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What Can We Take From The Strikes?

By the time you read this the Writer’s Guild of America’s (WGA) strike will be over. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' (AFTRA)—not yet. So what can we take from the strikes? I saw…
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Set Education

I’ve just come off a Zoom with a bunch of articulate and intelligent students pursuing careers in the screen industry. It prompted me to write about the ongoing work happening around the reform of vocational education that DEGANZ is engaged…
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Director Mia Maramara: How I Got Started in the Industry

Looking back, I would say that my life’s theme is, “There are no wasted moments." It’s a lesson I have clung to working in the film industry, where there are all sorts of twisty roads lined with the bloated corpses of dead passion projects…
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What’s The Benefit For Me?

I went to a Screen Industry Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand (SIGANZ) membership drive event last night. And this morning I read a blog post out of the US about the effort to establish an independent producers union. SIGANZ, like DEGANZ and…
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A Sustainable Career

For those of us in the industry we can’t help but be aware of the writers' and actors’ strikes in the US, not only because of the impact it’s having on international productions coming into New Zealand but also because of the issues being…
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Editor Te Rurehe Paki: How I Got Started in the Industry

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I've always been a tinkerer. Growing up, I spent most of my time drawing, carving, and making things. I would pick up the tools and teach myself by doing, feeling my way through it. As an editor, it's something I still do to this day. My career…
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Welcome Back!

"It’s bleak out there," I’ve been saying to myself as I look out the office window each day at the weather… for weeks now. And frankly, the New Zealand screen industry at this point in time isn’t much better. The interminable New…
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An Update on SIWA

Over the last two and a half months, we have been having educational evenings on the Screen Industry Workers Act (SIWA) across four sub-sectors: Advertising & Marketing Content Factual & Entertainment Scripted Film - Narrative…
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Where’s The Work?

While everyone angsts about what the New Zealand Film Commission is or isn’t up to—and frankly I still don’t know either—I thought I’d take a look at the work situation for directors and editors with television/platform content. Now…
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Editor Francis Glenday: How I Got Started in the Industry

My earliest, real childhood memory is being about 3 years old. I’m sitting in front of an electric heater, one of the old fireplace-mounted ones. It has two bright orange electric resistors. In my left hand, I have a toy; a silver metal cowboy…
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TVNZ Spotlights Our Media Mess… Again

The financial woes besetting TVNZ with a projected loss of at least $28 million, again highlight the inaction of the current government to address the issues with broadcasting, brought about by the severe negative impact international…
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Director Hweiling Ow: How I Got Started in the Industry

A forty-five-second short horror film, garnering 16 million views online, propelled me into a dream I didn’t know I desired. Life is a game of random chances. You put in the work and hope the universe aligns. For me, the creative professions…
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New Zealand Film Is Alive And Well

I watched Loren Taylor’s directorial debut The Moon Is Upside Down the other night. For me, it’s a well-crafted film with quirky characters, very smart dialogue (both scripted and improvised), and comedy and depth in abundance,…
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A Sigh of Relief for Domestic and International

With the Youth-focused funding announced yesterday by NZ On Air, and the joint announcement of Scripted funding by NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho to a combined total of over $15 million dollars, there was an audible sigh of relief heard on the…
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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.