26 October 2016 It’s been a helluva busy year, and I’ve been offshore more than once, the latest in October when former head of the Council of Trade Unions Helen Kelly died of lung cancer. I never met Helen Kelly. I only knew her from the media as she fought her fights as a fierce […]
29 September 2016 Last week I was at the No Borders Coproduction market in New York, which is part of IFP Film Week. Across 6 days I mixed with mainly American writers, directors and producers who were trying to get their narrative features or documentaries financed. The way the Americans go about it sits in […]
Looking out my window I can see pohutukawa blossoms on my tree. Spring really is here. An interesting time to take the temperature on the industry, I thought. So I decided to ring around the other guilds and pose a simple question: What’s happening? Here are the responses I got as well as my own: […]
Armagan Ballantyne, Alyx Duncan and Gillian Ashurst will each receive $25,000 to further their commitment to feature filmmaking. Thirty applications were received for the award which was targeted at female directors who have made one feature film or have equivalent experience in TV, web series, documentary or drama. As well as submitting a CV, show […]
Fresh from cutting Niko Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, LA-based awarding-winning editor David Coulson ran a two-day Editing Drama Workshop for DEGNZ in Auckland. It was an intimate and highly personal insight into David’s editing philosophy and practice for the editors who attended.