Key people from New Zealand’s film and photographic industries enjoyed a unique meeting with renowned British filmmaker and Canon enthusiast, Philip Bloom, at a series of Canon C300 workshops held in Auckland and Wellington last week…

Helen Martin reviews Te Hono ki Aotearoa, screening at the World Cinema Showcase…

Teen fiction adaptation The Hunger Games blasts in at number one with $2,064,266, followed by British comedy-drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ($1,034,144)…

Jim Marbrook spent three years travelling the country, filming former institutions, most of which are now derelict and decaying – Seacliffe, Cherry Farm, Oakley, Ngawhatu, Sunnyside, Porirua, Tokanui and the egregious Lake Alice – in the company of two former psychiatric patients…

The ALEXA Studio features a quiet, adjustable mirror shutter and an optical viewfinder that provides a real-time, high contrast image with true colours…

Emerging filmmakers from New Zealand and around the world will put their work on show next month, with the launch of a new student film festival…

Upcoming events at Media Design School include CG Animation Pipelines For Television and 3D Printing Weekend Workshop…

Heralded as an international flop, John Carter – based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars – was the number one film in NZ last week, ahead of Marvel's Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance and the highly regarded My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams…

New Zealand short films 43,000 Feet and Whakatiki are to have their World Premiere’s at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York…

Shooting began this week on Medicine Woman, a new feature film from South Pacific Pictures (Whale Rider, Sione’s Wedding, Sione’s 2, My Wedding & Other Secrets), based on the novella by Witi Ihimaera…

Pre-production commences this month on Shopping, the much anticipated debut feature film from award-winning filmmakers Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland. The film will be shot on the Kapiti Coast and in Wellington, New Zealand from mid-April…

Fresh Shorts is part of the talent development programme run by the New Zealand Film Commission to allow emerging filmmakers to engage with the New Zealand Film Commission and provide funding for their short narrative films. As the Fresh Shorts Assistant you will be administering the Fresh Shorts applications process and providing support to the selection panel…

Pukeko Pictures, known for international children’s hits The WotWots and Jane and the Dragon as well as being the affiliate television company of Richard Taylor’s Weta Workshop, has announced a first look deal* with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) to produce scripted content along with the appointment of Adam Fratto as Executive Vice President, Development…

From conception to direction to cinematography to sound design to musical score to editing to participation of its subjects, this brilliant, artful documentary is the result of the combined efforts of many extremely talented and creative people. It is also, unmistakably, a film to ensure Annie Goldson remains among the roll call of the world’s most consummate documentary filmmakers…

An exciting opportunity has arisen to manage the film collateral for the New Zealand Film Commission…

The New Zealand Film Commission is pleased to present in Auckland and Wellington, an evening ‘In Conversation’ with Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) director Mark Woods…