ONFILM New Zealand

MediaWorks transitions to new company via receivership

Editor — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:36:29 +0000

Via our sister company, AdMedia: Media Release 17 June 2013 MediaWorks NZ Limited funders today appointed Brendon Gibson and Michael Stiassny of financial advisory firm KordaMentha to oversee the receivership of MediaWorks NZ Limited and its subsidiaries, including RadioWorks Ltd and TVWorks Ltd. “We are working with a strong management team and assuring current employees, [...]

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Big Screen Symposium 2013 — Earlybird about to fly

DanS — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:13:50 +0000

The Big Screen Symposium is an event not to be missed so mark your calendars for the 10th and 11th of August! This is the event that gets all of the filmmakers in New Zealand into one room. Earlybird ticketing closes on Monday 24th June. Don’t wait to buy your tickets! Visit the website for [...]

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Announcement — Kelly Lucas moves on from ONFILM

Editor — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:59:24 +0000

Sadly, Kelly Lucas has moved on from her long-term role as sales manager for ONFILM & The Databook to look at new opportunities. She will be greatly missed by her clients and contacts — some who’ve become close friends — as she will be by the magazine and publishing team. She wished us to pass [...]

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Join NZFC to celebrate life of Anna Cahill — Friday 13 June

DanS — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:41 +0000

Via Lisa Chatfield, Short Film Manager, NZFC: We are all saddened by the passing of Anna this week. The NZFC would like to invite Wellington filmmakers to come and get together to celebrate her memory by sharing a drink and a bite to eat. We will provide the snacks, please BYO your choice of drink. [...]

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Blankets to Palm Springs

Editor — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:49:21 +0000

The Palm Springs International Short Film Festival has selected Louise Leitch’s latest short, Blankets, for their (Sur)Real Life programme. The film screens on Sunday 23rd June at the festival venue — Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs — along with films from Poland, Spain and the USA. Director Louise Leitch and team will attend the screening to represent [...]

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Job — NZFC is looking for a Development Executive

Editor — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:59:12 +0000

Development Executive – New Zealand Film Commission Are you passionate about filmmaking? Do you have experience in script development as well as excellent organisational and interpersonal skills? Established to encourage New Zealand filmmaking by an Act of Parliament in 1978, the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) provides loans and equity financing to New Zealand filmmakers [...]

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Anna Cahill, ED of the Screen Directors Guild, passes after short illness

DanS — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:58:32 +0000

ONFILM was travelling yesterday and unable to post this news (except by Twitter). The Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand announced on Monday 10 June that their Executuve Director, Anna Cahill, had passed away on Saturday 8 June after a short illness. Cahill had been Executive Director of the Guild for eight years and her [...]

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Neil Cross — live on stage

DanS — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:27:01 +0000

Acclaimed film and television writer (and also novelist), Neil Cross, will be appearing on stage in Wellington later on in June to talk about his career writing work like Luthor, Dr. Who and Spooks. The Wellington-resident will be apprearing at the intimate Ilott Theatre at the Town Hall on June 29 and tickets are available via [...]

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Auraeus Solito: Script to Screen events

DanS — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:26:57 +0000

Internationally-acclaimed Palawanon-Filipino director Auraeus Solito will be appearing at two Script to Screen events this week, in Wellington and Auckland. Full details after the jump. Script to Screen and Nga Aho Whakaari present two special events with internationally acclaimed Palawanon-Filipino director Auraeus Solito WELLINGTON: WED 5 JUNE; AUCKLAND: THURS 6 JUNE Auraeus Solito’s first feature [...]

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Kiwi filmmakers’ pitch for success in Toronto

Editor — Fri, 31 May 2013 02:46:34 +0000

Tom and Sumner Burtsyn (known for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary This Way of Life) won the top prize at Toronto’s Hot Docs Pitch Forum earlier this month with their proposal for their new film Some Kind of Love. The pitching session generated a lot of interest and has propelled the film several stages closer to production. More [...]

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NZIFF Best Shorts finalists announced

Editor — Thu, 30 May 2013 03:39:59 +0000

The six finalists for the New Zealand International Film Festival’s Best Shorts competition have been announced and they feature a 50–50 split between male and female directors. Alison Maclean’s selection includes films by Oscar Kightley (Tom’s Dairy), Walter Lawry (Blind Mice), Dan Kircher (Interim) and three films directed by women better known as actors: Lauren Jackson’s [...]

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Shopping: ONFILM Interview with Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland

DanS — Wed, 29 May 2013 00:08:26 +0000

The latest Kiwi feature film, Shopping, has its NZ premiere tonight at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington. Co-writers and directors Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland spoke to ONFILM last week about the film, and the production process. Shopping opens in cinemas around the country on Thursday 30 May. How closely does the finished film resemble the [...]

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NZFC releases ‘Statement of Intent’

Editor — Mon, 27 May 2013 08:48:17 +0000

Following last week’s release of the NZ On Air 2013–2016 Statement of Intent, the Film Commission has issued theirs. With the Government review of the sector ongoing, they have made no startling announcements of new initiatives instead stressing business as usual for the remainder of 2013 and 2014. The full 33 page pdf is available now.

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Jake Mahaffy — Script to Screen “Writer’s Room” 28 May

Editor — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:58:11 +0000

A Spirit of Independence with Jake Mahaffy EVENT: TUES 28 MAY 2013, 7:30–8:30pm, The Classic For our May Writer’s Room we are joined by innovative US filmmaker Jake Mahaffy, whose shorts and microbudget features have screened in A-list festivals all over the world. His project War, which he wrote, directed and produced, screened at Sundance in 2004, [...]

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Webber signs on for The Colour

Editor — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:55:28 +0000

The NZFC announced yesterday that Emperor and Girl With a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber will direct an adapation of award-winning novelist Rose Tremain’s historical novel “The Colour” in 2014. The film will be a costume drama set during the 1860s Gold Rush and is to be produced by Ray Marshall of Festival Films (from the UK) [...]

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Eternity to Shanghai Fest

Editor — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:34:09 +0000

Alex Galvin’s self-funded sci-fi feature Eternity has added another festival selection to its impressive list of achievements. The film — which was released in NZ cinemas in April — is an official selection of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival which starts on June 15. It’s the second NZ feature to screen at a Chinese festival [...]

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NZ On Air announces 2013–2016 ‘Statement of Intent’

DanS — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:59:53 +0000

The agenda for broadcast funding over the next three years has been unveiled with the release of the latest NZ On Air Statement of Intent. The 44 page document outlines the current state of play for the funding agency and features a great deal of what a different organisation might call ‘market research’ to support [...]

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Boosted campaign to bring state-of-the-art cinema to the Isaac Theatre Royal

DanS — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:37:31 +0000

The New Zealand International Film Festival launched a Boosted campaign this afternoon to make cinema presentation part of Christchurch’s Isaac Theatre Royal restoration. The project is due for completion in 2014 and an additional $280,000 is required so that the restoration and earthquake repair can include state-of-the-art digital projection facilities. $70,000 has already been provisionally granted [...]

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New Academy Cinemas management honoured by NZMPIC

DanS — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:14:29 +0000

Barely seven months into his reign over Auckland’s Academy Cinemas, Managing Director Andy Miller has been honoured with the Best Independent Cinema Manager award from the New Zealand Motion Picture & Industry Council. The Academy also picked up the Best Exhibitor Local Marketing Campaign prize for their Zero Dark Thirty “Cell Phone” promotion. Miller says [...]

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Jane Campion honoured at Cannes

DanS — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:04:35 +0000

The only woman to win a Palme d’or, Jane Campion, was honoured again at Cannes this weekend when she received the prestigious Carosse d’or from the Society of Film Directors at the opening of their Directors Fortnight. Before the presentation, Campion appeared a special Q&A for an hour and a segment of that conversation was [...]

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