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Sadly, Kelly Lucas has moved on from her long-term role as sales manager for ONFILM & The Databook to look at new opportunities. She will be greatly missed by her clients and contacts — some who’ve become close friends — as she will be by the magazine and publishing team. She wished us to pass […]
The Palm Springs International Short Film Festival has selected Louise Leitch’s latest short, Blankets, for their (Sur)Real Life programme. The film screens on Sunday 23rd June at the festival venue — Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs — along with films from Poland, Spain and the USA. Director Louise Leitch and team will attend the screening to represent the film. […]
Development Executive – New Zealand Film Commission Are you passionate about filmmaking? Do you have experience in script development as well as excellent organisational and interpersonal skills? Established to encourage New Zealand filmmaking by an Act of Parliament in 1978, the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) provides loans and equity financing to New Zealand filmmakers […]
Tom and Sumner Burtsyn (known for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary This Way of Life) won the top prize at Toronto’s Hot Docs Pitch Forum earlier this month with their proposal for their new film Some Kind of Love. The pitching session generated a lot of interest and has propelled the film several stages closer to production. More […]
The six finalists for the New Zealand International Film Festival’s Best Shorts competition have been announced and they feature a 50–50 split between male and female directors. Alison Maclean’s selection includes films by Oscar Kightley (Tom’s Dairy), Walter Lawry (Blind Mice), Dan Kircher (Interim) and three films directed by women better known as actors: Lauren Jackson’s […]
Following last week’s release of the NZ On Air 2013–2016 Statement of Intent, the Film Commission has issued theirs. With the Government review of the sector ongoing, they have made no startling announcements of new initiatives instead stressing business as usual for the remainder of 2013 and 2014. The full 33 page pdf is available now.
A Spirit of Independence with Jake Mahaffy EVENT: TUES 28 MAY 2013, 7:30–8:30pm, The Classic For our May Writer’s Room we are joined by innovative US filmmaker Jake Mahaffy, whose shorts and microbudget features have screened in A-list festivals all over the world. His project War, which he wrote, directed and produced, screened at Sundance in 2004, and […]
