The debut feature from Auckland-based director Armagan Ballantyne, The Strength of Water, has been selected for two of Europe's oldest and most prestigious film festivals.
Māori filmmakers Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith have won the 2019 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship, selected after a global call for applicants.
Cliff Curtis will make his directing debut on a family film based on the true story of a boy whose dog is lost overboard, feared dead.
NZ On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission are funding the development of 10 series ideas with international and domestic appeal.
The Indigenous creative teams in Australia and New Zealand were developing the anthology feature 'Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply' when they decided the basic premise wasn't right.
Libertine Pictures and Slim Film + Television’s family action-adventure series 'Mystic' has been recommissioned for two more seasons by CBBC and TVNZ.
Essie Davis and Leah Purcell will battle it out in the best performance by an actress category at next month's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, while 'Nitram' lead Caleb Landry Jones and Australian/Afghan film 'When Pomegranates Howl' are also among the nominees.