Snakeskin, directed by DEGANZ members Gillian Ashurst and co-edited by Cushla Dillon, returns to the big screen as part of a specially curated line-up of retrospective films to honour Bill Gosden, former director of Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF). Starring Melanie Lynskey, Snakeskin follows two people bored of mundane suburbia who hit […]
Edited by DEGANZ member Chia Chi Hsu, web series Inked is a milestone in Aotearoa’s television history — our first funded Chinese bilingual drama. That may seem surprising given that Chinese have been in New Zealand since the 1860s, the first non-European and Pacific Island immigrants to arrive. Although Inked reflects the lives of more […]
Writer and director Nic Gorman (DEGANZ) has received funding towards his second feature film The Letting Go. Nic’s 2017 feature film Human Traces premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. He hopes to shoot his next film in present-day Christchurch over six weeks in Autumn next year. The Letting Go is a science fiction […]
Congratulations to our members who have been selected to take part in this year’s Story Camp Aotearoa — director Max Currie with Refuge and documentary director Gwen Isaac with Siouxsie with an X. Story Camp is a development lab tailored to meet the needs of independent filmmakers and their feature film projects. This year Script […]
19th October 2021 ScreenSafe has been seeking clarity about the practical implications of Alert Level 3 (Phase 3) in Auckland. We have done an in-depth comparison of the available public guidance compared to the ScreenSafe COVID-19 Protocols and have also sought WorkSafe and Legal advice. See information here. Ngā mihi, Kelly Lucas Executive Officer Screen […]