Directors and actors got the chance to play at Rehearsal & Performance in the weekend. Taking part were DEGNZ directors Aidee Walker, Louise Tu’u, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh and Ellen Jones-Poole. They were joined by a great group of actors from Equity NZ – Simone Walker, Ariki Erby, Serena Cotton, Nicol Munro, Narelle Ahrens, Jarred Blakiston, Anthea Hill […]
Our first Seresin wine tasting and networking evening marked DEGNZ’s final Screenlink event for the year. Seresin Estate, founded in 1992 in Marlborough by New Zealand cinematographer Michael Seresin, has been a supporter of the Guild for several years. Pair that with some really excellent and not your typical New Zealand wines (for instance, although many people steer clear from […]
DEGNZ launched its new Young Creators initiative with its first event Before You Say Yes to Web Series. Young Creators is a programme of events with a mission to inform and inspire younger or emerging directors and editors to build successful, sustainable careers in the screen industry. The Young Creators initiative will be more career […]
Congratulations to former Guild President Peter Roberts who took home the Craft Award for Best Editing: Drama for Jean at the New Zealand Television Awards. The finalists in the remaining categories were also announced at the Craft Awards ceremony on Wednesday. Congrats to all the finalists and to our members in the running: Best Director: Multi Camera Mitchell Hawkes Vodafone New […]
Join us for a special Rialto Newmarket screening of Human Traces, the debut feature from DEGNZ member Nic Gorman, which was selected for the New Zealand, Melbourne and Toronto film festivals. When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the island. Afterwards, […]