Thanks to DEGNZ member Leanne Pooley for this guest editorial. I recently attended a play in Auckland and while looking at the audience it struck me how many of them were members of the theatrical community. Like dancers and the musical fraternity they were there because a) it was a great show and b) theatre […]
DEGNZ is happy to confirm the 2015/201 board: President: Peter Roberts (editor) Vice President: Howard Taylor (director) Treasurer: Phil Gore (production accountant) National Executive: Kezia Barnett (director) Costa Botes (documentary filmmaker) Grant Campbell (director) Annie Collins (editor) Louise Leitch (director) Roseanne Liang (director) Gabriel Reid (director) Richard Riddiford (documentary filmmaker)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 October 2015 The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ (DEGNZ), NZ On Air and South Pacific Pictures Limited (SPP) announce actor and director Aidee Walker as the DEGNZ TV drama director attachment to SPP’s WESTSIDE 2 television series. Walker will shadow well-known New Zealand actor and director Michael Hurst through a […]
I took some time off work a couple of weeks ago to go to a script development lab in Margaret River with a writer I am working with. There were six Australian writer or writer/directors and their producers there with their projects. The Australian funding system for screen production is somewhat similar to ours, and […]
The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ invite applications from editors with a minimum of 5 years editing experience for eight places on a drama editing workshop with two of New Zealand’s top drama editors, Michael Horton and Jonathan Woodford Robinson. This will be a very special drama editing workshop with Michael (Second Hand Wedding, […]