Canterbury Television chairman Nick Smith and Maori Television chief executive Jim Mather have announced that the full Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service will screen live on both channels on February 22…
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Posted on January 27th, 2012
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business tops the box office rankings with a million dollar plus week – taking $984,058 and an additional sum of $49,279 from previews last week…
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Posted on January 26th, 2012
The MacGuffin in the popular and successful Sione’s Wedding (2006) turned on the highly unlikely notion that a bunch of troublesome Samoan friends would be permitted to attend an important wedding only if they were each accompanied by a woman with whom they were in a serious relationship…
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Posted on January 25th, 2012
Television advertising revenue rose by 1.9% in 2011, says industry body ThinkTV…
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Posted on January 25th, 2012
Local distributors are taking issue with the claim by Vikram Kumar of the Internet Society of New Zealand that “Hollywood has made up its mind to give it to us six months or two years late…
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Posted on January 24th, 2012
Despite receiving poor reviews in mainstream press, Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business debuted at number one last weekend…
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Posted on January 24th, 2012
Fujifilm Corporation has been awarded an Academy Award (Scientific and Engineering) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the development of ETERNA-RDS, a black-and-white recording film designed for the long-term preservation and archiving of motion picture films…
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012
The New Zealand box office for 2011 totalled $161.8 million, a nine per cent drop from the 2010 box office take, the Motion Picture Distributors’ Association (MPDA) announced today…
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012
Maori Television will screen the free-to-air premiere of Manurewa, an award-winning short film based on the 2008 murder of Manurewa liquor store owner Navtej Singh, at 10.30pm on Waitangi Day, 6 February, 2012…
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012
Women make fantastic cinematographers and yet currently we only have three in NZ. Ginny Loane, Jac Fitzgerald and Mairi Gunn will talk about their experinces as DoPs, answer questions and join in a discussion about women as DoPs and the challenges that come with the profession…
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Posted on January 20th, 2012
Moves by NZ On Air to question the timing of the broadcast of documentary Inside Child Poverty and then to seek to legal advice on controlling the scheduling of programmes “likely to be an election issue” is counter to their politically neutral position, says the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand…
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Posted on January 20th, 2012
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows holds the top spot this week on $781,625, for a total box office of $2,326,904 over two weeks…
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Posted on January 20th, 2012
BBC Knowledge and Spada are once again inviting young factual producers under 30 years old to submit concepts for one of five short-form grants of AU$5000…
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Posted on January 20th, 2012
New Zealand filmmakers have an opportunity to work on projects with one of the fastest growing screen industries in the world, says Film Auckland’s Michael Brook…
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Posted on January 19th, 2012
Emma Kelly listens in to a new radio programme about the late Jonathan Dennis, founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive/Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua…
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Posted on January 19th, 2012
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival has invited three NZ short films to compete in its prestigious line up – Lambs, directed by Sam Kelly, Meathead by Sam Holst and Snow in Paradise by Justine Simei-Barton and Nikki Si’ulepa…
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Posted on January 19th, 2012
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