Calling for actors and directors/writers with scripts for a Table Read on Saturday 18 May!
Round 2 opens on 15 April and closes 10 May.
A core cast โ max six actors โ together with a writer+director team OR writer/director will collaborate on each script-in-development table read. The script must have a director attached and have been through a development process.
Four Table Reads per year on Saturdays @NZWG HQ in Grey Lynn.
How to Submit a Script
DEGNZ and NZWG members are invited to apply for the script component.
Submit a full-length draft feature film script for your name to go into the draw for a day-long table read (names remain for subsequent draws).
A solo Writer/Director must be a member of both NZWG and DEGNZ.
In a Writer-Director team, the Writerย must be a member of NZWG, ANDย the Director must be a member of DEGNZ.
When you enter, please include this information:
name of writer, and if they belong to NZWG
name of director, and if they belong to DEGNZ
Call for Actors for Table Read #2
We are looking for actors to work together with writers and directors on a script-in-development table read. Actors must be members ofย Equity New Zealand.
Actors, please register your interest below and the NZWG will contact you if you are cast. You will receive a Prezzy card as a nominal appreciation for your participation.
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2019 Table Reads
Table Read #1
Open: 21 January Close: 15 February Tableย Read:ย Sat 23 February
Table Read #2
Open: 15 April Close: 10 May Tableย Read:ย Sat 18ย May
Table Read #3
Open: 8 July Close: 2 August Tableย Read:ย Sat 10 August
โTable Read #4
Open: 21 October Close: 15 November Tableย Read:ย Sat 23 November
Join Editor Jonno Woodford-Robinson and 1st Assistant Editor Dan Best for the rare chance to have an informal look inside the engine room of a multi million dollar VFX heavy feature. Jonno and Dan will be chatting with Annie Collins over coffee and croissants about handling the logistics involved, the big editorial team required, media walkabout, the skills, the deadlines. The highs and lows of big projects, and surviving a long, long timeframe.
WHEN:ย ย Sat 4 May, 11AM – 12:30PM WHERE:ย Random Group – The Hub, 43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, Wellington
RSVP Essential
This free event is open to DEGNZ members only and spaces are limited. Email tema@deganz.co.nz by Thursday 2 May to RSVP.
The Rehearsal & Performance series provides regular opportunities for directors and actors to practise their craft. Each workshop brings in an experienced moderator to guide participants as they explore a workshop scene in groups (one director, two actors) in a safe and non-pressured environment.
Our next round is happening in Christchurch with director and past Rehearsal & Performance moderator Simon Bennett.
When: Sat 11 May, 9am โ 2pm Where: Rangi Ruru Girlsโ School, 59 Hewitts Road, Merivale, Christchurch
Moderator
Simon Bennett / photo courtesy of Amanda Billing.
Simon Bennett has worked extensively as a stage and screen director and producer since graduating from Toi Whakaari in 1988. In 1995, he moved into television work: first directing, then producing Shortland Street.
In the years since, Simonโs directing highlights have included five seasons ofย Outrageous Fortuneย (for which he won an Achievement in Directing award in the 2007 Air NZ Screen Awards),ย Sioneโs 2: Unfinished Business,ย The Almighty Johnsons,ย andย Spies and Lies.
Preparation
Selected directors and actors will be expected to do some script prep beforehand. DEGNZ will provide the scene at least one week in advance.
Register your interest
Spots are limited to four directors and eight actors. If your name is selected, DEGNZ will contact you directly to confirm your participation. Only members of DEGNZ and Equity NZ are eligible to register.
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CANCELLED: Unfortunately, DEGNZ can no longer hold the event on this date. We apologise for any inconveniences caused.
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Writer Rochelle Bright discusses Kiwi musical Daffodils and the process of adapting her critically acclaimed stage play for the screen. Here’s a snippet from the Q&A. On finding whose story it was:
“I think what makes the script a little bit different is it’s completely structured by the songs, and so the songs kind of force the storytelling and whose role it is quite a bit. But we had so many discussions throughout where we’d go back and forward between Eric and Rose.” – Rochelle Bright
Directed by David Stubbs and produced by Richard Fletcher, Daffodils is a bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of iconic New Zealand songs, including tracks by Crowded House, LIPS, Bic Runga, and Dave Dobbyn.
Leaving her dying fatherโs bedside, singer Maisie rushes to perform at an indie music gig in town. But as she sings the opening song, itโs hard for her to ignore the heartfelt story sheโs just been told โ the story of how her dad met and fell in love with her mother, and how it all devastatingly fell apart.
This event was part of theย Film Talk Series, presented by DEGNZ and Rialto Cinemas in Auckland.
DEGNZ is thrilled to announce the selection of the Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator participants for 2019.
Once again we have a stellar group of women directors who have shown considerable talent in their areas of endeavor. We look forward to welcoming them to the Incubator, which is designed to provide them with information, knowledge and networks so that they can advance their projects and professional skills, with the aim of seeing them go on to sustainable careers as directors.
This is the third year that DEGNZ has run the Incubator, made possible with the financial assistance of the New Zealand Film Commission and Vista Foundation.
The participants for 2019:
ANNA DUCKWORTH has a Bachelor of Communications Studies, Major in Video Production, Minor in Advertising from AUT University. Sheโs worked in film and television for almost a decade in both New York City and Auckland. Her focus early on was Producing, but she has recently moved her focus to writing and directing.
Anna wrote and directed three self-funded short films: Fomo (2011), Full Disclosure (2016) and Mum Jeans (2017), which screened at the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival.
After working as a script advisor on not-safe-for-work feminist web series Psusy, Anna was invited to direct season 2, which went on to screen at New Orleans Film Festival, Seattle Webfest, DC Webfest, Melbourne Web Series Festival and won the Best Episodic Jury Prize at the 2018 LA Film Festival.
In 2018, Anna was granted production funding for two projects as writer/director. The first was an NZFC Fresh Short film Pain. The second was part of the TVNZ New Blood initiative, Butt Dial, a six-part web series.
Anna has twice won Best Director at 48Hours Competition, with her team being three time National Finalists.
MARINA ALOFAGIAย MCCARTNEY was born and raised in Manukau City, New Zealand. From a Geordie father, Samoan mother and Cook Islands step-mother, she is powerfully aware of her cultural heritage, how this affects the way we are viewed and how we view others. โฏAfter just over a decade in the fashion industry, as Miss New Zealand and one of the few fashion models of Pacific descent, she returned to the University of Auckland to study film and graduated with a MA (First Class Honours).
She is an award-winning filmmaker with films featuring in over 30 festivals, including Palm Springs ShortFest, NZโs Best Short Film in the NZ International Film Festival, ImagiNATIVE, Hawaiโi International Film Festival and the NZ Script Writer Awards.โฏ Her latest film Vai, a portmanteau feature film made with another 8 Pacific female writer and directors, is currently doing the festival rounds, opening the NATIVe section at the 2019 Berlinale, SXSW and Mฤoriland with other festivals to follow.
Marina is an experienced teaching fellow, formally based at Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, and her academic areas of expertise are Pacific Studies, Pacific filmmaking, Pacific representation on screen and representations of the Pacific woman.โฏ She is also a PhD candidate exploring Pacific filmmaking at AUT University, proud mother to her daughter, Alena Sevai, and is currently working on her feature film, The Return.
JESSICA SANDERSONย is a director from a design and theatre background. Of Mฤori and Pฤkehฤ descent, the varied lives of her family influence the stories she tells โ the majority of which are about the people of Aotearoa and the wider Pacific.
Jessica has a Bachelor of Performance Design, a joint degree from both Massey University and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, which has influenced the strong visual and conceptual approach she applies to her projects. She has created music videos for some of Aotearoaโs most prolific artists, including; Aaradhna, Shapeshifter, Stan Walker, Tama Waipara, Ria Hall, Kora and more.
Jessica has recently finished her first short film Ways To See, funded by the New Zealand Film Commission and produced by her long-time collaborator Desray Armstrong (Sandy Lane Productions). She is currently directing an eight-part documentary television series called Moko produced by Velvestsone Media and is in script development for a feature film Wai.
CLAIRE VAN BEEK is a writer/director from Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. After graduating from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School with a Bachelor in Performing Arts, Claire worked on TVย commercials with Jake Scott (Alien, Welcome to the Rileys) and Garth Davis (Lion, Top of the Lake) as well as writing and acting for theatre. After becoming a “NZ Young Playwright of the Year” Claire moved into film.
Recently, Claire travelled to Portland to work with Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) on Debra’s latest film Leave No Traceย before returning to Aotearoa to shoot her NZFC Fresh Shorts funded film DANIEL, edited by Oscar winner John Gilbert (Lord of the Rings, Hacksaw Ridge).
Claire’s โฏfocus is on female-centric, visually distinctive stories. โฏShe is currently in preparation for her next films Black Camelย (Fresh Short finalist), The Mill and The Milkman, and is in development for her first feature.
URSULA WILLIAMS gained a Bachelor of Communications (majoring in television directing) and Honours in Documentary Film at AUT University.
She went on to direct and produceโฏย The King, โฏa short documentary film, as a part of her Master’s thesis (taking first-class honours). The King won the audience award at the NZIFF for best short and showcased at the Sydney Film Festival 2016. The same year, Ursula won the Inaugural Bright Sunday Emerging Pasifika Director Award with this film at the Wฤiroa Maori Film Festival.
In 2017, Ursula produced and directed selectedโฏย Surreal Estateโฏ for Loading Docs (2017), and for the WIRELESS Aupito – The High Chief, which picked up a bronze at the NZ Cinematographer Awards.
Ursula currently works for VICE New Zealand. Her most recent documentaryโฏย Deportees of Tonga: Gangsterโs in Paradise, has so far been viewed by over five million people worldwide one month after release. The series Zealandia, which she also produced and directed, has been picked up by networks globally, and received more than 10 million views. Zealandia was nominated for an array of awards including โฏBest News Video, Best Feature Video, Best Editorial Feature โฏand โฏBest Team Video โฏat New Zealandโs 2019 Voyager Media Awards.
How to Submit a Script
