South Pacific Pictures’ productions My Wedding and Other Secrets and Wild Coasts were this week named amongst the World’s Best Television and Films winners at the 2012 New York Festivals…

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…

TV3 viewers can look forward to a second season of South Pacific Pictures’ hit drama series The Almighty Johnsons.  Funding for a series two has received the green light from NZ On Air…

South Pacific Pictures, in association with Script to Screen, is launching the South Pacific Pictures Emerging Writers’ Lab.
 
John Barnett, Chief Executive Officer of South Pacific Pictures says: “The South Pacific Pictures Emerging Writers’ Lab is a terrific opportunity for aspiring writers to gain first-hand experience from some of New Zealand’s top drama writers and creators…

An Outrageous Fortune star’s outrageous turn as a wartime Kiwi con man proved to be the highest-rating Sunday Theatre drama of the past four weeks – even though it started midway through a top-rating movie on TV2.
And while it wasn’t widely reviewed, the telemovie was well received by two key reviewers: The Listener’s Fiona Rae and The Dominion Post’s Linda Burgess.

Hats off to all involved (co-creators Rachel Lang and James Griffin, South Pacific Pictures, writers, actors, production team) for getting everything so right. Cleverly, the West’s world always seemed simultaneously larger than life yet rooted, both literally and metaphorically, in reality…

Outrageous Fortune fans mourning the final farewell to New Zealand’s most successful drama series last night have had a reprieve – the secrets of the West family are being laid bare in a major exhibition at Auckland Museum.
Outrageous Fortune: The Exhibition, which opens on December 15, has been developed in partnership with the production company South Pacific Pictures to give a behind-the-scenes look into the West family’s world.

MediaWorks surprised media and ad agencies in Wellington this morning when it revealed TV3 and C4 would be targeting older demographics next year.
TV3 will seek to seize the 25-54 year-olds mantle from a struggling TV One while C4, which will be rebranded FOUR, is to become a big-gun entertainment channel with its sights fixed on 18-49 year-olds.

My Wedding and Other Secrets, the latest film from South Pacific Pictures, makers of Whale Rider and Sione’s Wedding, is set for nationwide New Zealand release on Thursday March 17, 2011.
A Romeo and Juliet story with a Kiwi-Asian twist, the film is a romantic comedy that’s based on the real-life cross cultural romance of first-time feature film writer/director Roseanne Liang.

Two local commissions will screen in TV One’s new season of Sunday Theatre.
The premier drama slot returns on September 19 after being off-air for most of the year and, while still to be scheduled, confirmed for the slot are the NZ-made Spies and Lies and Nights in the Garden of Spain.

TV3 is using the 10th anniversary edition of Survivor to try to take some of the ratings gloss off TV2’s Go Girls. The good keen Kiwi chick hit has boosted its popularity in the two weeks following its premiere, which rated below its first-season average.