The world is awash with bad news at the moment, whether it’s the war in the Middle East, the planned shutterings announced by Heinz Watties and McCain in Hawkes Bay, or the lack of domestic and international production in Aotearoa this year. It’s with a great deal of pleasure, therefore, that I got to watch […]
I remember the first director’s training session for TV I attended now many years ago. Our workshop facilitator, John Harris, who went on to establish production company Greenstone, told us that one way to think of directing was like shopping: we had a shopping basket, and we had to fill it up for the editor […]
While there has been a delay in the good weather arriving, it’s now back. At least for the moment where I’m sitting and writing this. In Auckland. It’s just one of the positives of the New Year. At the box office: Tinā is currently at $6,486,864 Pike River sits at $1,439,550 Prime Minister is recording […]
As we come to the end of 2025, it’s worth taking a look at where the NZ screen sector stands. Global market pressures have been buffeting the New Zealand screen sector for years, and our hair is a little more than tussled. Our industry has been in reactive mode for at least the last 10 […]
The Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand is both a guild and a union. We’ve been a union since 2019. The NZ Writers Guild started out as a union in 1976 and Equity New Zealand came into existence as a union in 1944. We three are the unions in New Zealand’s screen sector, […]