DEGANZ member Matthew Saville was recently selected for and attended the inaugural Square Peg Social, a four-day networking and mentorship event helmed by director Ari Aster and producer Lars Knudsen, the team behind renowned films such as Midsommar, Hereditary, and Beau is Afraid. The event took place in Austin, Texas, where 35 chosen filmmakers from […]
Local feature, Kōkā, edited by DEGANZ member Te Rurehe Paki, won the 2025 Network for the Promotion of Asian-Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) Award at the 45th annual Hawai’i International Film Festival (HIFF) in late October. Writer/Director Kath Akuhata-Brown and Producer Verity Mackintosh were there in person to accept the award at the private ceremony held in […]
DEGANZ members scooped up a multitude of awards at the 2025 NZ Web Fest Awards on Sunday, 23 November. This year, 15 projects from members were selected, with 12 of them nominated for awards in writing, directing, editing and more. Congratulations to the award nominees and winners! NZ Short Fiction Films Constance Best Writing Writer/Director: Jayde […]
DEGANZ board member and award-winning filmmaker, Rebecca Tansley‘s latest feature documentary, Tenor: My Name is Pati, is coming to cinemas in March 2026. The documentary charts the against-the-odds journey of Pene and Amitai, two of the world’s leading opera singers, from their original family home in Samoa and childhood in South Auckland through to the […]
This week’s DEGANZ Watch List features Māori stories on both the big and small screen. While local drama web series Ahikāroa is heating up with its seventh season, new docuseries, Earth Oven with Temuera Morrison, digs deep to explore how indigenous cultures from around the globe have used thermal cooking. Meanwhile, if you missed the […]