Ant Timpson, a self-confessed “filmhead” who has spent over 25 years encouraging and enabling kiwis to watch, make and love movies, has been awarded the inaugural ART Creative Entrepreneur of 2012 at a gala event at Auckland’s Floating Pavilion…

It’s time to enroll in cinematic boot camp. The V48HOURS Furious Filmmaking competition is back for 2012 – a milestone year for the competition that marks its 10th anniversary of movie mayhem…

London-based New Zealand producer, Lizzie Gillett (The Age of Stupid), will visit New Zealand in early March for a series of talks hosted by Women in Film and Television (WIFT) and supported by the New Zealand Film Commission…

The NZ Film Commission and the executive producers of the Premiere Shorts funding scheme for 2012 confirm that the following projects have received a green light for funding of up to $90,000 each…

At yesterday’s 84th Academy Awards ceremony, Wellington entertainer Bret McKenzie won Best Original Song for ‘Man or Muppet’ from The Muppets movie…

Invited to Bangkok to look at the prospect of greater links between the Thai and New Zealand screen sectors, Wellington-based film and entertainment lawyer Michael Stephens encountered a thriving screen industry and some Kiwi connections already in place…

The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum is at first place this week, taking $384,989 for a two week total of $1,003,944…

TVNZ is planning a big budget local production of the entertainment show, NZ’s Got Talent…

At the invitation of Sir Richard Taylor’s children’s entertainment company, Pukeko Pictures, a delegation of nine senior executives from China’s Guandong Zhujiang Film and Media Corporation, SASA Cinema, Guangzhou Exchange Services Group, Asian Road Club and Grand Entertainment are visiting New Zealand this week…

Fighting Chance Films (Aus) and Brothers Young Pictures (NZ) today announced principal photography is underway on their new feature Sunday…

The 62nd Berlin international Film Festival has awarded a Crystal Bear to New Zealand short film Meathead, for Best Short Film in the Youth Jury Generation 14plus section. Writer/director Sam Holst was in Berlin to receive the award…

Since its online launch last week, the trailer for Two Little Boys, directed by Robert Sarkies and based on the book by Duncan Sarkies, has had over 100,000 views on YouTube…

The humble gumboot will be the star in the Tropfest New Zealand short film competition…

Romantic drama The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, debuts at number one with $618,955…

The University of Otago and NHNZ Moving Images have signed a research agreement that could revolutionise production footage logging practices and footage archives around the globe…

Canon New Zealand has announced the appointment of A2Z Technologies as a Canon authorised dealer in the New Zealand market for the recently announced EOS C300/C300 PL Digital Video Camcorder, for high-resolution motion picture production…