tzdtowA17MUbWZxD7

Home By Now, campaign closes
2024-05-18
“Home by Now” is a heartfelt exploration of resilience, compassion, and the transformative power of human connection. Through its authentic portrayal of trauma and healing, the film offers a poignant reminder that, even in the darkest of times, we are never truly alone.

Vista 48Hours, shoot weekend
2024-05-17 19:00 - 2024-05-19 19:00
The Vista Foundation 48Hours is NZ’s largest guerrilla filmmaking competition! There is nothing quite like it.
Over 500 teams of filmmakers enter each year with just 48 hours to write, shoot and cut a film with a given genre and some random elements. Filmmakers compete for awards and the title of Grand National Champion, culminating in a Grand Final event.
Around 10,000 shorts have been produced for 48Hours over the years. This will be the Vista Foundation’s fifth year as the naming sponsor of the competition. The Vista Foundation, NZ Film Commission and the 48Hours kaupapa are aligned, with a shared vision of supporting filmmaking talent in Aotearoa.

Bodies of Water, campaign closes
2024-05-17
An estranged mother and daughter meet at the place their relationship fell apart. Can they find peace with each other, or are they bound to repeat the roles they’ve always played?
Bodies of Water is a project exploring the intricacies of maternal relationships in a world that often defines motherhood through a narrow lens.
Directed Shelley Waddams graduated from Unitec in 2017. Her acting credits include Shortland Street, Rings of Power and Our Flag Means Death. Shelley has directed the award winning short film Hand In Hand, which was funded by Someday Stories (now Day One). Shelley currently works as full time writer on the story table at Shortland Street, where she storylines and writes dialogue scripts. Bodies of Water will be her second short film.

SXSW Sydney - submissions close
2024-05-16 19:00
The SXSW Sydney Screen pillar includes the Screen Festival, Screen Industry Program and Curated Mentorship Program.
The multifaceted offering brings together creatives across a wide range of specialities from around the world and provides an unparalleled platform for Asia-Pacific creators to showcase their work to those shaping the future of the industry.
Programming spans feature films, shorts, TV premieres, music videos and XR.‍
Enter Your Submission!‍
Submissions for the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival Showcase close July 25th 5PM AEDT.

Siggraph Asia, XR submissions closing
2024-05-16 08:00 - 17:00
Siggraph Asia has an open call for XR experiences.

Extended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term for augmented (AR), mixed (MR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. Based on the reality-virtuality continuum first proposed by Milgram, it covers the spectrum of immersion from completely physical to completely virtual.

We welcome submissions that push the boundaries of XR technology in research, development and content creation to offer novel experiences to attendees for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 XR Program. This includes state-of-the-art XR for interactive technologies, immersive installation and experiences, storytelling, creative expression, novel displays, collaborative tools, assistive technologies, and any societally and scientifically impactful solutions

There will be 2 categories of submission for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024 XR Program this year.

Category 1: Like past years, we welcome XR Demo submissions that are state-of-the-art, highly novel, and presents attendees with demonstrations that they have never experienced before. The main requirements are:

Must present a novel experience, either in the form of an application or artefact
Properly defined space and equipment required
At least one presenter present at all times
It can be any form of XR and its interaction with other sensory modalities (touch, sound, smell and taste)

Category 2: We welcome XR Theater submissions, which are immersive cinematic storytelling and narrative experiences that can be viewed in a VR display theater-like setting. This submission focuses on the quality of the content (story, visual representation, etc) rather than the novelty in the research. The main requirements are:

It is either a seated or standing experience. Physical walking or wide spatial interaction is not possible due to limited space.
It works in a small space with a consumer headset without any custom device.
It can be demonstrated without the presence of a presenter.
It is primarily VR using standard VR hardware (e.g. Meta Quest). AR/MR submissions are inadvisable unless they obey the aforementioned requirement.

Submissions close 20 June
SIGGRAPH Asia runs in Tokyo 3-6 December

Creative Actualisation
2024-05-15 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for a joint event between Proud Voices On Screen and PASC.
Minority creatives can feel a burden in needing to represent their community on screen. On the other hand, it is freeing to be able to create work you and your community want to see. Creating characters and stories that project what you want to experience in the world can bring things into existence – creation as actualisation.
Nathan Joe will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Ramon Te Wake, Rachel Fawcett and Ankita Singh as they explore their approach to creating work that surpasses known tropes and potentially creates new ones.

Dabble, campaign closes
2024-05-15
This Boosted campaign will help to fund a short film aimed to showcase the tone and style of an anticipated tv series project: DABBLE.
DABBLE follows the creative lives of three queer twenty-somethings — Maud, MT, and Mick — as they navigate the come-ups and setbacks of being artists in Tamaki Makaurau.
It’s a struggle-dark comedy balancing an artist’s reality of day-to-day struggles of being broke, millennial queers with elements of magical realism…

Nowhere to Be, campaign closes
2024-05-13
‘NOWHERE TO BE’ is an intimate portrait of humanity shot during the global coronavirus pandemic, pulling back the curtain on those who are usually behind the camera – showing that the need to create will always endure.
It’s April 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, humanity is brought to a standstill. All ages, races, and genders are suddenly united in experience. As people grapple with the consequences, 31 cinematographers across 21 countries turned to an integral part of human nature: storytelling. They did this in the only way they knew how with a camera in hand. Using their art to look inward. Examining reflections, hopes, dreams and regrets. Uncovering the human experience of a moment in time that will define a generation.
Filmmaker Charlotte Evans is an award-winning documentary, music video, and commercial director. Since starting her career as an editor in London, Charlotte has directed, produced and edited music videos for artists such as Benee, Kimbra and Aldous Harding. She is currently in post-production on her first feature documentary Being Chlöe, developed from her short OK Chlöe.

Homecoming, campaign closes
2024-05-13
Fundraising for a short film that tells the story of a transgender woman, Charlotte, returning home to come out to her parents . But the dinner quickly goes south, as her parents struggle to come to terms with her transition, and Charlotte’s anxieties begin to manifest themselves in dark, sinister ways.
The film is a psychological drama, written and directed by emerging transgender filmmaker Grae Meek, and is an authentic portrayal of the anxieties of coming out to those you love – and perhaps fear – the most.

Screen Acting Workshop 2024, Auckland
2024-05-11 - 2024-05-12
This weekend intensive trains actors to create believable characters and emotionally connected relationships on screen.
Working in pairs with scripts, actors learn the Art of Relating, which maximises creative choices and trains actor to bring their emotional instincts to the screen.

PISA Writers Room, Christchurch
2024-05-11
Our second Writer’s Room for 2024 will be in Ōtautahi (Christchurch) and online, and will be led by award winning writer Victor Rodger ONZM (Sons, My Name is Gary Cooper). The topic of focus for this Writer’s Room will be: Synopsis and Treatments.

Victor Rodger (Iva) is a multiple award winning Otautahi-born writer of Sāmoan and Scottish descent who works in television, theatre and film. His screen credits include Shortland Street, Teine Sa: The Ancient Ones and This is Piki. He currently has two television projects in development, including one that is set in his hometown. In 2021 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to theatre and the Pacific arts.

Queer Producers Incubator
2024-05-10 - 2024-05-11
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.

Scene Group, Wellington, application deadline
2024-05-10
A month long season of weekly scene groups is coming to you!
Collaboratively run, democratic, no leader, participatory – just practice and encouragement. You will prepare and perform a scene for your peers and support each other to have fun and take risks. Positive, encouraging feedback only. A chance to improve your acting “fitness” or try out characters you think you’d never get cast for.
4 Tuesday evenings in a row, 21 May – 11 June. Ideally you can commit to all of them.

Scene Group, Christchurch, application deadline
2024-05-10
A month long season of weekly scene groups is coming to you!
Collaboratively run, democratic, no leader, participatory – just practice and encouragement. You will prepare and perform a scene for your peers and support each other to have fun and take risks. Positive, encouraging feedback only. A chance to improve your acting “fitness” or try out characters you think you’d never get cast for.
4 Sunday evenings in a row, 26 May – 16 June. Ideally you can commit to all of them.

My Grubby Halo, campaign closes
2024-05-10
The Pink Floyd Experience are a Kiwi band who have been wowing crowds for 28 years. They are hard-working men and women with day jobs.
They have toured widely in New Zealand and Australia and have a following on social media approaching 45,000 true believers internationally. Their gigs are sold-old, visually and audio-wise brilliant – reproducing image-for-image and note- for-note the true sound of the original Pink Floyd. The band have covered every Pink Floyd album, including “The Wall” and last year’s spectacular 50th Anniversary “Dark Side of the Moon” tour.
This year they will reproduce one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic concert experiences – the awesome “Pulse” show, first staged at Earls Court in London thirty years ago. There’ll be “Pulse” and much more, at venues throughout Aotearoa.
Two very experienced film-makers and journalists, Rob Harley and Alan Seay, want to work with the Pink Floyd Experience to make a highly memorable 60-75 minute, high quality documentary on the 2024 tour.

How We Got There: Kiel McNaughton and Kerry Warkia
2024-05-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us in the second instalment of How We Got There: From Idea to Impact, where attendees come face to face with two vanguard storytellers whose cultural identities fuel their mahi.
This event brings you face-to-face with Kiel McNaughton and Kerry Warkia, a storytelling duo whose cultural identities fuel their creative work. Starting as actors, they’ve built Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions into a force in the New Zealand screen industry. Their passion for diversity and showcasing unique stories has led to a successful portfolio of web series, features, and television series.

Doc Edge Festival 2024 - Programme Launch
2024-05-09
By invitation, Christchurch

Moana Pasifika Producers Development Initiative - Q&A
2024-05-08 18:30 - 19:30
The Moana Pasifika Producers Development Initiative is an initiative funded by the New Zealand Film Commission that aims to provide emerging Moana Pasifika screen producers with the skills, knowledge, and networks to develop and produce compelling content for New Zealand’s screen industry. Our vision is to implement impactful change to New Zealand’s screen sector by increasing and developing the number of competent Pacific Islands creative practitioners. Through a series of consecutive fono, coupled with a 4-month mentorship, participants will cover the producer-specific knowledge to upskill and springboard their careers, enabling them to better understand, safely navigate and feel confident to contribute to New Zealand’s screen sector.
Interested in applying to our Moana Pasifika Producers Development Initiative? Unsure about something? Still have more questions? Join our online Q&A about the programme, the application process and requirements.
Save your spot by registering today!

Paint It Black, campaign closes
2024-05-08
Fundraising campaign for David Harrison’s short drama.
After an actress’s career is ruined for rejecting another actor’s sexual advances, her family devises an elaborate plot to enact revenge by dismantling his reputation.
Who are we?
Dead Slate Studios is a production company made up of film school graduates. Our members specialize in Producing, Directing, Acting, Camera, Lighting, Audio, Post Production, and Art Design.
We are a group of collaborators who thrive off each other’s creativity. Paint it Black was originally a film school final project, but now that we have graduated, we are embarking on reshooting the film to elevate its overall quality for submission to Film Festivals.

Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking, Auckland
2024-05-04 13:00 - 16:00
Michael Duignan (The Paragon), Tom Levesque (Shut Eye), and Tom Sainsbury (Loop Track) will join Mia Maramara to discuss the end-to-end production processes of their respective feature films and how they kept to their shoestring budgets of under $500K without scarifying craft and quality.

Pitchfest 2024
2024-05-03 - 2024-05-04
Pitchfest is hosted by Wellington’s Floating Rock Studio.
In 2022, they received an investment by Hillfarrance and are using that money to invest in YOU, the creator, of your upcoming animated film or TV series.
We’re here to support you and your vision with $100,000 to build a pitch, then present to buyers!

Indian Short Film Night, Christchurch
2024-05-02 19:00 - 20:30
India has the largest screen industry in the world, by output, producing double the number of films made in Hollywood each year. Nourished of course by a flourishing short film scene. In this collection Show Me Shorts has collaborated with the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala to curate six shorts from top Indian filmmakers.
The stories span different regions, languages and flavours, but are united in their exploration of the connections between friends, family and the natural world around us – all with English subtitles
Rating: TBC

7pm, Thursday 2 May, Alice Cinemas

BOOK TICKETS – CHRISTCHURCH

Two Productions Talk Sustainability
2024-05-02 10:00 - 11:30
We’d like to invite you to join the sustainability teams from two significant Auckland-based film productions for a discussion about sustainable practices on different screen productions, including waste and emissions reduction measures the productions undertook, and our experience calculating emissions footprints.
This is a wonderful opportunity to ask questions and learn from the people on the ground. Please share this invitation around and show support. We hope to see many of you there.
Last November the new points test for the 5% rebate uplift came into effect. In its shortest form, all productions wishing to access the Uplift are now required to:

Have a sustainability officer.
Produce a sustainability action plan ahead of production.
Produce a report on sustainability and their carbon emissions.

You can read more about these requirements here: Accessing the 5% Uplift

Screen Producers Australia - Screen Business Essentials: Online
2024-05-02 09:00 - 2024-05-03 17:00 | online
This two-day online intensive, presented in conjunction with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), covers the essentials of setting up and running a screen business. The workshop covers the commercial framework in which producers must operate, including issues commonly encountered when building a creative business from the ground up.
The Screen Business Essentials program is vital for start-ups and serves as a refresher for established businesses and producers. Michelle Hardy (Industry Programs Consultant, SPA) is the course convenor. The program will be taught by a range of industry experts across the business, accounting, and legal sectors.
Topics include:
Legal structures for businesses and for productions, tax incentives and compliance, financial management of a production including managing cash flow and business planning;
Up-to-date information on copyright and chain of title, distribution and licensing agreements, employment law, cast and crew agreements, fringes and insurance; and
New insights into rights negotiation, film and television industry sources of finance.
The workshop will also feature a fun, fast-paced and high energy, digital speed networking event in which participants are randomly matched for a 5-minute meet and greet, giving attendees the opportunity to network with their fellow screen professionals.
If you are already involved in production and looking to get serious in terms of your business growth and project development, this course will be an invaluable two days with access to a range of industry experts.

Indian Short Film Night, Wellington
2024-05-01 19:00 - 20:30
India has the largest screen industry in the world, by output, producing double the number of films made in Hollywood each year. Nourished of course by a flourishing short film scene. In this collection Show Me Shorts has collaborated with the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala to curate six shorts from top Indian filmmakers.
The stories span different regions, languages and flavours, but are united in their exploration of the connections between friends, family and the natural world around us – all with English subtitles
Rating: TBC

7pm Wednesday 1 May, Southern Cross Garden Bar and Restaurant

BOOK TICKETS – WELLINGTON

What does AI mean for the entertainment industries?
2024-05-01 19:00 - 20:00
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest technological craze – enabling computers to create text, images, audio, and even video in mere seconds from just a short description of what the user wants.
However, like all disruptive technological developments, Generative AI has the potential to cause great harm, according to an expert in the field of game design. Associate Professor Adrian Clark is a lecturer in the University of Canterbury’s School of Product Design who describes himself as “equal parts fascinated and terrified by Generative AI”.
As the technology has improved, the results are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from real media or artistic works created by humans, allowing even the most artistically challenged person to bring their creative ideas to life.
“We’ve seen news stories of people using ChatGPT to cheat on school assignments and DeepFakes used to spread political disinformation and propaganda, but with Generative AI’s intrinsic creative focus the entertainment industries have perhaps the most to lose,” Dr Clark says. These concerns recently reached boiling point, culminating in 2023 with strikes by the Writers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors’ Guild, both of which were calling for limits in the use of generative AI in their industries.
In his free UC Tauhere Connect public lecture, on Wednesday 1 May at the Ōtākaro 146 L1 Lecture Theatre, Dovedale campus, he will explore the subject: What does AI mean for the entertainment industries?
Associate Professor Adrian Clark is a lecturer in the University of Canterbury’s School of Product Design, where he teaches Game Design and Development. He is involved in teaching and research related to the Applied Immersive Game Design major in the Bachelor of Product Design degree, and Game Development in the Bachelor of Digital Screen (Honours) degree. With a PhD in Computer Science plus almost a decade of experience working as Head of R&D in a creative tech company he co-founded which worked extensively with film studios, Dr Clark has interests in both the technical and artistic sides of the creative industries.
UC Tauhere Connect public talk: What does AI mean for the entertainment industries? Presented by Associate Professor Adrian Clark, School of Product Design, Engineering, University of Canterbury, 7pm – 8pm, Wednesday 1 May 2024, the Ōtākaro 146 L1 Lecture Theatre, Dovedale campus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
Register to attend free at: www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucconnect.
It’s free to register to attend in person, to watch via Facebook livestream or view later on YouTube. Videos of UC Tauhere Connect public talks are available usually a week after the live event.
