Tag Archive for: Catalyst

Jack Woon’s Let’s Settle This Gets Catalyst Funding

Congratulations to DEGANZ member Jack Woon on receiving NZFC Catalyst funding for his short film, Let’s Settle This.

The film’s logline: Two Kung fu masters meet in a Chinese diner via a dating app. They must settle the bill – and an ancient vendetta – to consummate their fateful encounter.

Jack will write and direct, with DEGANZ board member Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa producing alongside his sister, Abba-Rose Dinah Vaiaoga-Ioasa.

Catalyst He Kauahi supports New Zealand filmmakers to progress their talents to the next stage and make exceptional, high end narrative short films that will ignite the flame and be the catalyst for change in their career. Teams have been funded $100,000 to go towards their short film and towards the development of the feature film concept.

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DEGANZ Alumna Receives NZFC Catalyst Funding

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DEGANZ Incubator alumna Marina Alofagia McCartney has received funding for her project The Return. The short film follows Lupesina who answers the call from her ancestors, and must prove her worthiness as a Samoan woman or stay stuck in the in-between.

Congratulations, Marina! She is the first woman writer/director of Moana Pasifika heritage to secure Catalyst funding in over a decade and the majority of the creative HOD’s on The Return are of Moana Pasifika descent too.

Catalyst He Kauahi supports NZ filmmakers to progress their talents to the next stage and make exceptional, high end narrative short films. The NZFC have funded three teams a total of $100,000 each ($90,000 towards their short film and $10,000 towards development of the feature film concept). Marina’s team are currently developing a feature that will continue the poetic character exploration of a NZ-born Samoan woman’s identity journey.

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