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Time to Grow Up

Yesterday I was sitting all day on line in the National Affiliates Conference of the Council of Trade Unions. There were three of us from the screen industry. Teachers, nurses, forestry workers, maritime workers, supermarket workers and everybody…
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Hard Work Brings Good Luck

I attended the DEGNZ Rialto Film Talk last night of James Ashcroft’s Coming Home In The Dark. Listening to James talk in the Q & A facilitated by DEGNZ member Hweiling Ow, it was clear to me that not only had James worked incredibly…
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More on RoVE

One of the things we are doing at DEGNZ at the moment in response to the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) that I wrote about two weeks ago, is to map the pathways for directors and editors into the industry. For editors, we have already…
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Educating Rita… Hemi, Raj, Liwei, Carmen and Others for the Screen Industry

The vocational education system for all industries is undergoing massive reform right now. It’s come at a time when the New Zealand screen industry has been suffering from a lack of experienced workers due to the high levels of domestic and…
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New Beginnings

Mark Jennings, co-editor of online news platform Newsroom, and former head of News at TV3, has penned an article on Discovery’s plans for TV3. As Jennings writes, after Discovery’s merger with WarnerMedia., TV3 is now part of the second…
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Documenting the Woes

Thanks to the Doc Edge Festival, I was able to attend their opening night film The 7 Years of Lukas Graham, a story about Danish pop sensation Lukas Graham’s lead singer Lukas Forchhammer’s wrestle with fame. It got me thinking about the…
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What is Success for Screen Content?

Go back fifteen years and it was pretty easy to figure out what success was for screen content. For the small screen it was the Nielsen ratings. For the big screen it was the box office. The show that knocked it out of the ratings park or the…
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Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always

I was listening to a podcast this morning in which Eliza Hittman, the director of the feature film Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always was being interviewed. It very clearly highlighted to me that she is a talented filmmaker, although I have yet…
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Director Chantelle Burgoyne: How I Got Started in the Industry

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Growing up in Auckland in the late 80s and 90s, the idea that filmmaking was in my future seemed like an impossible dream. On my mother’s side I come from an Afakasi German-Samoan family that migrated to NZ in 1965 and my father’s side…
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Where To Now?

I’ve been away on holiday for ten days, so have had the opportunity to push anything work-related out of my mind for a time. Arriving back at my desk and engaging in work once more, however, I’m reminded of the considerable challenges…
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Editor Shailesh Prajapati: How I Got Started in the Industry

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Go With The Flow My journey in the film, television, and performing arts industries was unplanned. However, my instincts have worked towards goals and dreams with a "Go with the flow" attitude. One day, I visited a dance academy called Darpana…
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It’s Finally Here—The Screen Industry Workers Act

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The Governor General recently gave the Royal Assent to the Screen Industry Workers Bill, making it an Act that will come into force on 30 December 2022. I know I’ve said it before, but I am going to say it again: “This is the single…
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The Tortoise and the Hare

Select committee oral submissions are underway on the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill, which will ultimately become the act for the new entity ANZPM, combining TVNZ and RNZ. There were 892 written submissions on the Bill. It was introduced…
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3 Language Tips for Directing Intimacy

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So much of directing is communication. What language do I use with actors? What words do I use to communicate my vision to cast and crew? I think it's safe to say that human beings, though, aren't naturally good verbal communicators. We're…
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ANZSE Career Spotlights

Read about the illustrious careers of ANZSE-accredited editors.

A Kōrero With…

In this guest blog series, we speak to screen professionals to find out more about their job and what most people might not know, including those working in the industry. This blog offers an inside look into different parts of the industry and offers insights into how directors and editors can be successful in the collaborative process of their mahi.

How I Got Started in the Industry

In this guest blog series, our members reflect on how they made their way into assistant editing, editing, and directing—with no two stories the same. They offer advice for those starting out.